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Irving J. Wolman papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1990-040
Scope and Contents note
This collection includes materials relating to Wolman's roles as a physician, researcher and professor. Present are general patient files with exam reports, lab reports, and correspondence with referring physicians; along with College of Physicians of Philadelphia meeting agendas (1921-1946), and a small number of office files, including photographs of Hematology Department parties. Materials relating to Wolman's research activities include Cooley's Anemia patient files containing histories,...
Dates:
1921-1968 1952-1968
Isaac Anderson dissertation on fistula lacrymalis
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/016
Scope and Contents
Anderson attacks the current understanding of fistula lacrymalis, describes the anatomy and physiology of the tear ducts, and advises opening the sac for relief. Two cases (dated May, 1831) are used for illustration.
Dates:
circa 1830s
Isaac Hiester letter to Samuel Jackson
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/143
Scope and Contents
Hiester recalls experience as student sent by Caspar Wistar to Germantown to report on outbreak of yellow fever among several families there, circa 1805. Letter describes physical situation of Germantown and location of houses of infected families.
Dates:
1821-08-24
Isaac S. Thompson notes on the lectures of Colin McKenzie
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 408
Scope and Contents note
This is a volume of manuscript lecture notes entitled "Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery by Colin McKenzie, M.D." The notes appear to have been taken by Isaac S. Thompson. There are 22 lectures; topics include "Of the Structure of the Pelvis," "Of Conception and Touching," "On Abortion," "Premature Births," and "Preternatural Labor." The volume also includes several recipes for prescriptions.An inscription on the inside of the front cover dates the volume to 1784;...
Dates:
1784; undated
Isaac Starr notebooks (unprocessed)
Collection — Volume: 1-84
Identifier: 1986-11
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection primarily of laboratory notebooks relating to Starr's work with the ballistocardiograph. Notebooks include lists and graphs of experiment data, notes and calculations, patient information, typed summaries of experiments, notes for papers and presentations, and correspondence with other cardiologists and with medical records archivists. The collection also includes a number of rolled ballistocardiograph printouts on photographic paper; printing blocks for illustrations...
Dates:
1931-1980
Isaiah Alden daybook
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/055
Scope and Contents
Daybook of I. L. Alden’s medical practice in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford counties, Me., 22 June 18769 Sept. 1877. Daybook lists income accounts chronologically with patient’s name, date, charge, and brief explanation. Includes accounts with towns of Jay and East Livermore and extensive notes on case of paracentesis thoracis, 1877.
Dates:
1876 - 1877
Israel Parsons daybooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/298
Scope and Contents
The collection contains eight daybooks, 1855-1894, and
one ledger, 1872-1904, documenting the medical practice of Israel
Parsons in Marcellus, New York, and surrounding Onondaga County.
The daybooks list patients, services or prescriptions, and
amount charged; occasional descriptions of cases are included.
The final three volumes in the series have occasional marginal
notes in shorthand. The ledger, organized by name of patient
with references to pages in the corresponding daybooks,...
Dates:
1855 - 1904
J. Arman notes on lectures from the Université de Montpellier
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/127
Scope and Contents
Student notes on materia medica taken by J. Arman at the Université de Montpellier, France, 1748. Notes are divided into internal and three classes of external remedies. Internal remedies covered are: cathartics, purgatives, diaphoretics and sudorifics, diuretics, aperitives, emmenagogues, cardiacs, stomachics, cephalics, febrifuges, carminatives, anticlementics, lithontriptics, salivants, bechics, astringents, absorbants, narcotics, and laxatives. Divisions of first class of external...
Dates:
1748
J. F. Miles ledger
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/260
Scope and Contents
Ledger documenting medical practice of J. F. Miles in Hinesburgh, Vt., 1848-1860. Includes accounts with Town of Hinesburgh and payment of medical fees with goods and services.
Dates:
1848 - 1860
J. H. Marsden papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/066
Scope and Contents
One volume documents medical practice, 1847-1861, of J. H. Marsden, homeopathic physician in Adams County, Pa. Lists charges and payments, made often with goods or services, for each patient and information concerning occupation of each patient; bulk spans 1847 to 1861 with occasional entries through 1870s. One folder of material laid in ledger contains bills, receipts, promissary notes, and miscellaneous financial papers, 1851-1881. Index to ledger account names included.A...
Dates:
1847 - 1861
