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Letters to John Morgan

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 451
Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence John Morgan received from medical and political colleagues during the American Revolution. Correspondents include Williams Smibert, James Finlay, Edward Rutledge, William Eustis, Jonathan Trumbull, Benjamin Rush, and Waldron Dumond.

Dates: 1769-1795
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Lewis Condict letter to Franklin Bache

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/188
Scope and Contents

Condict discusses plans for 1840 National Medical Convention to revise U.S. Pharmacopoeia and encourages participation of apothecaries and pharmaceutical organizations.

Dates: 1832-06-29
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Library exhibition labels

 Collection
Identifier: CPP 13/009-01
Abstract Established in 1788, the Library of the College of Physicians served as Philadelphia's central medical library for over 150 years, serving medical schools, hospitals, physicians and other health professionals. Today, it is an independent research library devoted to the history of medicine and serves hundreds of scholars, health professionals, students and popular writers each year. This collection, Library exhibtion labels, dates from the 1960s through 1997, although the bulk of the...
Dates: circa 1960s - 1997; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1975
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Lily G. H. Pridgeon surgical casebook

 Item
Identifier: 10b 18
Scope and Contents

One volume ([7], 130 leaves) of surgical cases presented by John B. Roberts at the Woman’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Cases are dated 1 Oct. 1897 to 15 Apr. 1898. Preliminary leaves include general rules for operations and subject indexes of diagnoses and operations.

Dates: 1897 - 1898
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Lisabeth Holloway collection of biographical information on physicians

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/290
Scope and Contents Collection contains assembled biographical and educational data on physicians and surgeons, 1663-1977; bulk of information concerns regular, homeopathic, and eclectic American 19th century practitioners. Collection includes photocopies of published alumni catalogues and directories, course announcements, membership directories, and miscellaneous sources. Series 1.1 contains lists of alumni and matriculants, 1749-1955, with folder of information on Americans attending foreign medical schools,...
Dates: 1663 - 1977
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

List of Alvarenga Prize entries

 Item
Identifier: CPP 1/011
Abstract This volume dates from 1920 through 1933, and contains lists of entries for the annual Alvarenga Prize essay, as well as the winner. Each entry includes the title of the essay, its "motto," the author's name, and the status - either destroyed, returned, or "won prize."The Alvarenga Prize was established in 1887 or 1888, when Associate Fellow Da Costa Alvarenga of Lisbon, Portugal, left the College approximately $4000.00 to fund an annual prize in his name. The essay could be on...
Dates: 1920-1933
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

List of exchange accounts of the Library

 Collection
Identifier: CPP 13/016-01
Dates: circa 1889-1915
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

List of monetary contributions to the catalogue revision

 Item
Identifier: CPP 13/010-05
Abstract

Previously catalogued as 10a 310.

Dates: 14 December 1905
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

List of physicians of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/218
Scope and Contents

Document, circa 1797, written in hand of Benjamin Duffield, listing twenty-one physicians who are members of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Reverse contains list, written in hand of Caspar Wistar, of twelve physicians who are not members of the College. Internal evidence indicates list compiled after William Annan became a member, June 1796, and before his death on 4 Oct. 1797.

Dates: circa 1797
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

List of portraits, engravings, busts, statues, and curios displayed in the various rooms and halls of the College

