William L. Challiss lecture and matriculation tickets
Scope and Contents
This small collection documents the medical education of William L. Challiss at Jefferson Medical College, 1847-1848. The collection contains one matriculation card for the 18481849 academic session and admission cards to the lectures of Franklin Bache, Robley Dunglison, Robert M. Huston, Charles D. Meigs, John K. Mitchell, Thomas D. Mutter, and Joseph Pancoast. There is also one card admitting Challiss to lectures at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy in 1847.
Dates
- Creation: 1847 - 1849
Creator
- Challiss, William L. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
William L. Challiss of Burlington, New Jersey, received his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1849; his thesis was on dysentery. In 1890, Challiss was practicing medicine in Woodlawn, Kansas; in 1893, he was practicing in Atchison, Kansas. He died circa 1896.
Full Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
Small collections
Custodial History
The William L. Challiss Collection was donated to the Historical
Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by
Mrs. Warren Dickinson of Glenside, Pennsylvania, on 12 August
1983.
The collection was processed and catalogued in 1990.
Subject
- Jefferson Medical College (Organization)
- Philadelphia School of Anatomy (Organization)
- Bache, Franklin (Person)
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) (Person)
- Dunglison, Robley (Person)
- Huston, Robert M. (Robert Mendenhall) (Person)
- Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena) (Person)
- Mitchell, John Kearsley (Person)
- Pancoast, Joseph (Person)
- Title
- William L. Challiss lecture and matriculation tickets
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
