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Sarah Edith Ives Cogan surgical casebook
Collection
Identifier: 10b 17
Scope and Contents
One typescript volume ([5], 75 leaves) of surgical cases presented by John B. Roberts at the Woman’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Cases dated 1 Oct. 1897 to 15 April 1898. Preliminary leaves include index of diagnoses and notes on preparatory measures for an operation.
Dates:
1897 - 1898
Sarah Hunloke ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/275
Saul Jarcho papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/157
Scope and Contents
The collection contains Saul Jarcho's files on three paleopathology
projects, 1961-1975. Series 1 contains four folders of correspondence,
1966-1968, concerning the formation of the International Paleopathology
Association. The bulk of this correspondence is between Jarcho
and Abner Irving Weisman, who founded the Association in 1966.
The International Paleopathology Association seems to have
been discontinued circa 1968.Series 2 contains Saul Jarcho's correspondence...
Dates:
1961 - 1975
[Scrapbook of anti-vaccination clippings]
Collection
Identifier: MSS 477
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook contains clippings of articles, reports, letters to the editor, etc. related to and expressing opposition to vaccination, especially compulsory vaccination. Many reports are from Muncie, Terre Haute, and other parts of Indiana, but coverage also includes Brooklyn, Chicago, Milwaukee, and parts of England. The clippings focus on the arguments against vaccination, including letters to the editor and responses to letters signed by “Anti-Vaccination” or “Anti;” court...
Dates:
1887; 1892-1897
Shelflist of the Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 13/010-08
Silas Weir Mitchell collection
Series
Identifier: MSS 2/241-04
Scope and Contents note
The Silas Weir Mitchell collection contains material related to the personal and professional activities of Philadelphia-area physician and author Silas Weir Mitchell, as well as members of his family. This collection consists of selected manuscripts, photographs, and published material that have been separated from a larger collection by Norman Kane (A.B.A.A., Emeritus), and acquired by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.This collection is arranged into five series;...
Dates:
1888-1930
Silas Weir Mitchell correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 436
Abstract
Silas Weir Mitchell was born in Philadelphia in 1829. He earned his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Mitchell worked as a contract surgeon in Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia, an army hospital for nervous diseases. was actively involved in numerous local and national medical societies. He was founder and first president of the American Neurological Society and first president of the Philadelphia Neurological Society. In later...
Dates:
1865-1938; Majority of material found in 1883-1887; 1910-1911
Silas Weir Mitchell letter to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/241-02
Scope and Contents
Letter, 1911 Mar. 26, naming John Shaw Billings as custodian of Benjamin Rush watch (later part of Abbe Cabinet of College of Physicians of Philadelphia), following Mitchell’s death. Note from College Secretary John H. Girvin indicating, since Billings’ death preceded Mitchell’s, Simon Flexner appointed next custodian.
Dates:
1911-03-26
Silas Weir Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/241-03
Scope and Contents note
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1850-1928; Bulk, 1850-1928 1788-1949
[Silas Weir Mitchell] typescript on François Villon
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/241-01
Scope and Contents
Typescript address before unknown audience with contemporary and later holograph emendations, attributed to S. Weir Mitchell, circa 1897. Mitchell describes life of poet François Villon. Includes remarks on Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.
Dates:
circa 1897