 Item
Identifier: CPP 10/008-04
Abstract The Library Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia became a standing committee in 1834. The by-laws of this year state that the Library Committee “shall attend to the increase and preservation of the Library...they shall purchase books and carry into effect all such regulations pertaining to the Library...and shall present a report upon its condition.” At this time, the chairman of the Library Committee acted as the Librarian of the College. In 1863, the Office of the...
Dates: 1897-1915
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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Correspondence 355
Minutes 110
Lecture notes 106
Reports 91
Financial records 78
Photographs 69
Clippings 50
Speeches (documents) 38
Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 37
Medicine -- Practices 36
Committees 35
Ledgers (account books) 34
Typescripts 34
Annual reports 33
Essays 33
Lectures 33
Materia Medica 30
Patient records 29
Medical libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 28
Daybooks 27
Manuscripts (documents) 26
Obstetrics 24
Anatomy 23
Patients 23
Recipes 23
Surgery 23
Diaries 21
Medicine -- Practice -- Accounting 20
Publications (documents) 19
Certificates 18
Pathology 17
Physiology 17
Research notes 17
Admission tickets 16
Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 16
Genealogies (histories) 15
Membership records 15
Physicians -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 15
Scrapbooks 15
Bylaws (administrative records) 14
Chemistry 14
Library catalogs 14
Prescriptions 14
Fellows 13
Medical illustration 13
Medical museums 13
Casebooks 12
Medical societies 12
Programs (documents) 12
Smallpox -- Vaccination 12
Special events 12
Women in medicine 12
Yellow Fever 12
Awards 11
Biography files 11
Dissection 11
Memorandums 11
Philadelphia (Pa.) 11
Physicians 11
Administrative records 10
Anatomical abnormalities 10
Collections management (Libraries) 10
Ephemera 10
Fever 10
Gifts 10
Medical records 10
Pathological museums 10
Phrenology 10
Receipts (financial records) 10
Reprints 10
Vaccination 10
Case studies 9
Catalogs 9
General Surgery 9
Grants 9
Newsletters 9
Articles 8
Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 8
Medicine -- History 8
Midwifery 8
Poetry 8
Public Health 8
Therapeutics 8
Account books 7
Book collecting 7
Clinical notes 7
Deeds 7
Diplomas 7
Finance 7
Gynecology 7
Medical libraries 7
Medical offices -- Nineteenth century 7
Medical schools -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- History 7
Ophthalmologists -- Philadelphia, Pa. 7
Physicians -- Nineteenth century 7
Anti-vaccination movement 6
Autographs 6
Character readings 6
Digestive System Diseases 6
Examinations -- Questions 6
Names
University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine 41
College of Physicians of Philadelphia 40
University of Pennsylvania 40
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library 35
Rush, Benjamin 24
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the President 20
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Secretary 17
Chapman, Nathaniel 16
Jefferson Medical College 16
Philadelphia General Hospital 16
Fisher, Charles Perry 13
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Curator 10
Mütter Museum 10
Wood, George B. (George Bacon) 10
Coxe, John Redman 9
Physick, Philip Syng 9
Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
Osler, William, Sir 8
Dunglison, Robley 7
Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
Hodge, H. Lenox (Hugh Lenox) 7
Leidy, Joseph 7
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 7
Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
Roberts, John Bingham 7
Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 7
Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia 7
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Medical History 6
Mitchell, Silas Weir 6
Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 6
Carson, Joseph 5
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Building Committee 5
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Treasurer 5
Dorsey, John Syng 5
Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
Jackson, Samuel 5
Parrish, Joseph 5
Radbill, Samuel X. 5
United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
University of Edinburgh 5
University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
Ashhurst, Astley Paston Cooper 4
Bache, Franklin 4
Bache, Thomas Hewson 4
Blockley Almshouse 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library Committee 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of Advancement 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Public Health, Preventive, and Industrial Medicine 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Women's Committee 4
Curie, Marie 4
Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr. 4
Gibson, William 4
Hinsdale, Guy 4
Keen, William W. (William Williams) 4
McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
Medical Library Association 4
Mid-Eastern Regional Medical Library Service 4
Pathological Society of Philadelphia 4
Pepper, William 4
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 4
Santee, E. A. (Ephraim A.) 4
Stillé, Alfred 4
Sturgis, Samuel Booth 4
Tyson, James 4
United States. Navy 4
Wistar, Caspar 4
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
Abbe, Robert 3
Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
Anti-Vaccination Society of America 3
Billings, John S. (John Shaw) 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Board of Trustees 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Executive Director 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on General Medicine 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Ophthalmology 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Otolaryngology 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trustees of the Building Fund 3
Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
Hare, Robert 3
Harvard Medical School 3
Hewson, Thomas T. 3
Horner, William E. (William Edmonds) 3
Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John) 3
James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
Jenner, Edward 3
Leverson, Montague R. (Montague Richard), 1830-1925 3
Medical Documentation Service (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena) 3
Micozzi, Marc S. 3
Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley) 3
Muller, George P. (George Paul) 3
Neilson, Thomas R. (Thomas Rundle) 3
Pancoast, Joseph 3
Parke, Thomas 3

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