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Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia

 Organization

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Thomas L. Bradford scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HU.080
Overview Dr. Thomas Lindsley 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 for his work recording the history of homeopathy. His works include The Homeopathic Biography of the United States (1892), The Pioneers of Homeopathy (1898),...
Dates: 1880-1910; Majority of material found in 1880-1910

Thomas S. Dunning collection

 Collection
Identifier: HU.130
Overview

Dr. Thomas “Bud” Dunning [1876-1954] was a graduate of Hahnemann Medical College, class of 1902. After graduating, Dr. Dunning was a practicing physician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later in Nevada. Collection contains photographs, correspondence, lectures, handbooks, notebooks, publications, and medical ephemera from the early 20th century.

Dates: 1890-1930; Majority of material found in 1910-1920

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