Gerard van Swieten dictata in materia medica finding aid
Title
Gerard van Swieten dictata in materia medica
Description
This collection consists of eight volumes of medical writings in Latin concerning nutrition, pharmacy, and surgery. Several pages at the beginning of Volume I, and a few pages elsewhere, are translated into English on the facing pages.
Creator
Swieten, Gerard, Freiherr van, 1700-1772
Date
1733
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the practice of medicine and the causes and treatment of fevers., Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 110 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.1 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on various diseases, their causes and treatments., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769. He died in 1813., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 125 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.16 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on human emotions., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769. He died in 1813., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 122 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.13 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the prognosis of various fevers., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 113 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.4 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769. He died in 1813., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 123 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.14 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on various respiratory and digestive disorders., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769. He died in 1813., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 119 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.10 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the diagnosis and treatment of various neurological disorders., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769. He died in 1813., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 118 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.9 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine: Gastritis, enteritis, splenitis, nephritis, cystitis, otalgia, hemorrhoids, opthalmia, phlogasis, gangrene, sphacelus, paronychia, anthrax, burns and frozen, hemorrhages, hemoptysis, epitasis, ho
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases., Note at the beginning of the notebook mentions the introduction of new subject matter "next year 1804.", Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
1803?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 116 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.7 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 114 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.5 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on various types of fevers., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 112 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.3 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110; not all pages are numbered., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the practice of medicine and the causes and treatment of fevers.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 111 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.2 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on various diseases and ailments, and their causes and treatments., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769. He died in 1813., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 124 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.15 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on mental illnesses and psychiatric disorders., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769. He died in 1813., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 121 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.12 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on mental illness and psychiatric disorders., Page 501 is dated January 5, 1790., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered, and pagination is not sequential.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
1790?]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 120 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.11 (Rush)
Peter Renaudet medical apprentice notebook finding aid
Title
Peter Renaudet medical apprentice notebook
Description
This collection consists of a medical apprentice notebook containing the observations of a mid-18th century New York apprentice, Peter Renaudet. It is a record of clinical cases, in which Renaudet describes the patient's ailments, treatments prescribed and the result of those treatments. Common ailments include dropsy (edema) and costiveness (constipation). Purging, letting and herbal remedies are often recommended remedies.
Creator
Renaudet, Peter
George Gillespie notes taken from Dr. Thomas Young’s Lectures on Midwifery finding aid
Title
George Gillespie notes taken from Dr. Thomas Young's Lectures on Midwifery
Description
This collection consists of two volumes which contain what appears to be verbatim notes taken by George Gillespie from Dr. Young's Lectures on Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh in 1761. The first volume primarily focuses on the history of midwifery, basic female anatomy and common gynecological problems and disorders. Topics in the second volume include techniques for removing the placenta, laborious labors, use of the forceps, properties of different kinds of milk, and a host of possible complications. Both volumes contain an index.
Creator
Gillespie, George
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769. He died in 1813., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 117 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.8 (Rush)
Lecture notes by Benjamin Rush on the Practice of medicine
Description
Title devised by cataloger., Manuscript notebook of lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases., Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769., Paginated continuously from Vol. 110. Not all pages are numbered.
Creator
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date
between 1769 and 1813]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia Library Company Philadelphia Rush MSS Vol. 115 (Professorship at University of Pennsylvania) Yi2 7394.F.6 (Rush)
Hahnemann Hospital and Medical College postcards.
Title
Hahnemann Hospital and Medical College postcards
Description
Exterior views of Hahnemann medical college and hospital building occupied circa 1885 after the Homeopathic Medical College merged with the Hospital of Philadelphia to create Hahnemann. This gothic structure was razed in 1928 to make way for a new 20 story hospital building., Contains 3 postcards printed in color and 2 printed in black and white., Sheet numbers: 108B03, 153A01A and 153A01B., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Brightbill, George M., collector
Date
1905-1913
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Brightbill postcards [Hospitals - 108] and [Schools - Miscellaneous - 153]
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Henry Ave. & Abbotsford Rd., Philadelphia.
Title
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Henry Ave. & Abbotsford Rd., Philadelphia
Description
Aerial view of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, located at 3200-3254 Henry Avenue in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. Depicts a five-story building with columned portico entrance (constructed circa 1925 after designs by the firm Ritter & Shay) and circular driveway lined with automobiles. The school was founded in 1850 as the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the first medical school for women in the world. It was renamed Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1970, and in 1993 it merged with Hahnemann University., Negative number: 19866n.
