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Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Morris Eaton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/005
Scope and Contents
The Eaton Papers consist of correspondence, handwritten notes,
reports, and newspaper and periodical articles concerning Eaton's
life, career, and professional concerns. The bulk of the collection
is comprised of records from Eaton's tenure as Chairman of the Philadelphia County Medical Society(PCMS) Committee on Archives. These records include reports
of the committee; correspondence files with physicians and their
descendants concerning biographical information; Eaton's
biographical...
Dates:
1885 - 1919
Dixon family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 382
Overview
Edward H. Dixon (1808-1880) was a New York City surgeon. Dixon earned his M.D. from Rutgers Medical College in 1829 or 1830, and then studied material medica, theory and practice, and therapeutics under Dr. John Francis; and surgery under Dr. Alexander Mott. Afterwards, Dixon accepted positions at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and House of Refuge. Later, he opened his own practice as a consulting surgeon, as well as a private surgical hospital.He married his wife, Sarah S. Hart, in...
Dates:
1842 - 1893
E. B. Krumbhaar papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/344
Overview
Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1882-1966) was a distinguished pathologist and cardiac physician, as well as one of Philadelphia’s leading historians of medicine. A founder of both the Section on Medical History of the College of Physicians and the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM), Krumbhaar also served as president of the College and of the AAHM. The E.B. Krumbhaar papers covers Krumbhaar’s accomplishments and contributions to pathology and cardiac physiology from the early to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1899 - 1992; 1825 - 1992
Ernest Spiegel papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/251
Overview
Ernest A. Spiegel, M.D., was an Austrian-born internationally
recognized neurologist. He emigrated to the United States in 1930,
where he spent much of his career at Temple University School of
Medicine in Philadelphia. He finished his career at the National
Parkinson FOundation in Miami. Spiegel is well-known for his work
in developing the stereotactic technique. He passed away in 1985. The
papers of Ernest Spiegel reflect his varied interests in neurological
research and publication from his...
Dates:
1895
Francis C. Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/184
Scope and Contents
This collection contains professional, personal, and subject
correspondence; financial and property papers; course material;
discussions, book and article reviews, and miscellaneous writings;
and extensive case records with indexes, documenting the life,
interests, and neurosurgical career of Francis Clark Grant. Although
the correspondence is incomplete (primarily 1923 to 1933), the
discussions and reviews extend to 1949, and the case records span
Grant's entire career, 1921-1957....
Dates:
1920 - 1957
Frederick Murtagh papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/336
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondencem typescripts, ephemera,
photogrphs and slides, memoranda, and records of operations. It
documents the career of Murtagh and many of the operations and
procedures within the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
(HUP), the hospital at Temple University, and the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia. Mostly, the collection concerns
Murtagh's work as a neurosurgeon at HUP. The history of
procedures he performed is well covered as are his...
Dates:
1947 - 1996
Roland G. Curtin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/215
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Roland G. Curtin's papers, 18791912,
contains holographs and typescripts of articles and speeches
with bibliographies of Curtin's works. Some items in the collection
include related letters or notes describing cases and reference
material.Several of the speeches and articles concern heart disease and
its treatments. Other noteworthy items are a speech on medical
symbolism; obituaries of James B. Walker and DejForest
Willard; and Curtin's description...
Dates:
1879 - 1912
S. D. Risley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/006
Scope and Contents
This collection of S. D. Risley's professional papers, 18811913,
consist of ophthalmological case records, 1886-1908, many from
the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine;
a surgeon's report of Wills Eye Hospital, 1901; manuscript and
typescript versions of articles concerning ophthalmology, cataract
and other eye diseases, and surgical instruments and treatments,
1881-1913; correspondence, reports, and related materials concerning
eye examinations for school...
Dates:
1881 - 1913
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