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Military Medicine.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence with the U.S. Surgeon General

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Identifier: MM-224
Scope and Contents Letters concerning the training of military officers in the armed forces in electrocardiograph and polygraph at Jefferson Medical College. Correspondents include Patterson, H. A. Hare and Theodore Janeway.
Dates: 1917 - 1919

History of the military service of Samuel W. Gross

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Identifier: MM-136
Scope and Contents Summary of Dr. Gross' military service as surgeon, U.S. Volunteers, during the Civil War, according to records in the Surgeon General's office. Document accompanied by a letter to Brinton from the Surgeon General's office, Washington, 18 Apr. 1889, describing enclosed document.
Dates: 1889

Jacob M. Da Costa Collection

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Identifier: MS-055
Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials by or about Jacob M. Da Costa, MD and his family from 1857-1903. The materials include addresses (1857-1900) to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, commencement addresses to Jefferson Medical College (1874, 1883, 1887, and 1891), an 1872 introductory lecture to Jefferson students, and clinical lectures (1887-1900, with gaps) given at Pennsylvania Hospital. Also contained in the collection are medical journal articles (1881-1899); biographical...
Dates: 1857 - 2013

Jefferson medical officers in the Mexican War : typescript and supporting documents

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Identifier: MM-347
Scope and Contents Summary of the contributions of Jefferson Medical College graduates in the Mexican War, 1845-1848. The manuscript is supplemented by photocopies of many supporting documents (mostly correspondence) retrieved from the National Archives and other archival repositories.
Dates: 1994

John Hill Brinton Collection

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Identifier: MS-013
Scope and Contents The collection consists of material by or about John Hill Brinton from 1805-1923 including addresses, correspondence, medical journal articles, genealogy, lectures, notes and certificates. The correspondence includes personal correspondence written by Brinton during his Civil War service to family members back home, letters of recommendation written by Brinton's commanding officers in the army, as well as official military orders/correspondence (many signed by Ulysses S. Grant). Of particular...
Dates: 1805 - 1934

Letter to Betty Pilling transmitting correspondence of W. W. Keen and Charles J. Pilling

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Identifier: MM-226
Scope and Contents TLS, Providence, W. W. Keen James to Betty Pilling, 23 July 1994, transmitting photocopies of two letters exchanged between Major W.W. Keen and Charles J. Pilling (president of George P. Pilling & Sons, makers of surgical instruments). The letters dated 3 January and 11 Feb. 1919 pertain to Keen's efforts to raise support for Belgian and French doctors during World War I by arranging for shipments of medical instruments.
Dates: Majority of material found in 1919 - 1919

Military papers and letters

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Identifier: MM-183
Scope and Contents Order and announcement concerning awarding of the Silver Star to Capt. Seligman for gallantry in action at Leyte, 1944; letter (ALS), Okinawa, 3 July 1945, to Dr. Adolph Walkling of Jefferson Medical College Hospital; and two Japanese occupation currency notes.
Dates: 1944 - 1945

Nursing papers and photographic album

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Identifier: MM-005
Scope and Contents Application of Mary S. Longacre for admission to the Jefferson Hospital Training School for Nurses, ca. 1915; corespondence 1920, 1930, concerning professional reference and membership; membership cards to various nursing organizations, 1924-1937; and pages from a photo album showing nurses, doctors and children, n.d. Includes clipping of Mar. 20, 1919 concerning Jefferson Hospital nurses returning from war service at Camp 38 in Europe.
Dates: 1915 - 1937

Papers

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Identifier: MM-061
Scope and Contents Two copies of a 7-page biographical sketch of Dr. Francis Marion Bledsoe (1836-1901) by his grandson Malcolm Lester, 1988; printed card from College and Clinical Record, 1893, giving the English translation of the Latin text of the Jefferson Medical College diploma.
Dates: 1893 - 1988

Papers

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Identifier: MM-051
Scope and Contents Military commissions, 1918; certificate of membership in the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, 1910; other records of military service and honors; and biographical information.
Dates: 1895 - 1945