Creator
Aero Service Corporation, photographer
Date
July 6, 1939
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Aero Service [P.8990.19866n]
Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery.
Title
Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery
Description
Exterior view of building designed by architect Thomas Ustick Walter and built between 1849 and 1853 for the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College. Upon this school's closure in 1861, the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia, founded 1860, purchased the building and occupied it from 1863 to ca. 1874. It is unclear when the building was demolished. The Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia became the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery in 1865 and offered it's final lecture sessions between 1875-76. The Dean of the University, T.B. Miller, continued to sell bogus diplomas until 1880, when, after exposes in the Philadelphia Record, the school became extinct., Title and date from typed label on verso., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 106., Arcadia caption text: Towering above the surrounding row homes, this building at 252-254 South Ninth Street was built in 1849 after the designs of Thomas Ustick Walter. Four different medical institutions occupied the Collegiate Gothic style building in its first three decades, beginning with the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College (of Gettysburg), which merged with the Philadelphia College of Medicine in 1859. This school closed in 1861 and the Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia moved in. This institution became the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery in 1865. Shown here c. 1868, the fraudulent university granted bogus degrees until 1880., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Bartlett & French, photographer
Date
ca. 1868
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Bartlett & French - Education [P.8484.24]
The city of brotherly love.
Title
The city of brotherly love
Description
Bird's eye view from City Hall tower looking north showing the cityscape surrounding Broad Street. Identifiable buildings include Masonic Temple (1-33 North Broad, built 1868-1873, James H. Windrim, architect); the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (1344-1348 Arch, built 1869, Addison Hutton, architect); First Baptist Church (northwest cor. Broad and Arch, built 1856, Stephen Decatur Button, architect); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (118-126 North Broad, built 1872-76, Furness & Hewitt, architects); Offenbach's Garden, carriage depository or bazaar, formerly the site of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Depot (southeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets); cyclorama building that displayed the Battle of Gettyburg in the early 1890s (northeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets); Hahnemann Medical College (230 North Broad); and Roman Catholic High School (301-313 North Broad, built 1890, Edwin Forrest Durang, architect). Horse-drawn vehicles on Broad Street are also visible., Title printed on mount., Photographer's imprint printed on verso., Buff curved mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of J.F. Dallet.
Creator
Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909
Date
c1891
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Kilburn - Views [P.9418.2]
Illustrations of Philadelphia. Vol. IX. [graphic] / Vincit qui se vincit. Collected by Chas. A. Poulson.
Title
Illustrations of Philadelphia. Vol. IX
Description
Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, prints, and ephemera predominately dated 1857 and pertaining to the built environment, and social, cultural, and economic climate of Philadelphia. Majority of the contents are articles about city businesses and industries; public interest stories; editorials relating to public concerns and social mores; reports, lists, and statistics; and caricatures and cartoons. Several articles concern the new house numbering system; the chartering of Fairmount and Sedgeley parks; the Academy of Music (New Opera House), including the inaugural ball and first opera season; the temporary relocation of the Post Office; progress of Camden; volunteer fire companies, including the debate over the oldest instituted, new fire houses, and parades; fires on the 300 and 600 blocks of Chestnut (i.e., Peterson/Goodyear building and Melodion); transportation, including omnibus lines and the Camden and Atlantic, and Philadelphia and Baltimore Central railroads; and the new coinage of cents issued from the mint. Also contains numerous columns about building dedications, laying of cornerstones, and improvements and new construction to the city’s infrastructure, including Drown’s Umbrella Manufactory (86 Market); the silver plated ware establishment of John O. Mead (Ninth and Chestnut); the Butler house lot (800 block Chestnut); the hall of the "Colored Masons"; the Spring Garden district and Northwestern section of the city (Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fifteenth wards); the Pennsylvania Bank building; First Welsh Presbyterian Church (1500 Lombard); the Penn Widow’s Asylum; Washington building (000 block S. Third); and the restaurant of John