IMAGE
Title:
Victor George Heiser, bust, formal portrait
Publication:
Newspictures, n.d.
Extent:
1 photographic print gelatin silver print, b x w image 25.5 x 20.5cm.
IMAGE
Title:
Victor George Heiser, 3/4 length, seated, formal photoprint
Extent:
1 photographic print gelatin silver print, b x w image 25.5 x 18 cm.
MUSEUM OBJECT
Alt. Title:
Bust of Francis Xavier Dercum
Description:
Dimension:H:24.000in W:18.000in D:12.500in
Creator:
Heber, Carl Augustus
Abstract:
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Head and shoulders of figure facing forward, wearing jacket, vest, and tie. The base of the truncated torso is supported by a low, flat scroll with a lengthy inscription at the verso. Inscribed "C A Heber 19(27)" and "Francis X. Dercum M. D." Additional inscription at rear bottom: "one of the generalizations held out to us by the conception of the universe here outlined is that of a whole, all parts of which are expressive of manifestations of energy, manifestations cognate in correlative and intrinsically identical of necessity [.] such a conception must include living matter. Francis X. Dercum"
MUSEUM OBJECT
Alt. Title:
Bust of Caspar Wistar
Description:
Dimension:H:26.000in W:18.000in D:14.000in
Abstract:
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Plaster portrait bust on low columnar base. The subject has sideburns and shoulder-length hair, brushed back. He wears a waistcoat, a neckcloth and collar, and a heavy swath of fabric draped over his shoulders. Unsigned and undated. "Caspar Wistar" incised on verso of base.
MUSEUM OBJECT
Alt. Title:
Medallion with Portrait of Erasmus Darwin
Description:
Dimension:H:6.000in W:5.250in Oval
Creator:
Hackwood, Joseph, attributed
Abstract:
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Portrait of Erasmus Darwin, blue on white jasper dip. "Wedgwood/O" in capital letters on back, and "Dr. Darwin" in cursive on back. Tentatively attributed to Joseph Hackwood. After late 18th-century model by Joseph Wright.
MUSEUM OBJECT
Alt. Title:
Portrait of George Bacon Wood
Description:
Dimension:H:46.000in W:38.000in Framed
Creator:
Bush-Brown, Margaret Lesley
Abstract:
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Three-quarter length seated figure, head turned right, left arm leaning on red upholstered arm of chair. Wearing black coat, waistcoat, bow tie, white shirt. Brown-black background.
MUSEUM OBJECT
Alt. Title:
Portrait of Francis Xavier Dercum
Description:
Dimension:H:46.125in W:38.313in Framed
Abstract:
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Half-length figure seated in armchair, head and body leaning forward, both hands showing; head bald with white hair at back, white moustache; blue eyes and rosy complexion. Suit and waistcoat are dull blue, waistcoat piped in white. Collar and shirt are white and cravat is red.
MUSEUM OBJECT
Alt. Title:
Portrait of Isaac Minis Hays
Description:
Dimension:H:51.000in W:44.500in Framed
Abstract:
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Three-quarter-length seated figure, body turned right with three-quarter view of face. Left hand placed on arm of chair; right hand holds edge of page from a book on table next to the sitter. Bald head, white hair at back; beard and moustache. Black suit, waistcoat and cravat, white collar. Also on table are three glass containers with quill pens. Inscribed at top: "Lazar Raditz / 1917".
MUSEUM OBJECT
Description:
Dimension:D:0.125in Dia:2.000in
Creator:
Dumarest, Rambert
Abstract:
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Obverse: bas-relief profile of Athena; "INSTITUT DE FRANCE" along perimeter. "Dumarest f." at bottom.
Reverse: wreath encircles incised text: "SIMON FLEXNER 1937"
Presented to APS along with the papers of Simon Flexner (APS Library).
