Men's Eye Ward

Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures

Eyelids--Surgery

Hospital Units

Blockley Almshouse

Philadelphia General Hospital

De Schweinitz, G. E. (George Edmund), 1858-1938

Ingram, Florence

Stengel, Alfred, 1868-1939

Carter, William Spencer

McFarland, Joseph, 1868-1945

Photographs

A canthoplasty in the Men's Eye Ward, with nurses, resident physicians, ward attendant present.

Front of image: Dr. George de Schweinitz, 1889, Back row: Charlie, Florence Ingram, Stengel, Carter, Around bed: McFarland [with instruments], Bitting.

Florence Ingram graduated from PGH School of Nursing in 1889. George de Schweinitz was ophthalmologist at PGH from 1887 to 1917.

Original image: Philadelphia General Hospital Photograph Collection, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, box 2, photo no. 25

Philadelphia General Hospital was originally part of the Philadelphia Almshouse, which was founded in 1731 for the city’s poor, elderly and indigent. Nicknamed “Old Blockley,” because of its location in Blockley Township of West Philadelphia, the hospital was renamed Philadelphia General Hospital in 1919. The hospital eventually closed in 1977. The images in this collection have been compiled from a number of sources but appear to be predominantly from the personal photo albums of attending physicians.

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

1889

StillImage

PGH_2_25

History, 19th Century

Philadelphia

Bower, John L. (John Lincoln), 1865-1955. Bower album

1 photograph

9 x 11.5 cm