Campbell (500 block Chestnut)., Other articles describe the Library Company’s receipt of the ca. 1720 Peter Cooper painting of Philadelphia; culture, politics, and economy of the year 1856; local medical schools and hospitals, including Penn Medical University, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia small-pox hospital, and Eclectic Medical College; local industries and trades, including Wood & Perot's ornamental iron work establishment, Newell & Knight barrel making machinery and the oyster trade; and Moyamensing Prison. Anecdotal columns and editorials provide commentaries about Philadelphia Insurance companies; Aprils Fools Day; servants; tramps; the city’s “noisy spot” of Third and Chestnut; the lore of stage coaches; popular catch phrases, including those from the theater; the Molly Maquires; the public expense of public lamps and paupers; the importance of newspapers, including as a more perfect venue for advertising than storefront signage; the poor use of the language in classified advertisements; storefront and tavern signages (p.41-42); and the cricket mania. Also contains historical pieces about the University of Pennsylvania; Independence Square; Chew’s Mansion; Zion Lutheran Church; and the Chinese Museum; reports, lists and statistics detailing the crime and mortality rate, sales of stocks and real estate; the retail, cattle and produce markets, meteorology and weather, telegraph use for the year, the comparative health of manufacturing cities, and architectural improvements in progress; a column about how the 1785 city directories represented the population of the city from the series "Philadelphia As It Was"; and an illustrated article about shawls., Graphics, predominately caricatures and cartoons, include lithographs, engravings, and wood engravings. Majority of cartoons satirize the hoop skirt, including the Clara and Charles series. Other cartoons satirize German beer culture, patent medicine, P.T. Barnum, and the social mores of the upper classes. Caricatures, often racist, depict African Americans while at work, including a sweeper, cook, and painter. Prints also include advertisements, vignettes, and views. Advertisements depict the Union hotel (300 block Arch); Thornley & Chism, importers, jobbers and retailers of fancy & staple dry goods (N.E. cor. Spring Garden and Eighth); Lincoln, Wood & Nichols, manufacturers and importers of straw goods; and Fairbank’s patent platform scales. Vignettes depict a knife cleaning apparatus, Olmstead stove, and a piano. Views show a genre scene titled by Poulson "An ‘omnibus’ sleigh and a 'rung' "; the Academy of Music; Jefferson Medical college, Presbyterian Church; Central Presbyterian Church; and "The Performing Elephants" at the National Circus accompanied by the classified for the performance. Scrapbook also contains ephemera, including the "Deaf and Dumb Alphabet" chart inscribed "In use at Phila Institution 1857 as per report Jany 1858" ; a "Premium medal, Franklin Institute"; and two elaborately illustrated tickets to the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society., Majority of contents annotated by Poulson with dates and explicative manuscript notes., Title page trimmed and illustrated with a ca. 1856 lithographer's advertisement issued by Wagner & McGuigan after the work of lithographer Maurice Traubel and artist William Croome. Depicts an allegorical, patriotic scene with the figure of Columbia, attired in a toga, American flag, and laurel wreath, and with a broken shackle under her foot as she stands on a pedestal., Chart "Length of Squares East and West" pasted on verso of title page., Label inscribed "The "Articles" in the book are taken from fugitive sources only; and the dates affixed to each are those of the newspapers &c from which they were procured CAP" pasted on verso of front free end paper., "Index to set in back part of vol. XI.", Insert: “Report of the President of the Girard College to the committee on Instruction September 3, 1850, Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Poulson, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1789-1866, compiler
Date
1857-1858
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Poulson scrapbooks - vol. 9 [(9)2526.F]
Logan family papers finding aid
Title
Logan family papers
Description
The Logan family was prominent in Philadelphia from the start of the province, serving the people in many capacities, including political, medical and literary. This is a collection of manuscripts obtained by the Library Company of Philadelphia that relates to the Logan family. The collection includes papers of the Logan family members Albanus Charles, Algernon Sydney, Deborah Norris, William Jr., and James as well as family materials collected by Frances A. Logan and William Logan Fox. The collection dates from 1684 to 1925 and consists of family papers, correspondence, diaries, writings, medical texts, lecture notes, financial records, poetry, visiting cards, and invitations. The collection is divided into seven series and arranged in the following order: “Albanus Charles Logan papers,” “Algernon Sydney Logan papers,” “Deborah Norris Logan papers,” “Frances Armat Logan collection,” “James Logan papers” and “William Logan Fox collection of papers relating to the Library Company of Philadelphia v. William Logan Estate.”
Date
1684