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Minutes of the Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

 Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/014-01
Scope and Contents

The minutes document the proceedings, reports, and decisions and resolutions adopted by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia’s Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia (1877-1880), 1877 Oct. 20-[1880?] Apr. 17 (pp. 1-47). The volume also includes minutes of the College’s Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia (1888-1890), [1888?] Oct. 25-1889 Nov. 26 (pp. 49-57).

Dates: 1877-1880; 1888-1890
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Minutes of the Library Committee of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

 Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/008-02
Abstract

The Library Committee of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia became a standing committee in 1834. At this time, the chairman of the Library Committee acted as the Librarian of the College. In 1863, the Office of the Librarian was created, and the duties of the Library Committee were reduced to the "general supervision of the Library of the College".

This collection (1951-1981) includes minutes, financial statements, and correspondence.

Dates: 1951 - 1981
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Minutes of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3/003-03
Scope and Contents The volumes contain the minutes and proceedings of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, maintained by the Secretary, from the society's formation 29 September 1857 to 14 October 1869 and 23 April 1887 to 27 June 1901. Included are descriptions of specimens displayed to the society, membership propositions, committee reports, discussions, annual reports of the treasurer, and records of "private sessions", meetings in which the official administrative business of the society was...
Dates: 1857 - 1901
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Minutes of the Section on General Medicine

 Item
Identifier: CPP 12/011-01
Abstract

The Section on General Medicine was established in 1897. Its first Chair was James C. Wilson. The Section was disbanded in 1965.



Previously catalogued as 10a 193.

Dates: 1897-1927
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Minutes of the Section on Ophthalmology of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

 Collection
Identifier: CPP 12/001-02
Scope and Contents The records from the Section on Ophthalmology of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia consist of four volumes (disbound) of minutes, recorded by the clerk, spanning 1913- 1927, 1927-1939, 1940-1952, and 1953-1963. The minutes contain reports on monthly meetings, annual financial statements, lists of members and their addresses, and records of dues. The minute book from 1953-1963 contains an additional mailing list, an agenda for business meetings, and procedural instructions for dinner...
Dates: 1913 - 1963
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Minutes of the Training School for Nurses at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 4/001-02
Abstract The Training School for Nurses at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital opened on 22 Oct. 1890. It was under the direction of a principal and an Executive Committee. This Executive Committee may have developed, in 1915, into the Training School Committee, which had oversight of the education, work, discipline, and living conditions of Hahnemann’s student nurses.Minute book of the Training School Committee, 1915 May 20-1921 Sept. 21. Related correspondence included. Minutes...
Dates: 1915-1921
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Miscellaneous lantern and film slides (unprocessed)

 Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2302
Scope and Contents note This is a collection of medical lantern and film slides. Subjects include: gynecology, obstetrics, and sterility; smallpox; eye movements; electrocardiography; World War I amputees; X-rays; patients with various medical conditions; and images related to a histamine study. The collection also includes several glass plate negatives and film negatives on the history of medicine, consisting largely of portraits of physicians and photographs of medical apparatus; stereoscopic cards on...
Dates: 1910-1976
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Mona Spiegel-Adolf papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/252
Scope and Contents Personal papers and research files of biochemist Mona Spiegel-Adolf, including correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, and laboratory notes. Series 1 contains biographical material and personal journal. Series 2 contains research files, including data, notes, memoranda, tables, and drafts of reports concerning electrophoresis, melanin, steroids, biochemical aspects of Tay-Sachs disease, and vitamins. Includes typescript of Kolloidforschung in der immunbiologie, circa 1930....
Dates: 1930 - 1966
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Museum Council of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley records related to the We the People 200 program (unprocessed)

 Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2299
Scope and Contents note

This is a collection of correspondence and contact information related to the "Passport to the World" program of the We the People 200 celebration. The collection includes letters from government and museum officials in countries (from Algeria to Zimbabwe) to Sandra Choukroun, of We the People 200, as well as information about the program sent by John V. Alviti of the Museum Council of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley to participating Philadelphia institutions.

Dates: 1987
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Mütter Museum x-ray collection

 Collection
Identifier: XRAY
Scope and Contents This collection of x-rays was discovered in the Mütter Museum storage area and inventoried in 2006. It was transferred to the Library on September 22, 2016.All of the x-rays seem to be of specimens found in the Mütter Museum, including the Soap Lady, and fetuses with defects such as spina bifida and anencephaly. No provenance information could be found; however, many of the envelopes note that the x-rays were taken by Dr. Gerald Conlogue in 1991. It is likely that...
Dates: 1987-1991; undated
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Curator 10
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Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
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Leidy, Joseph 7
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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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