Military Medicine.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents Photocopies of records of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (Ohio) concerning the appointment of Dr. F.H. Patton there, 1884-1893; photocopies of the military pension papers of F.H. Patton, 1880-1894; excerpts from The History of the Twelfth Regiment, [West Virginia infantry] by William Hewitt, 1892; and a copy of the Winchester-Frederick County, Va. Historical Society Journal, vol. IV, 1989, containing an article by Mark Miner, "First Fight, First Blood : The 12th West...