Deaver, John B. (John Blair)
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
John B. Deaver card catalogue of German Hospital Collection of Appendices
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 2/036-03
Scope and Contents
Card catalogue to appendectomies performed by John B. Deaver at German Hospital of Philadelphia, 1899 Apr. 22-1903 June 22 (case numbers 305-1864), functioning as index to teaching collection deposited in Mütter Museum of College of Physicians of Philadelphia (specimens no longer extant). Includes description of specimens, probably by Aloysius O. J. Kelly, as pathologist. Specimen collection missing by 1937.
Dates:
1899 - 1903
John B. Deaver correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/036-02
Scope and Contents
This small collection of John B. Deaver's letters received from
other surgeons and physicians, 1885-1926, was probably retained
for its autograph value. Prominent correspondents are John
Ashhurst, Jr., Calvin Coolidge, Harvey Cushing, S. Weir Mitchell,
John B. Murphy, Sir William Osler, Maurice H. Richardson, A.
W. Mayo Robson, N. Senn. and G. Grey Turner. The letters concern
reactions to Deaver's published writings and notes on surgical
cases and matters. The letter from Calvin...
Dates:
1885 - 1926
John B. Deaver speeches
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/036-01
Scope and Contents
This collection contains John B. Deaver’s manuscripts of over two hundred public addresses, 1904-1931, on many topics, particularly surgery and his surgical experiences; eight typescript articles, 1907-1930; notes of various subjects, 1905-1926; and miscellaneous material, generally biographical or bibliographical in nature, 1909-1932. Series 1 contains addresses to medical organizations and societies, including College of Physicians of Philadelphia, John B. Deaver Surgical Society, Clinical...
Dates:
1904 - 1931
Records of the John B. Deaver Surgical Society
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4/002
Scope and Contents
This small collection of the corporate records of the John B.
Deaver Surgical Society documents the society's membership and
activities over a fifty year period. The minute books of the
society (1915-1944) in Series 1 contain the cases and papers
presented at each meeting, the results of the annual election
of officers, and also records of membership in the society and
attendance at each meeting. The treasurer's books in Series 2 (1943-1966) list the society's
income,...
Dates:
1915 - 1966
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Agendas (administrative records) 1
- Appendectomy 1
- Appendicitis 1
- Breast -- Cancer 1
- Catalogs 1
- Cholecystitis 1
- Correspondence 1
- Financial records 1
- Gallbladder -- Surgery 1
- Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 1
- Minutes 1
- Pancreatitis 1
- Peritonitis 1
- Prostate -- Surgery 1
- Speeches (documents) 1
- Surgeons 1
- Surgery 1
- Uterus -- Cancer 1
- Vivisection 1
