University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine
Organization
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Fred D. Weidman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/182
Scope and Contents
The collection of Fred D. Weidman's papers, 1896-1933 contains
student notebooks and papers; correspondence and reports concerning
a 1926 survey on fungal disease; drawings and photographs; and
some miscellaneous writings.The bulk of the collection is concerned with Weidman's education,
both in secondary school and in the Department of Medicine at
the University of Pennsylvania. Series 1 contains 28 volumes
of student notes on many subjects. The notes from Weidman's...
Dates:
1896 - 1933
George Coates papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 413
Abstract
The George Coates papers cover the years 1897 and 1909 to 1910. The collection consists of two volumes, one of answers to surgical examination questions from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897; the other from 1909 to 1910, containing Coates’ expenses for the years and what seems to be an address book of Philadelphia-area physicians. Also included in the collection are the questions to the examination questions. George Coates was Coates was an ear, nose, and throat...
Dates:
1897; 1909-1910
George Edmund de Schweinitz papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/109
Abstract
The George Edmunds de Schweinitz Papers collection documents portions of de Schweinitz’s professional medical career, largely from 1901 to 1918. George Edmund de Schweinitz was a prominent ophthalmologist, born in Philadelphia on October 26th, 1858. He worked and lectured at several hospitals and schools in the Philadelphia region until the late 1920s, and also made significant contributions to ophthalmological literature. The collection contains three series: “Correspondence,” “Writings,”...
Dates:
1901-1918, 1921, 1933, 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,...
Dates:
1817 - 1860
James Tyson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 442
Abstract
James Tyson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1841. He earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1863, and served as acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army and resident physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital. Later he served as professor of pathology at Penn. Tyson succeeded William Pepper as chair in the practice of medicine, a position he held until 1914. He was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1866, and served as its...
Dates:
circa 1873-1914; undated
Jeremiah B. Stubbs correspondence received
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/224
Scope and Contents
The collection contains fourteen letters received, 18361848,
by Jeremiah B. Stubbs, primarily from his brother, S. B. Stubbs,
with matriculation and lecture admission tickets, 1826, from
Jefferson Medical College. Several of the letters from S. B. Stubbs and one letter from Samuel
Webster describe the conditions, faculty, medical education,
and student life at Jefferson during the 1830s and early 1840s;
some comparisons are drawn between courses and faculty at Jefferson...
Dates:
1826 - 1848
John Atlee notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 2/065
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of John L. Atlee’s notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania, 1818-1820,
documenting his medical education. Volume 1 contains Atlee’s notes, 18 February 1818 to 26 February 1818, on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman on Practice, Institutes, and Clinical Medicine, numbers 79 [continued] through 85. Volume 2 contains Atlee’s notes, 15 November 1819 to 18 January 1820, on the lectures of John Redman Coxe on materia medica; William Gibson on surgery; Robert...
Dates:
1818 - 1820
John Fergusson Lamb lecture admission ticket
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/236
Scope and Contents
Ticket admitting John F. Lamb to lectures of John Redman Coxe on materia medica and pharmacy at University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine, 1819 Nov. 3.
Dates:
1819-11-03
John H. Brown notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/118
Scope and Contents
Student notes on lectures of Nathaniel Chapman taken by John H. Brown at the University of Pennsylvania’s Dept. of Medicine, summer and fall, 1835. Lectures on practice of medicine consider diseases examined by symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis, pathology, and treatment.
Dates:
1835
John H. Fager notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/133
Scope and Contents
Student notes taken by John H. Fager on lectures of Nathaniel Chapman on practice of physic and pathology, poisons, and epidemics, at University of Pennsylvania, 1827. Includes notes on several authors concerning practice of medicine and descriptions and specifics for common diseases.
Dates:
circa 1827
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- Lecture notes 23
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- Materia Medica 10
- Medicine -- Practices 10
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- Admission tickets 4
- Lectures 4
- Pathology 4
- Surgery 4
- Inflammation 3
- Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 3
- Reports 3
- Awards 2
- Cardiology 2
- Clippings 2
- Diseases 2
- Electrocardiography 2
- Examinations -- Questions 2
- Fever 2
- Ledgers (account books) 2
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- Medical offices -- Nineteenth century 2
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- Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 2
- Patient records 2
- Physiology 2
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- Research notes 2
- Typescripts 2
- Yellow Fever 2
- Allegories (document genre) 1
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- Annual reports 1
- Articles 1
- Autograph albums 1
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- Biography files 1
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- Medicine -- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 1
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- Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Physicians -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 1
- Physicians -- World War, 1939-1945 1
- Poetry 1
- Poisons 1
- Public health -- United States 1
- Radium 1
- Recipes 1
- Reference files 1
- Reprints 1
