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Title: Oceans, Climate, and Health: The Cholera Paradigm
Identifier(s): video:612; 2005_11_014
Description: Dr. Colwell links the climate and the global economy with infectious diseases and their spread.
Subject: History of Science; Climatology; Cholera; Infectious diseases; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2005-11-12

Title: Notes on venereal disease; Venereal disease
Identifier(s): text:333682
Subject: Medical education; Communicable diseases; Sexually transmitted diseases; Rheumatism; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837
Date: undated; 2019

Title: Treatment of yellow fever in St. Thomas; Meyer, Friedrich Detlef - Treatment of yellow fever in St. Thomas
Identifier(s): text:333083
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Yellow fever; Diseases; Medicine; Perspiration; Symptoms; Opium; Meyer, Friedrich Detlef
Date: 1804; 2019

Title: Love Affairs
Identifier(s): audio:4467; APSdigrec_0375; Recording Number: 13; Program Number: 03
Source: Lukoff, Fred. Onondaga material, [1948, 1950]. (Mss.Rec.3);
Subject: Onondaga language; Onondaga Indians--Social life and customs; Diseases; Interracial marriage; Marriage; Onondaga women
Date: 1950-08

Title: Note on hydrophobia; Hydrophobia
Identifier(s): text:333186
Subject: Medicine; Medical education; Hydrophobia; Rabies; Virus diseases; Symptoms; Delirium; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty
Date: undated; 2019

Title: Symposium: The Next Influenza Pandemic. Part 1.: Introduction
Identifier(s): video:1591
Description: Thomas Shenk introduces the precient November symposium on the next influenza pandemic. How worried should we be?
Subject: History of Science; Medicine, United States, 20th century; Influenza; Infectious diseases; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2019-11-08

Title: Notes on yellow fever; Barton, Benjamin Smith - Yellow Fever
Identifier(s): text:333044
Subject: Medical education; Diseases; Yellow fever; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: undated; 2019

Title: Fetal Surgery for Spina Bifida: Trials and Tribulations
Identifier(s): video:1013; 2012_11_009
Description: Dr. Adzick's talk focuses on his research conducting fetal surgery for Spina Bifida. He leads the field of fetal surgery for birth defects.
Subject: History of Science; Spina bifida, Surgery; Fetal disease, Diagnosis; Fetal Diseases, surgery.; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2012-11-09

Title: Love Affairs
Identifier(s): audio:4510; APSdigrec_0411; Recording Number: 20; Program Number: 03
Description: A translation into English of a recorded Onondaga text as it is played back to the speaker in segments.
Source: Lukoff, Fred. Onondaga material, [1948, 1950]. (Mss.Rec.3);
Subject: Onondaga language; Onondaga Indians--Social life and customs; Diseases; Interracial marriage; Marriage; Onondaga women
Date: 1950-08

Title: Fothergill, Anthony letterbook, 1789-1813
Identifier(s): text:346031
Description: Anthony Fothergill writes to an English physician, J. Woodforde, from Bath and Bristol in England and from Philadelphia. The letters concern their common interests in medicine, with comments on current events, American and Philadelphia society, and medicine in the United States.
Creator: Fothergill, A.(Anthony),1732?-et al
Subject: Diseases; Medical education; Medicine; Prisoners; Prisons; Sanitation; Travel; Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--War of 1812
Date: 1789-1813; 2020

Title: A Case of Chronick Rheumatism, cured by the Mustard-bran-bath. Communicated by William P. C. Barton, M.D. Resident Physician and Surgeon of the Pennsylvania Hospital.; Barton, William P.C. (William Paul Crilon), 1786-1856. A case of chronick rheumatism, cured by the mustard-bran-bath
Identifier(s): text:332715
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine; Medical education; Rheumatism; Musculoskeletal system--Diseases; Collagen diseases; Arsenic; Mustard; Joints; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Barton, William P.C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856
Date: 1809-03-24; 2019

Title: Sanative Contagion Among Cambridge Platonists
Identifier(s): video:1293; 2014_11_019
Description: John Fleming tells the story of Valentine Greatrakes, a pious farmer who lives in Wexford, in Southern Ireland. In 1660, he woke up with the notion that God had granted him the power to heal the inflamation disease called Scrafula, or the King's Evil.; American Philosophical Society. Vol. 159, No. 4 (December 2015), pp. 409-414
Subject: History of Science; Diseases, Causes and theories of causation; Healing, Ireland, History, 17th century; Greatrakes, Valentine; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2014-11-08

