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Elisha Kent Kane essay on dropsy

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 2/100

Scope and Contents Holograph essay defines dropsy and cites three cases of an anomalous form of the disease which Kane had seen while in residence at Philadelphia Hospital (18401841). Kane maintains that this "local dropsy" does not occur with typical symptoms or respond to accepted treatment. Essay addressed to the U.S. Navy’s Board of Medical Examiners.Also published as Horrocks, Thomas A. "Elisha Kent Kane’s Unpublished Treatise on Dropsy," Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians...

Dates: undated

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Elizabeth Coates Paschall receipt book

Collection — Volume: 1

Identifier: 10a 352

Scope and Contents

This receipt book contains just over 200 recipes, with roughly a third related to cookery or household needs, the remainder are medical remedies. Paschall’s recipes came from her own experiences, were recommended by her community or area physicians, and were also found in books. In most cases, she includes the original source of the recipe.

Dates: 1749-1766

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Emlen Wood notes on the lectures of E.T. Reichert

Item

Identifier: Z10 217

Scope and Contents

One volume (unbound) of notes on physiology lectures delivered by Edward T. Reichert. Lectures are dated from 2 October 1911 to 26 January 1912.

Dates: 1911 - 1912

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

English commonplace book on observations relating to human abnormalities and natural phenomena

Collection — Volume: 1

Identifier: MSS 2/217

Scope and Contents

English commonplace book, compiled by an unknown author by 1795, containing observations and historical anecdotes relating to human abnormalities, including dwarfs and giants, longevity and rejuvenation, and multiple births, as well as natural phenomena, such as fires and earthquakes. Many anecdotes are dated and contain citations to sources.

Dates: circa 1795

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Ernest Spiegel papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 2/251

Abstract 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...

Dates: 1895

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Essays from the Board of Naval Surgeons of the United States Navy Bureau and Medicine Department

Collection

Identifier: MSS 1/001-02

Scope and Contents The collection contains a series of 74 brief essays on an array of subjects, 1841-1848, with a few related letters and testimonials, from physicians applying to the Board of Naval Surgeons, for entrance into or promotion in the U.S. Navy. The Board appears to have been convened at the U.S. Naval Asylum in Philadelphia and Surgeon John A. Kearney was its president. Many of the applicants were graduates of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The collection...

Dates: 1841 - 1848

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Evelyn Cook Bauerle papers on Benjamin Gruskin

Collection

Identifier: MSS 402

Abstract Evelyn Matthews Cook Bauerle was born in 1910 in Rahway Union, New Jersey. She graduated from Ursinus College in 1930, majoring in chemistry and biology, and assisted Benjamin Gruskin in setting up his new research lab at Temple Medical School, running most of tests summarized in Gruskin’s published articles. She remained there until 1939. Bauerle died in 2002 in York, Pennsylvania.Benjamin Gruskin was born in 1878 in either Lithuania or Russia (accounts vary). He graduated...

Dates: 1931-1951

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Examination questions from the United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 1/001-01

Scope and Contents Examination questions and responses to Naval Medical Board at U. S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, from D. Warren Brickell, 1847, and H. Lawrence Sheldon, 1856. Brickell gives description of iritis and its treatment. Sheldon responds to twelve questions and describes fistula lacrymalis; scarlatina; delivery by the feet; composition of light; definition of dew point; nux vomica; branches of intestinal iliac; lacrimal apparatus; structure and function of liver; morbid changes in blood;...

Dates: 1847, 1856

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Facts leading up to the legislative act legalizing dissection of the human body: compiled from data kept by William Smith Forbes, M.D., professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, of the grave robbing of Lebanon Cemetery

Collection

Identifier: MSS 467

Scope and Contents

This scrapbook contains material related to the case surrounding the grave robbing at Lebanon Cemetery in Philadelphia and the subsequent Anatomy Act in Pennsylvania. Also included are notes (1880-1881) acknowledging receipt of museum specimens, reports and lists of bodies delivered to medical schools (1881), and W. S. Forbes' History of the Anatomy-Act of Pennsylvania (1898).

Dates: 1879-1898; 1935-1937

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Failed fellowship applications of the Office of the Secretary of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: CPP 1/007-01

Scope and Contents This collection of failed fellowship applications, spanning 1900 to 1937, is part of the records of the office of the Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Each fellowship application consists of an application form containing basic information about the applicant and three or more letters of recommendation from Fellows of the College. These applications are useful in that they reveal some of the reasons why candidates were rejected from the fellowship, provide the names of...

Dates: 1900 - 1937

Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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Elisha Kent Kane essay on dropsy

Elizabeth Coates Paschall receipt book

Emlen Wood notes on the lectures of E.T. Reichert

English commonplace book on observations relating to human abnormalities and natural phenomena

Ernest Spiegel papers

Essays from the Board of Naval Surgeons of the United States Navy Bureau and Medicine Department

Evelyn Cook Bauerle papers on Benjamin Gruskin

Examination questions from the United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Facts leading up to the legislative act legalizing dissection of the human body: compiled from data kept by William Smith Forbes, M.D., professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, of the grave robbing of Lebanon Cemetery

Failed fellowship applications of the Office of the Secretary of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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