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Thomas Parke notebook

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 2/099

Scope and Contents

Volume of Parke’s notes, 1767, on Pierre Joseph Macquer’s Elements of the theory and practice of chymistry (1764), considering elements and their interactions; Geoffroy’s table of comparative affinities; and metals and their ores. Volume also includes Parke’s notes of examination questions on anatomy and chemistry given to graduates of the College of Philadelphia’s Medical School in 1769. Examiners include Adam Kuhn, John Morgan, and William Shippen.

Dates: 1767 - 1769

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

Thomas R. Neilson papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 2/021

Scope and Contents This collection of Thomas R. Neilson's papers touches on many areas of the professional career and personal life of this Philadelphia physician, surgeon, and teacher. The bulk of the collection, comprised of professional correspondence and surgical case records, comes from a narrow period of time, 1888 to 1892, years when Neilson was approaching middle age and was well advanced in medical career. His early education, family affairs, and financial situation are also documented....

Dates: 1865 - 1937

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

Thomas Ruston papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 2/137

Scope and Contents This small collection of manuscripts, 1764-1802, documents the education, medical career, and personal life of Thomas Ruston. Items in the collection relating to Ruston's medical education at the University of Edinburgh include notes on two lectures on the pulse delivered by William Cullen with drafts of three letters by Ruston describing his affairs, 1764-1765; petitions signed by the students of the university, protesting the lack of regulations in granting degrees, 1764; and an...

Dates: 1764 - 1802

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

Thomas W. Bawdin notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 2/201

Scope and Contents

Contains notes on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine and John Syng Dorsey on materia medica in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1817 January 7-February 12.

Dates: 1817

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

Timothy Hall recipe book

Collection — Volume: 1

Identifier: MSS 2/285

Scope and Contents

Volume of medical and household recipes of physician Timothy Hall, 1823-1834. Includes notes on use, dosage, and sources of information.

Dates: 1823 - 1834

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

Traill Green papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 2/221

Scope and Contents This collection of the personal papers of Traill Green (1813-1897), spanning 1845 to 1868, consists of correspondence, case descriptions of patients, a committee report, the transcript of a speech, excerpts from published materials, and other miscellaneous items.Series 1, spanning 1845 to 1857, consists of letters written and received by Traill Green, many of which are drafts. Of special interest in the correspondence are Green's letters pertaining to the remains of a...

Dates: 1845 - 1868

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

Travel diary and other writings [anonymous]

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSS 2/178

Scope and Contents This small collection contains the holograph diary of the physician from his 1910-1911 voyage to Arabia, India, and Africa, as well as the itinerary from his 1929 voyage to Sweden and Poland, and a few poems.The 1910-1911 diary contains the physician's account of his experiences and sights on his journey from Philadelphia, across the Atlantic and Mediterranean to Egypt, around Arabia and through the Persian Gulf to India, around the coast of Africa, and back across the...

Dates: 1910 - 1911

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

Truman G. Schnabel, Jr., Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 380

Abstract The Truman G. Schnabel, Jr., Papers date from 1908 to 2007 and represent Schnabel’s career at Philadelphia General Hospital and in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medicine, as well as the numerous professional medical organizations in which he was involved. The collection is divided into eight series: Boards, Committees, and Groups; Correspondence; Foundations; Lectures, Speeches, and Talks; Personal Files; Philadelphia General Hospital; Published Articles; and Truman G....

Dates: 1908 - 2007

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

Truman Squire Potter speeches

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 2/149

Scope and Contents

Two addresses by Truman Squire Potter, "Respiratory disease parasites respire themselves and can be suffocated", (typescript, 10 p.), [ca. 1943], and "A pickle for a parasite", (typescript, 3 p.), [ca. 1943]; both concern research on vaccination against tuberculosis using asphyxiated mycobacterium tuberculosis. Includes press release, 1943 Dec. 3, concerning Potter’s work at Laboratory of Preventive Medicine of the University of Chicago.

Dates: 1943

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

Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon ephemera

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: MSS 415

Abstract In South Philadelphia, at the corner of Washington Avenue and Swanson Street, a neighborhood grocer named Barzilai Brown began distributing food to soldiers traveling to and from the nearby Navy Yard and railroads. This operation, originally referred to as “Brown’s,” became the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon on May 27, 1861. The establishment grew and became a place of rest, relaxation, and, of course, refreshment for travel-weary soldiers, whom the saloon provided with food, drink,...

Dates: 1862

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

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Thomas Parke notebook

Thomas R. Neilson papers

Thomas Ruston papers

Thomas W. Bawdin notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

Timothy Hall recipe book

Traill Green papers

Travel diary and other writings [anonymous]

Truman G. Schnabel, Jr., Papers

Truman Squire Potter speeches

Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon ephemera

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