Correspondence
Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Rush correspondence
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/096
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a reply by Benjamin Rush and twelve other Philadelphia physicians, Charles Caldwell, William Dewees,
John Redman Coxe, Philip Syng Physick, James Reynolds, Francis Bowes Sayre, John C. Otto, William
Boys, Samuel Cooper, James Stuart, Felix Pascalis Ouviere, and Joseph Strong, to inquiry of Thomas
Mifflin on 1797 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Rush maintains yellow fever is identical with bilious
remitting fever of warm climates, discusses source of 1797...
Dates:
1800, undated
George Green papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/013
Scope and Contents
The contents of this commonplace book of George Green, Sr., divide
naturally into three series: medical lecture notes and examination
questions, many from the Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania, 1817-1820; copies or drafts of personal correspondence,
1824 and undated; and poetry, literary sentences, and miscellaneous
writings, 1858-1860 and undated. Medical items in the volume include a copy of notes on Philip Syng
Physick's lecture on inflammation,...
Dates:
1817 - 1860
William Clift letter to Philip Syng Physick
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/219
Scope and Contents
Letter of William Clift to Philip Syng Physick, 1835 May 8, describes care of pathological collections of John Hunter since Hunter’s death in 1793; extracts concerning pathological specimens made from Hunter’s papers and manuscripts before their destruction; production of catalogue; and current inaccessibility of museum collections due to construction in the library of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Type of reproduction--Photocopy (positive).
Dates:
1835-05-08
