Essays
Subject
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Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:
Albert C. Gorgas essay and examination questions
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/234
Scope and Contents
Holograph essay, 1856 Mar. 28, describing causes, symptoms, and treatment of neuralgia and tic doloureux [facial neuralgia], and twelve examination questions with responses, [1856 Mar. 31], by Albert C. Gorgas. Forms part of Gorgas’ examination for entrance into Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy. Essay written at U.S. Naval Home in Philadelphia and presented to the Board of Naval Surgeons of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Dates:
1856
Benjamin Rush papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 426
Overview
Benjamin Rush, Philadelphia physician, in 1745 o.s. in Byberry Township. In 1768, he received his M.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He helped to establish the Philadelphia Dispensary and was a physician there until his death. Rush was also a member of the Provincial Congress in 1776, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and, in 1777, became Surgeon General of the Continental Army. He was a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia from 1787 to 1793.The...
Dates:
undated
Douglas Macfarlan manuscript on revolutionary war hospitals in the Pennsylvania campaign
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/104
Scope and Contents
Describes medical conditions in the Continental Army and hospital facilities in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, 1777-1778.
Includes map of locations of military hospitals.
Dates:
undated
Elijah Petty essay on pulmonary tuberculosis
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/007
Scope and Contents
Essay written by Elijah D. Petty in June, 1857, describes phthisis pulmonalis [pulmonary tuberculosis], its
cause, duration, termination, pathology, symptoms, and treatment.
Dates:
1857
Elisha Kent Kane essay on dropsy
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/100
Scope and Contents
Holograph essay defines dropsy and cites three cases of an anomalous form of the disease which Kane
had seen while in residence at Philadelphia Hospital (18401841).
Kane maintains that this "local dropsy"
does not occur with typical symptoms or respond to accepted treatment. Essay addressed to the U.S.
Navy’s Board of Medical Examiners.Also published as Horrocks, Thomas A. "Elisha Kent Kane’s Unpublished Treatise on Dropsy," Transactions &
Studies of the College of Physicians of...
Dates:
undated
Essays from the Board of Naval Surgeons of the United States Navy Bureau and Medicine Department
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1/001-02
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a series of 74 brief essays on an array
of subjects, 1841-1848, with a few related letters and testimonials,
from physicians applying to the Board of Naval Surgeons, for
entrance into or promotion in the U.S. Navy. The Board appears
to have been convened at the U.S. Naval Asylum in Philadelphia
and Surgeon John A. Kearney was its president. Many of the
applicants were graduates of the Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania. The collection conveys...
Dates:
1841 - 1848
George Bacon Wood writings
Collection
Identifier: MSS 433
Overview
George Bacon Wood was born in New Jersey 1797 and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1818. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1821, but resigned in 1835 to become Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania. Later he became Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, a position he held until he retired in 1860. He died in Philadelphia in 1879.The George Bacon Wood writings are a small...
Dates:
1848; undated
George Green papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/013
Scope and Contents
The contents of this commonplace book of George Green, Sr., divide
naturally into three series: medical lecture notes and examination
questions, many from the Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania, 1817-1820; copies or drafts of personal correspondence,
1824 and undated; and poetry, literary sentences, and miscellaneous
writings, 1858-1860 and undated. Medical items in the volume include a copy of notes on Philip Syng
Physick's lecture on inflammation, [1819?]...
Dates:
1817 - 1860
Isaac Anderson dissertation on fistula lacrymalis
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/016
Scope and Contents
Anderson attacks the current understanding of fistula lacrymalis, describes the anatomy and physiology of the
tear ducts, and advises opening the sac for relief. Two cases (dated May, 1831) are used for illustration.
Dates:
circa 1830s
Jacob Sharpless essays
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/028
Scope and Contents
These two essays, written early in Jacob Sharpless' medical career,
show his concern not only with physical disease but also with
social ills.The first, submitted to the Censors of the Philadelphia Medical
Society in application for junior membership in 1816, discusses
the causes of injuries to the medulla spinalis or spinal
injuries which exhibit no visible fractures. The essay examines
current methods of treatment for spinal injuries although Sharpless
concedes that the...
Dates:
1816 - 1817
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