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William Brower account book
The collection consists of an account book, 1872-1883, kept by physician William Brower, 1842-1919. Accounts are recorded under the names of individuals, and the volume has a name index. Entries under each account list the services rendered and their cost, who received the service, and any payments made. The bulk of entries list only visit as the service, but more description, such as vaccination, is occasionally provided.
William Clift letter to Philip Syng Physick
Letter of William Clift to Philip Syng Physick, 1835 May 8, describes care of pathological collections of John Hunter since Hunter’s death in 1793; extracts concerning pathological specimens made from Hunter’s papers and manuscripts before their destruction; production of catalogue; and current inaccessibility of museum collections due to construction in the library of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Type of reproduction--Photocopy (positive).
William D. Frazier papers
William E. Horner notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
One volume (457 leaves) on notes on the physiology lectures of Benjamin Rush delivered at the University of Pennsylvania. Topics cover visiting the sick, the pulse, animal heat, motion, respiration, circulation, the nervous system, sensation, muscles and tendons, sympathy, senses, operations and pleasures of the human mind, digestion, lymphatic system, glands, excretions, nutrition, peculiarities of the sexes, and generation.
William Ellery Hughes record of anomalies found in the dissecting room of the University of Pennsylvania
Two volumes of illustrations and descriptions of anatomical anomalies found mainly in the muscular, arterial, venous, nervous, and osseous systems of subjects dissected at the University of Pennsylvania during the 1878-1879 and probably the 1879-1880 academic sessions.
William F. Houston certificates of membership in the Philadelphia Medical Society
Certificates confirm Houston’s membership in Philadelphia Medical Society as junior fellow, 1808 Feb. 20, and honorary fellow, 1809 Feb. 20. Includes signatures of Benjamin Rush and Benjamin Smith Barton.
William G. Leaman slide collection (unprocessed)
This is a collection of approximately 650 2" x 2" black and white slides. Slides depict objects and illustrations related to the history of medicine, and include portraits and caricatures, medical conditions and treatments, buildings and shops, and instruments and prostheses. Slides were used by Dr. Leaman to illustrate his lectures on medical history given at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
William Geisinger Moyer lecture notes (unprocessed)
This collection consists of 33 volumes of lecture notes taken by William Moyer while he was a student at Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, from 1902 and 1905. Topics include: the Eye, Anatomy, Gynecology, Hydrotherapy and Electricity, Insanity, Plastic Surgery, Surgery, Therapeutics, Toxicology, and others. The collection also includes an essay on anesthesia, written in 1910 and a math quiz dated 1925.
William Gerry Morgan typescript on the history of the University of Pennsylvania
Address for University of Pennsylvania’s Celebration of Medical Progress, 10-11 Oct. 1930, but never delivered. Morgan highlights university’s outstanding events, individuals, such as Benjamin Franklin, John Morgan, and Benjamin Rush, and contributions to medicine.
