The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library

Items (2709 total)

The only English translation of Antoine Chaumette’s 16th century text “Enchiridon Chirurgicum”, a beautiful vellum-bound folio manuscript written in 1715
The only English translation of Antoine…
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…
Selectmen of Raynham, Massachusetts vote that there should be an inoculating hospitals in the houses of three inhabitants, with Dr. David Cobb as physician
Selectmen of Raynham, Massachusetts vote that…
A contemporary photograph of vaccinated and non-vaccinated men with smallpox from 1904, demonstrating the effects of immunization
A contemporary photograph of vaccinated and…
Revolutionary War document describing arrest of the perpetrators of a Loyalist plot to spread smallpox & counterfeit currency among the rebellious colonies, signed by Dr. Josiah Bartlett, physician signer of the Declaration of Independence, April 1777
Revolutionary War document describing arrest of…
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…
Benjamin Rush letter to John Morgan
Benjamin Rush letter to John Morgan
William Penn patent to William Markham, Robert Turner, John Goodson, and Samuel Carpenter
William Penn patent to William Markham, Robert…
Elizabeth Coates Paschall receipt book
Elizabeth Coates Paschall receipt book