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John Wiley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/059
Scope and Contents
This small collection of five notebooks documents John Wiley's
medical education at Jefferson Medical College, 1835-1837, and
gives some sketchy information about his later professional
life.The heart of the collection consists of one volume of Wiley's
notes (1835-1837) on the lectures of Jefferson faculty, including:
Samuel Colhoun on materia medica; Robley Dunglison on physiology;
Jacob Green on chemistry; George McClellan on surgery; Granville
Sharp Pattison on anatomy;...
Dates:
1834 - 1855
John Yardley Clark notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey
Collection
Identifier: 10a 306
Scope and Contents
One volume (131, 250, 11 leaves) of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Syng Dorsey at the University of Pennsylvania. The first section is a general lecture on therapeutics, which includes subsection “the modus operandi of medicines”. The second section covers bloodletting and the following materia medica: emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialagogues, emenagogues, anthelmintics, stimulants, narcotics, antispasmodics, tonics, and epispastics. The last...
Dates:
1816 - 1817
Jonathan Archer notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
Collection
Identifier: 10a 453
Scope and Contents
Volume 4 and 5 of a set of notes taken by John Archer on the lectures of Benjamin Rush, delivered at the University of Pennsylvania from 1796-1797. Topics covered include pathology, the causes of disease, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine, particularly in the case of fevers.
Dates:
1796 - 1797
Jonathan Faust notebook
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/071
Scope and Contents
Volume documents Jonathan N. Faust’s education at Jefferson Medical College, 1866-1867,
and
contains recipes, Faust family genealogical material, and miscellaneous material, 1867-1881.
Pages 167
contain notes on medical clinic of J. M. Da Costa and surgical clinic of Samuel D. Gross and notes
from lectures of John B. Biddle on materia medica; Samuel H. Dickson on practice of medicine; Robley
Dunglison on institutes of medicine; William H. Pancoast on anatomy; B. Howard Rand on chemistry;...
Dates:
1866 - 1881
Jones Family Papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 438
Abstract
The Jones Family Papers, spanning from 1881 to 1968, documents parts of the family practice and life as a family where the patriarch is a country doctor. The collection contains 45 rpm records, photographs, correspondence, financial records in the form of patient cards and ledgers, notebooks, patient records and personal records.The Jones Family Papers focus on several of country doctors from West Virginia. William Notly Jones is the first doctor of the family, but is not well...
Dates:
1881-1968
Joseph A. Wolf lecture and matriculation tickets
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/172
Dates:
1844 - 1847
Joseph B. VanderVeer letters to Douglas T. Neale
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/314
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters, 1942 Feb. 15-1944 Aug. 13, describing experiences and daily life as physician in U.S. Army 52nd Evacuation Hospital ( and 364th Station Hospital, where he was stationed during World War II.
Dates:
1942-1944
Joseph C. Ferguson, Jr. Opticians advertisements (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2295
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of advertisements and ephemera from Joseph C. Ferguson, Jr., Opticians. Materials include scrapbooks of newspaper advertisements and printed advertising brochures, including "Eye Talks," "The Eyes Have It," "The Right Way," and "Your Eye Health." There is also a scrapbook of other advertising ephemera, including calendars, negative sleeves, lens cleaning cloths, and Christmas gift suggestion lists. The collection also includes forms for advertising letters; instruction...
Dates:
1908-1928
Joseph Carson correspondence
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/292
Scope and Contents
The collection contains four letters to Joseph Carson from the publishing firm of Lindsay Blakiston concerning the production and sale of Carson's A history of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The collection also includes a letter containing resolutions made by the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on the resignation of Joseph Carson in 1876. 1. Lindsay Blakiston. Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Joseph Carson, [Philadelphia, Pa.], 1868...
Dates:
1868 - 1876
Joseph Coates certificate
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/265
Scope and Contents
Certificate, 1815 Feb. 25, admitting Joseph Coates as honorary member of Philadelphia Medical Society; signed by Benjamin Smith Barton and Mordecai Morgan.
Dates:
1815
