The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library

Items (2709 total)

Revolutionary War-era document of a smallpox meeting at Johnston, Rhode Island, 1776, deciding to quarantine infected townspeople in their homes
Revolutionary War-era document of a smallpox…
Letter from Dr. William Shippen, Continental Army Director of Hospitals, appointing David Townsend, MD, to command the Army Hospital at Fishkill, New York, in 1780
Letter from Dr. William Shippen, Continental Army…
Congressional list of physicians and surgeons to serve in the Continental Army
Congressional list of physicians and surgeons to…
One of the earliest handwritten Colonial medical documents: A 1709 handwritten medical bill for services performed, including bloodletting, by Dr. Samuel Law from Concord, Massachusetts
One of the earliest handwritten Colonial medical…
Autographed letter from Dr. Carlos Finlay requesting an opportunity to meet with the members of the Academy of Sciences in Havana, 1878
Autographed letter from Dr. Carlos Finlay…
Documenting #COVIDPHL at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia image
Documenting #COVIDPHL at The College of Physicians…
A handwritten certificate of commission to a loyalist surgeon in the army of the English colony of Rhode Island from Henry Ward, Secretary of the General Assembly three weeks after the Lexington-Concord battle, 1775
A handwritten certificate of commission to a…
The form of the thoracic cavity, and the position of the lungs, heart, and larger bloodvessels
The form of the thoracic cavity, and the position…
A representation of the mediastinum
A representation of the mediastinum