Francis X. Dercum: Physician, teacher and philosopher, 1941

Mss.B.D448t

Date: 1941 | Size: 1 volume(s), 1 volume, 22 p.
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Abstract

This is a biographical sketch of Dercum, who was a specialist in neurology and president of the American Philosophical Society (1927-1981). Dercum practiced medicine in Philadelphia and made the first contribution to understanding adiposis dolorosa, or Dercum's disease. This essay was presented before the Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American Medical Association, in Cleaveland, June 4, 1941.

Collection Information

Physical description

1 volume, 22 p.

Provenance

Presented by Duncan Cairnes Ely and accessioned, 10/30/1975.

Indexing Terms


Occupation(s)

  • Physicians -- United States.

Personal Name(s)

  • Dercum, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1856-1931
  • Throckmorton, Tom Bentley.

Subject(s)

  • Medicine -- United States.
  • Neurology.