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1. Proceedings of the Medical Class of the University of Pennsylvania, which led to the employment of a distinguished artist to make a portrait of Dr. Physick: subsequently presented to the Medical Faculty : also, a brief sketch of the address delivered on the occasion by the students, and a condensed report of the sentiments expressed in reply by Dr. Horner and Dr. Hare

Author(s):
University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine. Class of 1837.
Publication:
[Philadelphia? : s.n., 1837?]
Subject(s):
Physicians
Portraits as Topic
Anniversaries and Special Events
Philadelphia
Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837.

4. The Board of Health, for the port or district of Philadelphia: in the United States of America, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : we certify and make known, that through the blessing of God, the city and district of Philadelphia and the vicinity thereof, is entirely free from all kinds of malignant diseases [small pox excepted]

Author(s):
Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Health.
Publication:
[Philadelphia : Printed by John Poulson, 1806]
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control
Smallpox
Philadelphia

29. Minutes of the proceedings of the committee, appointed on the 14th September, 1793, by the citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties and the District of Southwark, to attend to and alleviate the sufferings of the afflicted with the malignant fever, prevalent, in the city and its vicinity: with an appendix

Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by R. Aitken & Son, and sold by J. Crukshank ... and the other booksellers, MDCCXCIV [1794]
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Philadelphia

30. A report of the trial of an action for libel: in which Dr. Geo. M'Clellan was plaintiff, and Dr. Francis S. Beattie was defendant, at Philadelphia, March 1829 : comprising the whole of the evidence and the judge's charge, with notes, subjoined by an eye witness

Author(s):
Beattie, Francis S. (Francis Smith), 1794-1841
Publication:
Philadelphia : [s.n.], 1829
Subject(s):
Malpractice -- legislation & jurisprudence
Cataract Extraction
Philadelphia

36. Continuation of the account of the Pennsylvania Hospital: from the first of May 1754, to the fifth of May 1761 ; with an alphabetical list of the contributors, and of the legacies which have been bequeathed, for promotion and support thereof, from its first rise to that time

Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, MDCCLXI [1761]
Subject(s):
Hospitals
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)

37. A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital: exhibiting the names of authors and editors in alphabetical order ; with an index of the subjects of the books, taken principally from the most striking words in the titles ; also, some additional regulations relative to the library ; part II

Author(s):
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical Library.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed for the hospital, by James P. Parke, 74, South Second Street, 1818
Subject(s):
Libraries, Hospital -- organization & administration
Medicine
Philadelphia

38. A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital: exhibiting the names of authors and editors, in alphabetical order, and an arrangement of them under distinct heads ; also, a list of articles contained in the anatomical museum ; and the rules of the museum, and of the library

Author(s):
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical Library.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed for the Hospital, by Archibald Bartram ..., 1806
Subject(s):
Libraries, Hospital -- organization & administration
Medicine
Philadelphia

42. Respected friend, as our correspondence with most of our friends, both at home and abroad, has been interrupted on our part, for nearly three months past, it is proper that we should account to them for so extraordinary a suspension, and give some account of our late and present situation

Author(s):
Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834
Publication:
[Philadelphia : s.n., 1793]
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Philadelphia

44. A second address to the citizens of Philadelphia, containing additional proofs of the domestic origin of the malignant bilious, or yellow fever: to which are added, observations, intended to shew that a belief in that opinion, is calculated to lessen the mortality of the disease, and to prevent its recurrence

Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, 1799
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Philadelphia

55. Florae Philadelphicae prodromus: plantarum quae hac enus exploratae fuere, quaeque in ipso opere ulterius describentur, exhibens enumerationem: or, Prodromus of the flora Philadelphica; exhibiting a list of all the plants to be described in that work, which have as yet been collected

Author(s):
Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed for the author by J. Maxwell, 1815
Subject(s):
Plants
Philadelphia

60. Elegiac poem, on the death of Dr. Benjamin Rush: professor of the institutes and practice of medicine and of clinical practice in the University of Pennsylvania ; who fell a victim to the prevailing typhus fever, on the 19th of April, 1813

Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Anthony Finley, southeast corner of Chesnut and Fourth streets ; William Fry, printer, 1813
Subject(s):
Physicians
Philadelphia
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.

62. A treatise on the synochus icteroides, or yellow fever: as it lately appeared in the city of Philadelphia ; exhibiting a concise view of its rise, progress and symptoms, together with the method of treatment found most successful ; also remarks on the nature of its contagion, and directions for preventing the introduction of the same malady, in future

Author(s):
Currie, William, 1754-1828
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson ..., 1794
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Philadelphia

67. The reply of the Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern Liberties and Penn, to certain remarks made in their presentments by the grand inquests inquiring for the county of Philadelphia, for February and April sessions, 1849

Author(s):
Philadelphia (Pa.). Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Crissy & Markley, Printers, 1849
Subject(s):
Social Welfare
Mentally Ill Persons
Institutionalization
Dissent and Disputes
Philadelphia
Philadelphia (Pa.). Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor.

79. Account of the present state of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason

Author(s):
Contributors to the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by W. Brown ..., 1816
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- economics
Hospitals, Religious -- economics
Charities
Fund Raising
Philadelphia
Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason.
Contributors to the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason

83. An eulogium in commemoration of Doctor Caspar Wistar, late president of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge: delivered before the Society, pursuant to their appointment, in the German Lutheran Church in Fourth Street, in the city of Philadelphia, on the 11th day of March,1818

Author(s):
Tilghman, William, 1756-1827
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by E. Earle ..., 1818
Subject(s):
Physicians
Anatomists
Philadelphia
Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818.

98. The medical student's guide: being a compendious view of the collegiate and clinical medical schools, the courses of private lectures, the hospitals and almshouses, and other institutions which contribute directly or indirectly to the great medical school of Philadelphia : with the regulations of hours, fees, &c. and other information of importance to students

Author(s):
Chase, Heber.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Auner, 1842
Subject(s):
Education, Medical
Philadelphia

99. Information for the legislature and people of the State of Pennsylvania, and professional men throughout the United States: in relation to various systems of superstitious frauds, and particularly those inflicted upon the credulous by pretended doctors in medicine : together with an explanation of the homoeopathic and other systems of deception : advice to students of medicine, young physicians, the public, &c

Publication:
[Philadelphia? : s.n., 1838?]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Homeopathy
Quackery
Philadelphia