Oct 24, 2019
The David Hottenstein collection at the Drexel College of Medicine's Legacy Center contained an unidentified box of medical instruments. This blog post explains the process of discovering the object to be a scale, researching an ancient unit of measurement called drachma, and putting the pieces together to figure out this archives mystery.
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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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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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Dec 10, 2013
This blog post is about Constantine Hering, considered the "father of homeopathy" in America and was one of the founders of the first homeopathic medical college in America. Homeopathy is based on the concept that like cures like.
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Oct 15, 2013
In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was difficult for women to become physicians, much less homeopathic physicians with a formal education in a male dominated field. This blog post introduces the Legacy Center's Early Women in Homeopathy: A Resource Guide.
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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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Jul 20, 2011
The Legacy Center digitized the Correspondenzblatt der Homoeopatischen Aerzte (Correspondence Paper of Homeopathic Physicians), the first journal published in the United States, where homeopathic practitioners submitted case notes, observations and questions about their patients. The issues were originally in German but have been translated into English; both versions can be found online.
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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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