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Frederick William Sunderman Christmas greeting cards featuring original photographs and poetry
Collection
Identifier: MSS 447
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of Christmas greeting cards created with original photography and poetry by Frederick William Sunderman.
Dates:
1947; 1966-1985; 1995-2002
Surgical Case Records of Presbyterian Hospital
Collection
Identifier: MSS 429
Overview
Presbyterian Hospital was founded in 1871 by the Alliance of Philadelphia Presbyteries as a 45-bed facility on 2.5 acres. The incorporators declared the purpose was “to provide medical and surgical aid and nursing for the sick and disabled...” Care and nursing was granted to the indigent of Philadelphia, funded by donations from individuals and Presbyterian churches, to fulfill its Christian mission. This commitment was renewed in 1952, when the trustees of the Hospital voted against moving...
Dates:
1892-1894
Sylvanus Stall Records of Vir Publishing Company
Collection
Identifier: MSS 441
Overview
Sylvanus Stall (18 October 1847 – 6 November 1915) was a United States Lutheran pastor, most famous for his 1897 sex education and anti-masturbation book What A Young Boy Ought To Know and its many sequels. This book, and others, were part of a series called “Self and Sex,” and were published by Stall’s publishing company, Vir Publishing Company, between 1897 and 1904.The Sylvanus Stall Records of Vir Publishing Company span the years 1899 to 1911, and documents the activities of the...
Dates:
1899-1911
T. Schöninger notes on the lectures of J. M. Chelius
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/205
Scope and Contents
Volume contains notes taken by T. Schöninger on the lectures of J. M. Chelius on ophthalmology and diseases of the eye. Major subjects include cataract and diseases of the conjunctiva.
Dates:
1829
Taunton Lunatic Asylum casebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6/011
Booksellers' description
Patient index included.240 entries with patients' names, family histories, financial status, and mental state. The records contain detailed information about patients' occupations, whether taxes had ever been paid, original depature sites, ships sailed on, time in America, and extensive genealogies. A number died while in the hospital; many were dispersed to different locations. Occasionally, ship's passage was arranged for people to go home. Some records note the prognosis but in...
Dates:
1854 - 1868
Teratology Society records (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 2003-007
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of records of the Teratology Society. Materials include photographs, slides, and postcards from meetings; meeting agendas and programs; council notebooks from 1992 to 1994, which include minutes and committee reports; information on the history of the Society, including reprints of articles from the journal Teratology; items used in an exhibit at the 2003 meeting; an article entitled "Historical Reflections."; a supplement from the third teratology workshop, 1966; and an...
Dates:
1964-2003
Thaddeus Hildreth daybook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/247
Scope and Contents
Daybook of physician practicing in Gardiner, Me., and surrounding Kennebec County area, 1 Dec. 1865-20 June 1874. Internal evidence suggests volume documents medical practice of Thaddeus Hildreth. Several accounts charged for vaccinations and examinations of patients for life insurance companies. Includes farm and household accounts and monthly tallies of charges and fees collected. Includes pension examination reports on Civil War veterans with case histories, 1869-1870.
Dates:
1865 - 1874
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia COVID-19 collection
Collection
Identifier: CPP 22/001
Overview
A collection of websites, crawled by the Internet Archive, focusing on resources created by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the College's "Documenting #COVIDPHL at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia" digital exhibit.About the project:The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) has partnered with Archive-It to develop a public, archived collection of web content relating to...
Dates:
2020-06-08
Theodore F. Breck lecture notes
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/272
Scope and Contents
Theodore F. Breck's lecture notes on skin diseases were taken
at the K. K. Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna, Austria, during
1868 and 1869. The lecturer was dermatologist Ferdinand Hebra
(1816-1880), the author of numerous works on skin diseases.
Hebra's lectures dealt with the identification, classification,
and treatment of skin diseases. Breck's notes also contain
approximately thirty different prescriptions for medicines and
salves to treat diseases of the skin.Also...
Dates:
1868 - 1869
Theodore Woodward collection (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2278
Scope and Contents note
Photographic copies of seven letters from Walter Reed to James Carroll related to the discovery of the mosquito transmission of yellow fever and photographic copies of eight photographs of members of the US Army Yellow Fever Commission.
Dates:
1900-1901
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- Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 6
- Carson, Joseph 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Building Committee 5
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- Tyson, James 4
- United States. Navy 4
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- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trustees of the Building Fund 3
- Curie, Marie 3
- Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
- Dorsey, John Syng 3
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