MUSEUM OBJECT
Title:
Medal, Commemorative
Description:
Box: 1.125 x 2.375 x 4.75 Dimension:H:4.750in W:1.250in D:0.250in
Creator:
J. W. Benson Ltd.
Abstract:
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Green and red ribbon embellished with stylized flower made of same ribbon, attached to medal via hook, also embellished with architectural element. Housed in original box marked "To the late queen / J.W. Benson Ltd. 25 Old Bond St. London."
Obverse: stylized flower petals creating two concentric rings encircle white elephant standing on gold ground.
Reverse: red enamel symbol.
Presented along with the papers of Victor George Heiser (APS Library). The medal was awarded to Dr. Heiser by the King of Siam.
Info in envelope describes medal as "Order of the White Elephant awarded by the King of Siam 1915"
MUSEUM OBJECT
Alt. Title:
Portrait of Francis Xavier Dercum
Description:
Dimension:H:54.500in W:44.500in Framed
Creator:
Rittenberg, Henry R.
Abstract:
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Three-quarter length-view of seated figure, facing left, holding book in right hand, wearing academic robes and cord of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
MUSEUM OBJECT
Alt. Title:
Portrait of Franklin Bache
Description:
Dimension:H:42.000in W:38.000in Framed
Creator:
Waugh, Samuel Bell
Abstract:
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Half-length figure, body turned slightly right. Sitter wears black coat, waistcoat, and bow tie, and a white shirt. Tan-gray background. Signed: "S. B. Waugh 1868" in lower right corner.
ANALYTIC
Title:
Thomas Jefferson and the doctors
Parent:
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Transactions & Studies, Series 4, v.37, no.2
Creator:
Radbill, Samuel X., 1901-1987
Publication:
College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Baltimore, 1969.
Notes:
References to the American Philosophical Society and to Benjamin Franklin.
Call #:
610.6 C685T SER.4, V.37, NO.2
Extent:
p.[106]-114 ; octavo.
BOOK
Title:
Physician and patient; or, A practical view of the mutual duties, relations, and interests of the medical profession and the community
Creators:
Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867 | Burder, (Thomas Harrison)Dr, 1789-1843
Publication:
Baker and Scribner, New York, 1849.
Notes:
Appendix: Letters from a senior to a junior physician. On the importance of promoting the religious welfare of his patients [by T. H. Burder] (p.[423]-439) Code of medical ethics adopted by the National medical convention in Philadelphia, June, 1847, (p.[440]-453) Presented with Packard Collection, July, 1950. Not in Sabin.
Extent:
2 p.l., [vii]-xxiv, [25]-453, [1] p. ; 19 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The claims of religion upon medical men: A discourse delivered in the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, on Sunday evening, Nov. 24, 1844
Creator:
Boardman, Henry A. (Henry Augustus), 1808-1880
Publication:
Book and Job Printing Office, Ledger Building, Philadelphia, 1844.
BOOK
Title:
[Resolutions concerning the death of Dr. Isaac Hays]
Creator:
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Publication:
Philadelphia, n.d.]
Extent:
Broadside ; 30 1/2 cm. x 12 cm.
BOOK
Title:
The art of Philadelphia medicine: [Exhibition] Sept. 15-Dec. 7, 1965
Creators:
Philadelphia Museum of Art | McNulty, Kneeland
Publication:
Philadelphia, 1965]
Notes:
Edited by Kneeland McNulty. Bibliographical footnotes.
Extent:
131 p. illus. quarto.
BOOK
Title:
Die Wiener Medizinische Schule im 19. Jahrhundert
Publication:
In Kommission bei Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nauf, Graz, 1965.
Notes:
Bibliographical references included in foot notes.
Call #:
378.436 V67XL V.6
Extent:
660 p. : plates ; octavo.
BOOK
Title:
Medicine at the Paris hospital, 1794-1848
Creator:
Ackerknecht, Erwin Heinz, 1906-
Publication:
Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, [1967]
Extent:
xiv, 242 p. illus. 24 cm.