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Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Adolphus Lippe papers

 Collection
Identifier: HU.088
Overview Dr. Adolphus Lippe was a prominent homeopathic physician who practiced from 1841 until his death in 1888. Born in Germany, Dr. Lippe immigrated to the United States to learn medicine and graduated from the North American Academy of Homeopathic Medicine in 1841. After graduating, Dr. Lippe practiced across western and central Pennsylvania, eventually settling in Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, Dr. Lippe practiced, and also lectured on Materia Medica at the Homeopathic Medical College of...
Dates: 1812-1888; Majority of material found in 1812-1888

Arthur Maynard Eastman papers

 Collection
Identifier: HU.083
Overview Dr. Arthur Maynard Eastman [1855-1923] graduated from Hahnemann Medical College in 1879 under the instruction of renowned American homeopath Dr. Constantine Hering. After his graduation, Dr. Eastman practiced homeopathy in Pennsylvania and New York before returning to his home state of Minnesota to practice in St. Paul. The materials in this collection pertain to Dr. Eastman’s time as a student at Hahnemann Medical College and his brief period of practice at the Homeopathic Hospital of New...
Dates: 1876-1881; Majority of material found in 1876-1881

Bradford collection of biographies of Homeopathic Physicians

 Collection
Identifier: HU-064
Overview

Dr. Thomas L. Bradford (1847-1918) was a practicing homeopathic physician in Maine, Europe and Philadelphia. While practicing and teaching in Philadelphia he served as curator for the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. From 1896 to 1916, he collected, organized and maintained material for 35 scrapbooks of biographical information about homeopathic physicians.

Dates: 1868 - 1918

Constantine Hering and Calvin B. Knerr family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HU-100
Overview Dr. Constantine Hering (1800-1880), born and educated in Germany, immigrated to Philadelphia in 1833 and devoted his life to the study, practice and education of homeopathic medicine in the United States. As such, he is considered the father of homeopathy in America. Hering founded several schools and organizations devoted to teaching homeopathy, especially the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Arts, aka the Allentown Academy, in 1836, and the Hahnemann Medical College of...
Dates: 1820 - 2003; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1940

Life and Reminiscences of Dr. Constantine Hering

 Collection
Identifier: HU.102
Overview

Arthur M. Eastman's 25 page biography of Constantine Hering. Reprinted from the Hahnemannian Monthly, August 1917 with the addition of illustrations compiled by Carl Hering, D. Sc. Published by the family for private collection. Multiple copies.

Dates: 1917-1917; Majority of material found in 1917-1917

Lippe Society of Philadelphia records

 Collection
Identifier: HU.077
Overview

The Lippe Society of Philadelphia book of proceedings 1880, its founding year. 1 volume.

Dates: 1880-1880; Majority of material found in 1880-1880

Naomi Rogers papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-018
Overview Naomi Rogers, PhD is a professor in the History of Medicine and of History at Yale University. In 1998, she published her book, An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. Rogers carried out extensive research at the Drexel University College of Medicine’s Legacy Center and Archives during the 1990s with the help of archivist, Barbara Williams. Collection contains Rogers’ research materials for Alternative Path, including...
Dates: 1876-2013; Majority of material found in 1995-1998

Samuel Hahnemann correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HU.095
Overview Christian Freidrich Samuel Hahnemann [1755-1843] was a German physician known to be the father of homeopathic medicine. His teachings, techniques and writings were the main basis of homeopathic medical practice, and he was seen and studied as a guiding figure by the homeopathic physicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Contains letters of Samuel Hahnemann with some translations, including Melanie [D'Hervilly] Hahnemann, his wife; Amalie Suss, his daughter; and Leopold Suss-Hahnemann,...
Dates: 1755-1985; Majority of material found in -

Schall collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-005
Overview

John Hubley Schall earned his medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College in 1893. Materials represent the life and work of Dr. Schall, his wife, Nina Schall, M.D. (Cornell Medical School, 1906) and probably their son, John Schall, also a physician, who likely owned some of the journals in the collection. Materials in the collection include photographs, illustrations, correspondence, notes, lectures and speeches, and publications.

Dates: 1893 - 1982

Thomas L. Bradford scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HU.079
Overview Scrapbooks, compiled by Dr. T. L. Bradford, are on "Materia Medica Clippings", "Homeopathic Scrap Book" and a scrapbook on the Samuel Hahnemann monument in Washington, DC. Dr. Bradford [1847-1918] was a homeopathic physician and historian of homeopathy. He graduated from the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania (the forebearer to Hahnemann Medical College) in 1869 and studied under Dr. Adolphus Lippe. Dr. Bradford practiced homeopathic medicine for nearly 30 years but is best known...
Dates: 1890-1920; Majority of material found in 1890-1920

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