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D. Hayes Agnew presidential address
Collection
Identifier: CPP 2/008-01
Scope and Contents
Typescript address of D. Hayes Agnew (1818-1892), summarizing activities of College of Physicians of Philadelphia during 1890. Discusses papers delivered at College meetings, additions to Mütter Museum, accessions of Library, profits from Directory for Nurses, and names of Fellows who died during the year. Includes holograph notes, some belonging to S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914), Vice President of the College, who delivered address to College in Agnew’s absence, 3 Dec. 1890.Published...
Dates:
1890-12-03
D. Heber Plank ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/277-02
Scope and Contents
Ledger, 1865-1868, of accounts of unknown merchant in Caernarvon township, Pa., used as index and file for correspondence, 1882-1899, of physician D. Heber Plank. Correspondence file contains incoming letters and drafts of outgoing letters concerning family genealogical research; analyses of manganese ore found by Plank in Bucks County; notes on medical cases; Plank’s application as examining physician for local pension board; and personal financial and estate matters. Includes correspondence...
Dates:
1865-1899 (span).; Majority of material found within 1882 - 1899
D. Heber Plank papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/277-01
Scope and Contents
The collection contains ten volumes of financial papers documenting
the Morgantown, Pa., medical practice of D. Heber Plank, 1868-1908;
there are two ledgers and two combined ledger and cash books,
six daybooks, and associated financial papers.The ledgers and cash books, 1868-1908, are organized by account
name and list the service performed, date, and fee charged;
there are occasional notes on cases, patients, and settlement
of accounts. Each volume includes an index to...
Dates:
1868 - 1908
D. Stratton Woodruff Papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 423
Overview
D. Stratton Woodruff M.D. (1924-2006) specialized in family medicine in the Bryn Mawr area of Pennsylvania. In 1975, he co-founded the Bryn Mawr Family Practice Residency program with Dr. Ian Ballard. As of now (2019), the program continues to train doctors in family medicine practice. The D. Stratton Woodruff Papers span from the 1930s to 1986. The small collection includes four quarantine signs circa 1930s and a copy of the script of a speech Dr. Woodruff delivered at his Lower...
Dates:
1930 - 1986
Daniel J. Swinney papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/085
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Daniel J. Swinney's student lecture
notes and related papers, recipe book, daybook, and vaccination
records, 1808-1827, documents the education and early medical
career of an obscure country physician during the early 19th
century.The collection is divided into two series. Series 1 concerns
Swinney's medical education at the University of Pennsylvania,
1808-1809, and includes a receipt for his 1808-1809 session
fee; an 1809 copy of Benjamin Rush's...
Dates:
1808 - 1827
Daniel Joseph McCarthy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/348
Overview
The Daniel Joseph McCarthy Papers document portions of McCarthy’s medical career, particularly his writings and addresses on psychiatry and medical jurisprudence. As a prominent neurologist and medical jurisprudence expert, McCarthy treated wounded soldiers in the First World War, taught for thirty-five years at the University of Pennsylvania, and founded several research and benevolent medical foundations. The collection contains three series; “Writings and Addresses,” “Subject Files,” and...
Dates:
1902, 1921-1933, undated
David Lewis autograph letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/045
Scope and Contents
Letters describe David W. Lewis’s life and experiences as a medical student at Jefferson Medical College,
1845-1846, and his first private practice in Ebensburg, Pa., in 1846. Most of the content dwells on the difficulties
of Lewis’ separation from his fiancee, Maria; there is also a great deal of religious speculation. One letter, 11
Dec. 1845, mentions illness among the students, and another, [ca. 7 Jan. 1846], describes an outbreak of
smallpox in Philadelphia and a debate over vaccination as...
Dates:
1845 - 1846
David Ramsay letter to Jedidiah Morse
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/086
Scope and Contents
Letter, 14 Dec. 1813, concerns printing and distribution of Ramsay’s Memoirs of the life of Martha Laurens
Ramsay (1811) and projected first volume of his Universal history Americanized (1819). Typescript
transcript of letter by Samuel X Radbill, [ca. 1987], is included.
Published in Brunhouse, Robert L., "David Ramsay, 1749-1815: Selections from His Writings," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S. vol. 55, pt. 4 (1965), pp. 177-178.
Published in Brunhouse, Robert L., "David Ramsay, 1749-1815: Selections from His Writings," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S. vol. 55, pt. 4 (1965), pp. 177-178.
Dates:
1813-12-14
David Wright diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/321
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a diary, 1835-1854 (Bulk 1839-1852), kept by British naval surgeon David Wright, b.1790. The diary contains periodic, sometime daily, entries describing the weather and events of the day. The bulk of the diary regards the personal, especially legal and financial, affairs of David Wright, but some entries relate to medical and naval activity. David Wright kept the diary while in London. Some entries may have been made by his wife. During at least part of the time the...
Dates:
1835 - 1854; Majority of material found within 1839 - 1852
David Y. Cooper collection of notes, articles, and graphs (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1999-003
Scope and Contents note
This collection is is comprised of notes, research articles and graphs used in the original research of Cytochrome p-450 at the University of Pennsylvania. It also includes reprints and photostats of articles by Otto Warburg, Julius Axelrod, David Y. Cooper, and others. There are handwritten notes, possibly by Cooper; a laboratory notebook (labeled vol. 6) with experiment data; photographs of the apparatus; and charts of data (some oversize). Additionally, there is a Pennsylvania vanity license...
Dates:
1927-1983
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- Correspondence 348
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- University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine 39
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- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
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- Wood, George B. (George Bacon) 10
- Chapman, Nathaniel 9
- Coxe, John Redman 8
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
- Osler, William, Sir 8
- Dunglison, Robley 7
- Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
- Leidy, Joseph 7
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 7
- Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
- Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
- Physick, Philip Syng 7
- Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 7
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Medical History 6
- Mitchell, Silas Weir 6
- Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 6
- Carson, Joseph 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Building Committee 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Treasurer 5
- Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
- Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
- Jackson, Samuel 5
- Radbill, Samuel X. 5
- United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
- University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
- Ashhurst, Astley Paston Cooper 4
- Bache, Franklin 4
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- Blockley Almshouse 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library Committee 4
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- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Women's Committee 4
- Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
- Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
- Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr. 4
- Gibson, William 4
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- McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
- Medical Library Association 4
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- Parrish, Joseph 4
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- Pepper, William 4
- Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 4
- Santee, E. A. (Ephraim A.) 4
- Stillé, Alfred 4
- Sturgis, Samuel Booth 4
- Tyson, James 4
- United States. Navy 4
- Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
- Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Board of Trustees 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of Advancement 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Executive Director 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on General Medicine 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Ophthalmology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Otolaryngology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trustees of the Building Fund 3
- Curie, Marie 3
- Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
- Dorsey, John Syng 3
- Hare, Robert 3
- Harvard Medical School 3
- Hinsdale, Guy 3
- Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John) 3
- James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
- Medical Documentation Service (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena) 3
- Micozzi, Marc S. 3
- Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley) 3
- Muller, George P. (George Paul) 3
- Neilson, Thomas R. (Thomas Rundle) 3
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- Philadelphia General Hospital. School of Nursing 3
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