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Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/185
Scope and Contents Notes taken by Thomas Shivers, Jr., on lectures of John Syng Dorsey on materia medica and Nathaniel Chapman on practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1817. Bulk concern Dorsey’s lectures (nos. 1-25 in vol. 1 and 26-45 in vol. 2). After discussion of nutrition and disease, Dorsey describes medications and their uses according to arrangement of emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialogogues, emmenagogues, and anthelmintics. Volume 2 contains brief notes...
Dates: 1817
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Thomas Justus Dunott notes on the lectures of Thomas D. Mütter

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/239
Scope and Contents

Student notes by Thomas J. Dunott on surgical lectures of Thomas D. Mütter at Jefferson Medical College, 1852. Notes interleaved with Mütter’s Syllabus of the course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery. Dunott’s notes concern: amputation; diseases and fractures of bones; inflammation; and wounds and injuries, specifically of head and abdomen. Includes occasional notes on John Kearsley Mitchell’s lectures on practice of medicine.

Dates: 1852
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Thomas Parke notebook

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/099
Scope and Contents

Volume of Parke’s notes, 1767, on Pierre Joseph Macquer’s Elements of the theory and practice of chymistry (1764), considering elements and their interactions; Geoffroy’s table of comparative affinities; and metals and their ores. Volume also includes Parke’s notes of examination questions on anatomy and chemistry given to graduates of the College of Philadelphia’s Medical School in 1769. Examiners include Adam Kuhn, John Morgan, and William Shippen.

Dates: 1767 - 1769
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Thomas R. Neilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/021
Scope and Contents This collection of Thomas R. Neilson's papers touches on many areas of the professional career and personal life of this Philadelphia physician, surgeon, and teacher. The bulk of the collection, comprised of professional correspondence and surgical case records, comes from a narrow period of time, 1888 to 1892, years when Neilson was approaching middle age and was well advanced in medical career. His early education, family affairs, and financial situation are also documented....
Dates: 1865 - 1937
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Thomas Ruston papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/137
Scope and Contents This small collection of manuscripts, 1764-1802, documents the education, medical career, and personal life of Thomas Ruston. Items in the collection relating to Ruston's medical education at the University of Edinburgh include notes on two lectures on the pulse delivered by William Cullen with drafts of three letters by Ruston describing his affairs, 1764-1765; petitions signed by the students of the university, protesting the lack of regulations in granting degrees, 1764; and an...
Dates: 1764 - 1802
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Thomas W. Bawdin notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/201
Scope and Contents

Contains notes on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine and John Syng Dorsey on materia medica in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1817 January 7-February 12.

Dates: 1817
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Timothy Hall recipe book

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/285
Scope and Contents

Volume of medical and household recipes of physician Timothy Hall, 1823-1834. Includes notes on use, dosage, and sources of information.

Dates: 1823 - 1834
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Traill Green papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/221
Scope and Contents This collection of the personal papers of Traill Green (1813-1897), spanning 1845 to 1868, consists of correspondence, case descriptions of patients, a committee report, the transcript of a speech, excerpts from published materials, and other miscellaneous items.Series 1, spanning 1845 to 1857, consists of letters written and received by Traill Green, many of which are drafts. Of special interest in the correspondence are Green's letters pertaining to the remains of a...
Dates: 1845 - 1868
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Travel diary and other writings [anonymous]

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/178
Scope and Contents This small collection contains the holograph diary of the physician from his 1910-1911 voyage to Arabia, India, and Africa, as well as the itinerary from his 1929 voyage to Sweden and Poland, and a few poems.The 1910-1911 diary contains the physician's account of his experiences and sights on his journey from Philadelphia, across the Atlantic and Mediterranean to Egypt, around Arabia and through the Persian Gulf to India, around the coast of Africa, and back across the...
Dates: 1910 - 1911
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Truman G. Schnabel, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 380
Abstract The Truman G. Schnabel, Jr., Papers date from 1908 to 2007 and represent Schnabel’s career at Philadelphia General Hospital and in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medicine, as well as the numerous professional medical organizations in which he was involved. The collection is divided into eight series: Boards, Committees, and Groups; Correspondence; Foundations; Lectures, Speeches, and Talks; Personal Files; Philadelphia General Hospital; Published Articles; and Truman G....
Dates: 1908 - 2007
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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Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
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Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia 7
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Medical History 6
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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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