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Southern Medical Society of Philadelphia cartes de visites (unprocessed)

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-008
Scope and Contents note

This is an album of cabinet card photographs ("cartes de visites") of notable physicians. Includes images of William Pepper, David Hayes Agnew, Hugh Lenox Hodge, Joseph Leidy, Alfred Stillé; Andrew Smiley; William Savage, and Robert Penrose. Also includes one photograph of an unknown building, possibly the Southern Medical Society.

Dates: 1868
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

St. Clair Streett notes on the lectures on Benjamin Smith Barton

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/121
Scope and Contents

Student notes on lectures of Benjamin Smith Barton on botany and materia medica at University of Pennsylvania, 12 November 1811 to 22 February 1812, by St. Clair Streett. Subjects are considered under headings: astringents, tonics, stimulants, narcotics, conifera, siliquosa, alliaciae, errhines, and sialogogues. Includes observations on medical uses of opium.

Dates: 1811 - 1812
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

St. John W. Mintzer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/019
Scope and Contents This extensive collection of the papers of St.John Watkins Mintzer documents the life and career of a 19th century physician, soldier, and businessman. Although the bulk of the papers concern his administration of Civil War hospitals, the collection also contains information about the operation of Philadelphia's eclectic medical schools, the work of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas and Mississippi, and some unusual business ventures of the day.Materials preserved in Series 1...
Dates: 1847 - 1912
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Stanley Plotkin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/353
Abstract Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., has authored and co-authored over 700 publications and developed the standard rubella vaccination which is used worldwide. He is the co-developer of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine, and has worked extensively on the development and application of other vaccines including anthrax, oral polio, rabies, varicella, and cytomegalovirus. The collection houses reprints, correspondence, testimonies, and lab reports, pertaining to the controversy of the origin of HIV and...
Dates: 1956-1959, 1999-2003
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Stephen Cheek essay on yellow fever

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/103
Scope and Contents

"An inaugural essay on yellow fever: presented to the faculty of the Philadelphia College of Medicine for the degree of doctor in medicine" Cheek maintains yellow fever itself is not contagious but communicable only under certain climatic conditions. He then discusses the yellow fever outbreak in New Orleans in 1853 and describes symptoms and possible methods of treatment.

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

Sturgis-Faber collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-SFABER
Abstract

Medical illustrations, portraits, and other original artwork by Hermann Faber, and his two sons, Ludwig E. and Erwin F., of Philadelphia, for George A. Piersol's 1907 edition of Human Anatomy and other publications. Approximately 300 items in 6 boxes. A full inventory of the items is available in the Library's card catalog.

Dates: circa 1907
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Sturgis Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-STURGIS
Abstract The Sturgis Photograph Collection was donated to the College in the early 1980s by Doctors Katharine R. and Samuel B. Sturgis. It contains a large number of the College's pictures and oversize documents (diplomas, certificates, etc.). The subjects of the materials range from portraits of physicians, early hospital buildings, group photographs of medical societies, and class photographs of medical school students, to lecture matriculation cards and medical illustrations. Researchers should...
Dates: undated
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Subscribers lists for the stacks fund

 Item
Identifier: CPP 13/010-04
Abstract

Previously catalogued as 10a 285.

Dates: 1897
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Frederick William Sunderman Christmas greeting cards featuring original photographs and poetry

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 447
Scope and Contents

This small collection consists of Christmas greeting cards created with original photography and poetry by Frederick William Sunderman.

Dates: 1947; 1966-1985; 1995-2002
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Surgical Case Records of Presbyterian Hospital

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 429
Abstract Presbyterian Hospital was founded in 1871 by the Alliance of Philadelphia Presbyteries as a 45-bed facility on 2.5 acres. The incorporators declared the purpose was “to provide medical and surgical aid and nursing for the sick and disabled...” Care and nursing was granted to the indigent of Philadelphia, funded by donations from individuals and Presbyterian churches, to fulfill its Christian mission. This commitment was renewed in 1952, when the trustees of the Hospital voted against...
Dates: 1892-1894
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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Correspondence 355
Minutes 110
Lecture notes 106
Reports 91
Financial records 78
Photographs 69
Clippings 49
Speeches (documents) 38
Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 37
Medicine -- Practices 36
Committees 35
Ledgers (account books) 34
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Materia Medica 30
Patient records 29
Medical libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 28
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Patients 23
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Certificates 18
Pathology 17
Physiology 17
Research notes 17
Admission tickets 16
Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 16
Genealogies (histories) 15
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Physicians -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 15
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Chemistry 14
Library catalogs 14
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Fellows 13
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Medical museums 13
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Women in medicine 12
Yellow Fever 12
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Philadelphia (Pa.) 11
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Collections management (Libraries) 10
Fever 10
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University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine 41
College of Physicians of Philadelphia 40
University of Pennsylvania 40
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library 35
Rush, Benjamin 24
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the President 20
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Secretary 17
Chapman, Nathaniel 16
Jefferson Medical College 16
Philadelphia General Hospital 16
Fisher, Charles Perry 13
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Curator 10
Mütter Museum 10
Wood, George B. (George Bacon) 10
Coxe, John Redman 9
Physick, Philip Syng 9
Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
Osler, William, Sir 8
Dunglison, Robley 7
Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
Hodge, H. Lenox (Hugh Lenox) 7
Leidy, Joseph 7
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 7
Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
Roberts, John Bingham 7
Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 7
Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia 7
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Medical History 6
Mitchell, Silas Weir 6
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
Ashhurst, Astley Paston Cooper 4
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
Gibson, William 4
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
Abbe, Robert 3
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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