Medicine -- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Carson correspondence
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/292
Scope and Contents
The collection contains four letters to Joseph Carson from the publishing firm of Lindsay Blakiston concerning the production and sale of Carson's A history of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The collection also includes a letter containing resolutions made by the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on the resignation of Joseph Carson in 1876. 1. Lindsay Blakiston. Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Joseph Carson, [Philadelphia, Pa.], 1868 Sept....
Dates:
1868 - 1876
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
Photostat negatives of letters and documents relating to Benjamin Rush
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 475
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains negative photostat copies of letters and other documents relating to Benjamin Rush and his practice in the Army. Letters of Benjamin Rush to George Washington are dated February 13, 1777, May 13, 1777, and August 30, 1777. There are also two memoranda dated December 23, 1777 with photocopy of letter of J. Norcum to Washington, criticizing Rush, dated December 29, 1777. Letters from George Washington to Benjamin Rush are dated May 16, 1777, September 4, 1777, and...
Dates:
1777-1778; 1801; 1803
Soloman Bush daybook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 377
Overview
This daybook contains medical observations and recipes from Philadelphia resident, Dr. Solomon Bush. The son of Mathias Bush, Dr. Solomon Bush practiced medicine around the time of the Revolutionary War despite not having any formal training. In addition to his medical case studies and remedy recipes, his daybook also includes a memorandum of his marriage to Ann, the daughter of Christopher Marshall on April 2, 1791. The announcement of the birth of his son, Nathan Marshall Bush, follows on...
Dates:
1789 - 1792
Thomas Bond correspondence
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 418
Overview
Thomas Bond was an American physician and surgeon. He was born May 2, 1713, in Calvert County, Maryland. In 1751 he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first medical facility in the American colonies, with Benjamin Franklin, and also volunteered his services there as both physician and teacher. During the Revolutionary War, Bond helped to organize the medical department of the Continental Army. He established the first American field hospitals during the conflict. He was also a member...
Dates:
1741; 1760; 1773; 1776
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