Kampman copied this document at the request of John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder "for the information of the [American] Philosophical Society," and Heckewelder transmitted it to the Society.

Round wooden container with red wax seal with Caduceus symbol in center. Around perimeter: "Societas chirurgi civita." Two greenish ribbons are attached to both sides of the seal. Tape with "1958 2229 me" on reverse.

This volume contains sections pertaining to the theory and practice of pharmacy, a distribution of medicinal simples, directions for extemporaneous prescriptions, and an instruction for disease diagnosis.

These are sixty letters to William Clark, a physician in London and Bradford, Wiltshire.

This paper, concerning David Hosack, and including illustrations, was presented at Princeton's Medical History Seminar in 1920.

All but one of these letters are to Charles Alston, the professor of botany at Edinburgh University, and concern medicine, botany, and science in general. They are dated between 1737 and 1750. One letter is to George Whately, dated 1778.

These cards of admission were to lectures held at the University of Pennsylvania, St. George's Hospital (London), and the University of Edinburgh. Rush has written comments on the lecturers on the backs of several of the cards.

These papers include correspondence concerning the publication and republication of Wood's "Dispensatory of the United States" and "Treatise on Therapeutics and Pharmacology, or Materia Medica" by J.B. Lippincott & Co. Also included are twelve diplomas and certificates of membership in American and European professional societies.

This is an unpublished manuscript.

These papers include letters (1797-1851), letterbooks (1811-1844), registers (1807-1815), and miscellaneous manuscripts.

This commonplace book was filmed exactly as bound and contains notes on medicine, diseases, and weather; poems by Erasmus Darwin and others; family genealogy; letters; and sketches. There are notes by other family members, including his wife, his daughter, and his brother. There is a letter to "Major Darwin" dated 1929 taped inside the front cover, recounting the provenance of the book.

Heavily edited, much of this material was used in his lectures on physiology. The section "Of pleasure: Lect: 20th" (ff. 473-477), corresponds word-for-word with some parts of "Two Lectures upon the Pleasures of the Senses and of the Mind," at the end of his "Sixteen Introductory Lectures" (Philadelphia, 1811).

This collection includes letters between Ingenhousz and European and American scientists.

This collection is composed chiefly of professional correspondence with 117 individuals, and includes biographical information about scientists in the fields of epidemiology, public health, communicable diseases, and health science policy.

Plaster cast of skull housed in original wooden box with scraps of paper and handwritten note: "A celebre American Philosophical Society a Philadelphia de Prof. Joseph de Lenhosseky Budapest, 1879 31 Marz." Jawbone not included.

Attached to heavy paper so only one side of medal is visible. Obverse: three overlapping bas-relief profile portraits of Benjamin Rush, Philip Syng Physick, and Caspar Wistar Reverse: not visible Acquired along with the papers of Charles Willson Peale and family, 1945 (APS Library).

Glass color transparency of William Welch seated outdoors in a chair. Presented with the papers of Simon Flexner (APS Library).

This volume contains medical notes by Wistar, including observations on yellow fever and arguments to prove its foreign origin, facts relative to the progress of the fever in 1797, the infection and death of Colonel Van Emburgh, the infection of the crew of the ship "Deborah" and of the Durham boat (1802), an account of the diseases which afflicted the family of James Hammar in Montgomery County (Pa.), facts relating to the typhus fever of 1812-1813, case histories (1796-1803), temperature chart (1758-1759, 1760), and a thermometrical journal (1760-1765) kept by Charles Norris and copied by Wistar from notes in possession of Joseph Parker Norris.

These are primarily letters, with some receipts for medical services rendered included. They relate to the general social and intellectural life of Philadelphia and to publications on medical topics. Many of the letters are introductions to Europeans when Pennock first visited there. Letters dated post-1867 are to relatives and colleagues (?).

Recorded in the Sequoyan syllabary. Part of the papers of Will West Long of Big Cove, Qualla Reservation, North Carolina. In the hand of Long, Morgan Calhoun, Lawyer Calhoun, etc.; several pages in English, relating to Indian masks and Indians and Snake Battle. List of dancers, 1936. Native American Images Note Part of the papers of Will West Long of Big Cove Reservation, North Carolina. Two notebooks written in Sequoyan syllabary. As a consultant to Frank Speck, Mr. Long (1870-1947) played a key role in collecting and transmitting information about traditional Cherokee culture. A unique example of Sequoyan Cherokee script known as "talking leaves." Of note, a green pencil figure sketch, 2 x 3", on page 55 of the smaller notebook. Presented by John Witthoft in 1953.