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Alexander Jackson notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/196
Scope and Contents

Alexander Jackson’s notes, 26 January through 27 February 1824, from lectures in Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Includes occasional diagrams and subject index. Lecturers include: Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine, John Redman Coxe on materia medica, William Gibson on surgery, and William P. Dewees and Thomas C. James on midwifery. Includes occasional notes on Robert Hare on chemistry and Philip Syng Physick on anatomy.

Dates: 1824
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Alexander Knight daybooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 412
Scope and Contents note

This collection consists of two volumes of Knight's lists of patients attended, 1813-1815 and 1820-1821. The lists include the date, name, age, residence, cost, diagnosis, and outcome. The first volume also includes a summary table of patients seen by month for the years 1813 through 1817. The second volume includes the profession as well as the referring person of the patient in some of the entries.

Dates: 1813-1821
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Alexander Rush papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/243
Scope and Contents This small collection of Alexander Rush's papers, 1931-1984, with some earlier material, documents his personal life, professional career, and interest in his ancestor, Benjamin Rush, and includes lectures and addresses, writings, awards, certificates, diplomas, and photographs.Series 1 contains letters, a passport, curricula vitae, bibliographies, and printed material concerning Rush's life and career, 1922-1984. Material, 1812-1981, concerning Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) is...
Dates: 1812 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1984
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Alfred M. Cooper daybooks

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/343
Dates: 1865 - 1871
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Alfred R. Shands, Jr. papers on William E. Horner

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/090
Scope and Contents This small collection of correspondence and related materials, 1821-1975, assembled by Alfred Rives Shands, Jr., documents his research on William E. Horner. The collection is divided into four series. Series 1 contains Shands' correspondence, 1948-1975, concerning the loan and ultimate disposition of a collection of Horner papers and relics at the University of Pennsylvania and Shands' attempt to publish Horner's 1821 European diary. Series 2 contains two printed items...
Dates: 1821 - 1975
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Alfred Stengel patient record

 Collection — Flat File: Case 2, Drawer: 2
Identifier: MSS 469
Scope and Contents

This small collection consists of a framed patient record for Alfred Stengel dated May 1, 1889. The record notes his diagnosis of influenza, his occupation as physician, and residence at Philadelphia Hospital, in addition to the details of his treatment. The treating physician is not named in the record.

Dates: 1889 May 1
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Alfred Stille correspondence

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 370
Abstract Dr. Alfred Stille’s personal correspondence is housed in this collection. The main theme of the letters follows the temperance movement, including a newspaper clipping explaining medicine preparation without the use of alcohol. Items found interleaved in a book (The temperance movement or, The conflict between man and alcohol, by Henry William Blair, 1888, call number Ncc 167) in the Library’s collection. Contains correspondence and clipping from 1887 to 1887. This collection was discovered...
Dates: 1887 - 1888
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Allen R. Myers Presidential Papers

 Series
Identifier: CPP 2/013-01
Abstract Allen R. Myers was born in Baltimore on January 14, 1935. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania and received his M.D. from University of Maryland in 1960; his medical specialties were Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. He spent the majority of his career in academia and was elected College President in 2000 and served two terms. Myers died in January 2020. This collection dates from 1999-2003, and documents Allen Myers’ time as College President. It contains correspondence,...
Dates: 1972-2006; Majority of material found in 1999-2001
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Almon Twitchell daybooks

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/280
Scope and Contents

Daybook documents medical practice of Almon Twitchell in Bethel, Me., and surrounding Oxford Co. area. Lists patients, charges, medicine, and account settlements, 1854 Aug. 25-1859 Dec. 29.

Dates: 1854 - 1859
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Alonzo West lecture notes from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 409
Scope and Contents note

This is a volume of notes taken by Alonzo West from lectures by Dr. John Sanders, Dr. A. O. Blair, Dr. S. R. Beckwith, Dr. G. W. Barnes, Dr. Wilson, and other lecturers at Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, 1865-1866. Topics include obstetrics, surgery, practice, materia medica, and physiology. The volume includes an index.

Dates: 1865-1866
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Curator 10
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Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
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Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 6
Carson, Joseph 5
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Building Committee 5
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Treasurer 5
Dorsey, John Syng 5
Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
Jackson, Samuel 5
Parrish, Joseph 5
Radbill, Samuel X. 5
United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
University of Edinburgh 5
University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
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Bache, Franklin 4
Bache, Thomas Hewson 4
Blockley Almshouse 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library Committee 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of Advancement 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Public Health, Preventive, and Industrial Medicine 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Women's Committee 4
Curie, Marie 4
Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr. 4
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Hinsdale, Guy 4
Keen, William W. (William Williams) 4
McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
Medical Library Association 4
Mid-Eastern Regional Medical Library Service 4
Pathological Society of Philadelphia 4
Pepper, William 4
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 4
Santee, E. A. (Ephraim A.) 4
Stillé, Alfred 4
Sturgis, Samuel Booth 4
Tyson, James 4
United States. Navy 4
Wistar, Caspar 4
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
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Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
Billings, John S. (John Shaw) 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Board of Trustees 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Executive Director 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on General Medicine 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Ophthalmology 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Otolaryngology 3
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trustees of the Building Fund 3
Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
Hare, Robert 3
Harvard Medical School 3
Hewson, Thomas T. 3
Horner, William E. (William Edmonds) 3
Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John) 3
James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
Jenner, Edward 3
Leverson, Montague R. (Montague Richard), 1830-1925 3
Medical Documentation Service (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena) 3
Micozzi, Marc S. 3
Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley) 3
Muller, George P. (George Paul) 3
Neilson, Thomas R. (Thomas Rundle) 3
Pancoast, Joseph 3
Parke, Thomas 3
Philadelphia General Hospital. School of Nursing 3

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