Carson, Joseph
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Hugh Lenox Hodge papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/350
Abstract
The Hugh Lenox Hodge Papers collection documents portions of Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge’s medical career. Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge was a prominent Philadelphia physician who specialized in obstetrics, becoming one of the most renowned figures in that field in the nineteenth century. Hodge also contributed to fighting the cholera epidemic in Philadelphia during 1832. The collection contains two series: “Correspondence,” and “Subject Files,” dating from 1817 to 1833, 1870, 1932, and undated. Materials...
Dates:
1817-1833, 1870, 1932, undated
Notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Hospital
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/208
Scope and Contents
Volume of notes taken by an unidentified student on the lectures of Joseph Carson on materia medica, William Pepper on the theory and practice of medicine, and Henry H. Smith on surgery in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1862 December 2-1863 January 29, and R. A. F. Penrose on obstetrics at Philadelphia Hospital, 1862 December 10-1863 February 6. Three case descriptions presented by J. M. Da Costa at the hospital are also included.
Dates:
1862 - 1863
