Copies of published articles on many aspects of gerontology and geriatrics, including the history and bibliography of the field. The collection also contains a curriculum vitae and a biographical sketch of Dr. Freeman from an introduction by Marie Norton, Lankenau Hospital librarian, 1987.
Information concerning the life of John Perkins Pratt (JMC 1900), including transcripts and matriculation record from Centre College, Danville, Ky., 1889-1894; photocopy of death certificate indicating cocaine poisoning, Montgomery Co., Md., 1902; a death notice in the Montgomery Co. (Md.) Sentinel, May 9, 1902; and a letter to C. P. Pratt from W. Draper Lewis, Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Law, 23 May 1902, concerning the death of Pratt's son.
Correspondence and notes concerning treatment by Dr. Shallow of a 16-year-old female diagnosed with chronic cystic mastitis of both breasts.
Collection contains glass lantern slides and transparency slides used mostly in clinical lectures. There is also one box of 1974-1982 campus renovation photographs.
A phrenology key, cut out in the outline of a human head, published by Fowler and Wells Co., N.Y., 1885, explaining the types of mental faculties that correspond to different parts of the head. The key is accompanied by several other sheets cut out in the same shape and with handwritten notes pertaining to phrenology and also anatomical structures of the brain.
Handwritten essay probably written as an academic requirement at Jefferson Medical College.
Cards addressed to "Dr. Lightner, Ephrata, Lancaster Co." announcing meetings of the Society on Feb. 2 and July 6, 1881. Addressee is believed to be Samuel B. Lightner.
Prescription book of William E. Shaffer, a Washington, D.C., pharmacist and friend of Paltridge, accompanied by a photograph of Paltridge on his 80th birthday in 1951. On the envelope enclosing the photo Paltridge explains that "many of the formulae in the book are prescriptions of prominent physicians of the late 1880's and early 1900's who practiced in Washington, D.C."