Invoices
Subject
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Found in 4 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
Benjamin Rush papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 426
Abstract
Benjamin Rush, Philadelphia physician, in 1745 o.s. in Byberry Township. In 1768, he received his M.D. from the University of Edinburgh. He helped to establish the Philadelphia Dispensary and was a physician there until his death. Rush was also a member of the Provincial Congress in 1776, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and, in 1777, became Surgeon General of the Continental Army. He was a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia from 1787 to 1793.The...
Dates:
undated
Reverend Frank L. Norton collection of physicians' invoices
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/267
Scope and Contents
This is a small collection of bills for medical and dental services, 1877-1881, provided to Reverend Frank L. Norton and his wife from several physicians in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, and New York. The bills list fees charged. Physicians represented are: C. H. Atwater, J. P. Bloss, Reed B. Bontecou, W. W. Clapp, William Baker Crain, F. D. Edgerton, I. N. Goff, L. B. Hoff, Frederick I. Knight, P. Brynberg Porter, and E. Z. Webster.
Dates:
1877 - 1881
Thomas Bond correspondence
Item — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 418
Abstract
Thomas Bond was an American physician and surgeon. He was born May 2, 1713, in Calvert County, Maryland. In 1751 he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first medical facility in the American colonies, with Benjamin Franklin, and also volunteered his services there as both physician and teacher. During the Revolutionary War, Bond helped to organize the medical department of the Continental Army. He established the first American field hospitals during the conflict. He was also a...
Dates:
1741; 1760; 1773; 1776
