Medical records

The collection includes a packet of 50 blank clinical charts designed for hospital and private practice, 1913, by James C. Wilson, M.D., physician and member of the faculty at Jefferson Medical College. Also in the collection but unrelated to these materials are two newspaper clippings related to the arrival of Jefferson staff in Cairo, Egypt, in Oct. 1942 to set up the 38th General Hospital, where Dr. Garver served as a dentist, and an Arabic-language edition of Reader's Digest, [1937?].

Anonymous bound notes on 92 patient cases treated, mostly indigent women diagnosed with melancholia, mania, senile dementia and other mental illnesses, or else in the hospital for obstetrical care. Some male patients are also included among the cases. Most cases documented with charts tipped in.

Handwritten notes on two clinical cases (hospital unknown), and thereafter general notes on a variety of medical topics.

Matriculation receipts and graduation materials, Jefferson Medical College, 1891-93; notes and receipts, mostly concerning patients requiring Turner's attention at the Charity Hospital, 1892-93; death notices and a clipping concerning an incident involving an adverse reaction to cocaine at Jefferson Hospital, ca. 1893; Dr. Morris Longstreth's reply to an article in the Journal of Medicine and Science, Apr. 1901; and noticies concerning the death of John Milton Campbell, 1893.

Collection contains Thomas Jefferson University Hospital annual reports, charity ball files, administration files, maternity files, facilities management files, Executive Committee records, hospital death registers, expansion and development files, birth indices, finance files, social services records, gross revenue information, physical plant managment files, medical education files, employee benefits, studies, manuals, Medical Director subject files.