Title: Bees in Crisis: Colony Collapse, Honey Laundering and Other Problems Bee-Setting American Apiculture
Identifier(s): video:1087; 2011_04_003
Description: Dr. Berenbaum gives us a whirlwind tour of the life of bees. She goes through a little of the history of beekeeping in the United States, ending with the 21st century mass honey making industry.; Berenbaum is the founder of the Insect Fear Film Festival: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect_Fear_Film_Festival
Subject: History of Science; Bees, Diseases and pests; Bees, United States; Ecological disturbances, United States; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2011-04-28

Title: The dreadful earthquake and the fatal spotted fever. A funeral sermon and a funeral Psalm, on the death of about ten or fifteen thousand of people killed by an earthquake on the twenty-sixth of March 1812, in South America: and on the death of an hundred and fifty killed in New-Hampshire it is expected in the same year, by the Spotted Fever. Written by Jonathan Plummer, a latter-day prophet, lay-bishop, travelling preacher, physician, poet and trader
Identifier(s): text:1213; local: APSimg6704; local: 340
Description: Among his insights in this document, Jonathan Plummer claims that a "vile book" written by "the infamous drunkard" Thomas Paine insulted God and was therefore responsible for outbreaks of fever in Philadelphia and an earthquake in South America.; Paine 73 P73d. Oversized box 2.
Creator: Plummer, Jonathan, 1761-1819et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision:; Pseudo science; Earthquakes; Communicable diseases; Prophecy; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Date: ca. 1812

Title: Heiser and others at the Imperial Institute for Infectious Diseases, Japan.
Identifier(s): graphics:4346; APSimg7450; Graphics Number: U5-4-162
Description: Heiser and group of other men standing outside of building.
Source: Victor (Victor George) Heiser Papers (Mss.B.H357.p); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.H357.p-ead.xml
Subject: Medicine--History ; Heiser, Victor(Victor George),1873-1972; Imperial Institute for the Study of Infectious Diseases (Japan)
Date: n. d.

Title: Stories of Oklahoma Land Run, etc., in Arapaho with English paraphrase
Identifier(s): audio:3083; APSdigrec_2402; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 02
Description: Original tapes held at Berkeley Language Center, University of California, Berkeley. This program is a copy of the Language Center tape 3:2, collector's original tape 3, side B.
Source: Weigel, William F. Study of Arapaho tonal phonology, 1992. (Mss.Rec.258);
Subject: Arapaho language; Oklahoma--History--Land Rush, 1889; Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939; Arapaho Indians--Social conditions; Diseases--Terminology
Date: 1992-06-17

Title: Notes of the Lectures of Samuel Jackson M.D. Philadelphia. 1840' 41.; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857. Medical lecture notes for course by Samuel Jackson
Identifier(s): text:333828
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania; Medicine--Practice--Pennsylvania; Hospitals--Pennsylvania; Medicine; Medical sciences; Physiology; Chemistry; Biochemistry; Heat; Physiology; Fibrin; Gelatin; Connective tissue cells; Pathology; Inflammation; Death; Cancer; Rheumatism; Aneurisms; Cartilage; Bones--Diseases; Cysts; Heart; Pericardium; Peritoneum; Endocarditis; Skin; Central nervous system--Diseases; Skin absorption; Mucous membrane; Mucous membrane--diseases; Pancreas; Liver; Kidneys; Opium; Lungs; Respiration; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Jackson, Samuel 1787-1872
Date: 1840-1841; 2020

Title: Frederick P. Gay - Correspondence, Folder 2, 1916-1922
Identifier(s): text:350804
Description: Includes: Correspondence about a position in bacteriology at University of California, 1910, 1913. Correspondence about vaccine for typhoid produced at University of California by Dr. Claypole. Because it cannot be adequately tested for lack of research funds, Gay asks if it can be sent to RIMR for that purpose, 1915. Correspondence about Jules Bordet's concerns over funds at University of Brussels. Correspondence about an assistant for Karl Landsteiner at RIMR, 1922. General correspondence about applicants for NRC grants.
Subject: Rockefeller Foundation; Typhoid fever; Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919; Tuberculosis; The journal of infectious diseases; Poliomyelitis; Taurine; Neisseria meningitidis; Bacteriology; Immunology
Date: 1916-1922

Title: Page proofs of Cullen's Practice of Physic; Page proofs, cont'd
Identifier(s): text:332942
Description: Pages 241-320; 345-352.
Subject: Medicine; Medical education; Scarlatina; Scarlet fever toxin; Epidemics; Communicable diseases; Plague; Erysipelas; Sweating-sickness; Hemorrhage; Proofs (Printing); University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: undated; 2019

Title: Tyler, G. to Benjamin Smith Barton, 1808 May 6; Tyler, G.
Identifier(s): text:333665
Description: Tyler's letter is a lament over his brother's lack of success in medical school.
Creator: Tyler, G.et al
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Medicine; Medical education; Diseases; University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: 1808-05-06; 2019