The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library

Items (2756 total)

Autographed letter from Dr. Carlos Finlay requesting an opportunity to meet with the members of the Academy of Sciences in Havana, 1878
Revolutionary War document describing arrest of the perpetrators of a Loyalist plot to spread smallpox & counterfeit currency among the rebellious colonies, signed by Dr. Josiah Bartlett, physician signer of the Declaration of Independence, April 1777
A contemporary photograph of vaccinated and non-vaccinated men with smallpox from 1904, demonstrating the effects of immunization
Selectmen of Raynham, Massachusetts vote that there should be an inoculating hospitals in the houses of three inhabitants, with Dr. David Cobb as physician
Revolutionary War-era document of a smallpox meeting at Johnston, Rhode Island, 1776, deciding to quarantine infected townspeople in their homes
The only English translation of Antoine Chaumette’s 16th century text “Enchiridon Chirurgicum”, a beautiful vellum-bound folio manuscript written in 1715
One of the earliest handwritten Colonial medical documents: A 1709 handwritten medical bill for services performed, including bloodletting, by Dr. Samuel Law from Concord, Massachusetts
A handwritten certificate of commission to a loyalist surgeon in the army of the English colony of Rhode Island from Henry Ward, Secretary of the General Assembly three weeks after the Lexington-Concord battle, 1775
A detailed handwritten invoice 1761-1765 for medical care from Dr. Thomas Cadwalader, a founding father of Philadelphia medicine, early inoculator, and co-founder of the Pennsylvania Hospital
"Dispensing with Women's Health" – A 1728 Manuscript written by Thomas Mapples, surgeon & apothecary - Perhaps the first recorded manuscript of the medical remedies of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals
An autograph document from John Quincy Adams, while senator from Massachusetts, defending Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, first vaccinator in the united states, regarding a controversy over his smallpox vaccine with the Massachusetts Medical Society, circa 1806
Manuscript booklet of medical recipes written by Doctor Levi Bartlett, student of Doctor Thomas Kittridge and son of Declaration of Independence signer Dr. Josiah Bartlett, circa 1785
Original photograph of Major William C. Gorgas with Joseph Yates Porter, first Florida health officer, & William Sherman Jennings, 18th Governor of Florida, discussing yellow fever at the Playa del Marianao, Cuba, December 18, 1902
Document authorizing Dr. David Townsend, Surgeon General, to appropriate a private house as a hospital for the Continental Army in April 1776
Letter from Dr. William Shippen, Continental Army Director of Hospitals, appointing David Townsend, MD, to command the Army Hospital at Fishkill, New York, in 1780