William L. Challiss lecture and matriculation tickets
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/159
Scope and Contents
This small collection documents the medical education of William
L. Challiss at Jefferson Medical College, 1847-1848. The collection
contains one matriculation card for the 18481849 academic session
and admission cards to the lectures of Franklin Bache, Robley
Dunglison, Robert M. Huston, Charles D. Meigs, John K. Mitchell,
Thomas D. Mutter, and Joseph Pancoast. There is also one card
admitting Challiss to lectures at the Philadelphia School of
Anatomy in 1847.
Dates
- 1847 - 1849
Creator
- Challiss, William L. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
William L. Challiss of Burlington, New Jersey, received his M.D.
from Jefferson Medical College in 1849; his thesis was on dysentery. In 1890, Challiss was practicing medicine in Woodlawn, Kansas;
in 1893, he was practicing in Atchison, Kansas. He died circa
1896.
Extent
1 folder
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
Small collections
Custodial History
The William L. Challiss Collection was donated to the Historical
Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by
Mrs. Warren Dickinson of Glenside, Pennsylvania, on 12 August
1983.
The collection was processed and catalogued in 1990.
The collection was processed and catalogued in 1990.
- Admission tickets
- Bache, Franklin
- Dunglison, Robley
- Huston, Robert M. (Robert Mendenhall)
- Jefferson Medical College
- Medical colleges -- Lectures and lecturing
- Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century
- Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena)
- Mitchell, John Kearsley
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent)
- Pancoast, Joseph
- Philadelphia School of Anatomy
Creator
- Challiss, William L. (Person)
- Title
- William L. Challiss lecture and matriculation tickets
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
