Nov 29, 2023
Caitlin "KT" Abadir-Mullally details the process of reparative archives and necessity revisiting the Mary Pauline Root Papers
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Sep 18, 2020
In the aftermath of the 1918 Flu Pandemic, health officials struggled on defining ways to better help individuals. Without immunization in sight for influenza, physicians needed to turn to different ways to better support their patients.
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Aug 08, 2017
Doris Phillips Wheeler was a 1941 Austrian graduate from Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania who began medical school during the Third Reich. This blog post explores how archives are places where lost stories and new insights can be found, such as that of Doris Phillips Wheelers life in coming to America before a major war broke out in her homeland.
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Jan 19, 2017
Founded in 1868, the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia started as an educational organization for those who were interested women diseases and health issues. This blog post explores the importance of minutes to show the inner workings of the medical society.
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Nov 29, 2016
Diana Lewis, 1912 graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Nurse's Training School served in the American Expeditionary Forces as a Base Hospital nurse in France during the Great War in 1917-1919 and kept a scrapbook as a record of her time. This blog post explains how the study of Nurse Lewis's scrapbook led to the discovery of Dr. Elizabeth Hocker's letters that spoke to how the women physicians and nurses surrounded by the male soldiers (wounded and dying) felt emotionally connected to them.
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Feb 02, 2015
Tuberculosis is caused by a bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis or one of a number of related bacteria. It most often affects the lungs, but can also cause harm to other parts of the body while spread through the air. This blog post shows how the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania Class of 1944 was affected by the disease with only 12 of the original 41 students graduating on time, and some never did graduate.
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Oct 21, 2014
Dr. Thomas Bradford, librarian and lecturer on the history of medicine at Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, completed his "labor of love," Biographies of Homeopathic Physicians in 1918 - 36 volumes of scrapbooks with any found information on homeopathic physicians. This blog post explores the successes and failures of uploading the scrapbooks to Internet Archive.
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Oct 03, 2014
Full article following initial blog post written by Virginia Metaxas, Ph.D., Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Southern Connecticut State University and Legacy Center 2010 M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner Fellow, about the American Women's Hospitals efforts in helping war torn Greece rebuild their country.
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Sep 12, 2014
This blog post is an excerpt from Virginia Metaxas, Ph.D., Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Southern Connecticut State University and Legacy Center 2010 M. Louise Carpenter Gloeckner Fellow, about the American Women's Hospitals efforts in helping war torn Greece rebuild their country.
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Jul 23, 2014
The Hartwig Kuhlenbeck collection contains materials from Dr. Kuhlenbeck, a professor at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania who travelled all around the world and collected cultural objects, including a shrunken head from the Jivaro people in South America. This blog post disputes the authenticity of the tsantsa, through research.
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Jan 07, 2014
The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections (PACSCL) started a new phase of uncovering "hidden collections" in small archives. The Legacy Center joined in this phase with processing materials from Hahnemann Medical College, including papers from former deans, faculty members, and academic departments.
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Apr 22, 2013
The Gross Anatomy Lab at the College of Medicine is where medical students are assigned a cadaver and spend the fall and spring terms learning about the human body in a hands-on experience. This blog post follows the history of the gross lab at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania through photographs taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Mar 18, 2013
In the 1930s, over 63 hospitals and medical schools operated in Philadelphia, including Hahnemann Medical College, one of Drexel University College of Medicine's predecessors. This blog post describes a project to map locations of Philadelphia hospitals showing what the location looked like in the 30s versus now.
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Mar 04, 2013
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, suffragist and dress reformer. This blog post follows up from the previous blog post and continues with Dr. Walker's life after the Civil War. Part 2 of 2 posts.
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Jan 28, 2013
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker attended Syracuse Medical College after spending some time being a schoolteacher. After her marriage and practice failed, she joined the Union Army as a nurse and later surgeon. She was later captured and accused of being a spy. Part 1 of 2 posts.
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May 21, 2009
Advertisements for pharmaceutical drugs in print media is a decades old phenomenon. This blog post features several pharmaceutical advertisements featured in The Medical Woman’s Journal and The Journal of the American Medical Women's Association between 1924 and 1958. It pokes fun at their dated quirks and points out the advertising ambiguities such as who they are marketed two. The blog post also points out the clear gendered marketing present in the drug advertisements.
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Apr 10, 2009
Dr. Rachel Bodley was a prolific chemist and botanist who served as Dean of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1874 to 1888. This blog post concerns a letter discovered in her collection written by an anonymous patient suffering from nymphomania. “The Patient” as she was known, was under the care of neurologist Dr. Charles K. Mills at the Women’s Nervous Wards at Philadelphia Hospital. As the blog explains, The Patient began a correspondence with Dr. Bodley and requested that upon her death, her body be dedicated to helping find a cure for nymphomania. The blog post covers the unusual archival item, and poses the questions of what became of The Patient after the letter was sent.
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Feb 17, 2009
The Correspondenzblatt der Homoeopathischen Aerzte was a shortlived publication put out in 1835 and 1836 by the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art (better known as the Allentown Academy). The Correspondenzblatt was the first homeopathic medical journal published in the United States, and was edited by one of the founding homeopathic physicians in America, Dr. Constantine Herring. This blog post discusses what the journal is, where it came from, and what it wrote about.
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