Call Number:

MSS 2/116

Repository:

Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English

Date:

1902-1906 (inclusive)

Creator:

Turman, A. E. (Alexander Emmett)

Form:

Lecture notes

Abstract:

Alexander Emmett Turman, Virginia physician, was born in 1869. He died of coronary occlusion on 10 May 1954. Turman received his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia in 1893. He first practiced in Goochland and Lassiter, in Virginia, then, by 1909, was practicing in Richmond. He attended clinics at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital in the spring of 1902.

Notes from clinics on medical subjects given by faculty at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 28 Feb. 1902-19 Apr. 1902. Occasional notes from A. E. Turman's observations of clinics at Bellevue Hospital and the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, Feb. 1902, included. Also included are recipes and notes on materia medica, 1906, and one folder of prescriptions. Topics addressed at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School include diseases of the ear, nose, throat, skin, rectum, nervous system, and genito-urinary organs; surgery; tuberculosis; medical microscopy; hernia; obstetrics; orthopedic surgery; gynecology; neurology; and electrotherapeutics. Faculty members mentioned prominently are: Charles W. Allen, H. J. Boldt, Stephen Smith Burt, Augustus Caille, Henry Dwight Chapin, Benjamin F. Cline, Joseph Collins, William Burton De Garmo, Beaman Douglass, George M. Edebohls, Max Einhorn, Eugene Fuller, Samuel Goodwin Gant, Ramon Guiteras, Graeme M. Hammond, Samuel Lloyd, Thurston G. Lusk, James F. McKernon, Willy Meyer, Robert T. Morris, William J. Morton, A. M. Phelps, Wendell Christopher Phillips, Warren O. Plimpton, John Osborn Polak, William H. Porter, Seneca D. Powell, J. Edward Stubbert, Ralph Waldo, and Leonard Weber.