Speeches (documents)

This collection dates from 1908 to 1985, and consists of single files containing documentation left by various College Presidents. Researchers should note that there is not a substantial amount of information regarding any one President’s term found in this collection.

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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.

Address for University of Pennsylvania’s Celebration of Medical Progress, 10-11 Oct. 1930, but never delivered. Morgan highlights university’s outstanding events, individuals, such as Benjamin Franklin, John Morgan, and Benjamin Rush, and contributions to medicine.

Holograph, 24 p., and typescript copy, 10 p., of Hutt’s address to 7th International Congress on Tuberculosis, Rome, Italy, 1911. Hutt describes his work in the 1870s with Philadelphia Protestant Episcopal City Mission to establish first hospital for consumptives at the House of Mercy and promote outdoor method of treatment for tuberculosis.

Manuscript of address to Philadelphia County Medical Society on 26 Apr. 1876. Taylor contends emotional or mental state of a mother can affect unborn child during pregnancy. He cites several examples, including spina bifida, strabismus, cleft palate, and various wounds, marks, and deformations, all connected with some prenatal sight or occurrence.

Additional Form: Published in Philadelphia Medical Times, vol. 7, no. 4., 1876.