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George W. Freeman lecture and matriculation tickets

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George W. Freeman, of Pennsylvania, received his M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1852. His thesis was on dysentery. He also received an A.M. from Lafayette College in 1866.

Freeman practiced medicine in Freemansburg, Pennsylvania, where he died of paralysis on 16 May 1898.

This small collection documents George W. Freeman's education in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, 1850-1851. The collection includes Freeman's matriculation card, admission cards to lectures, and a certificate entitling him to use of the medical library of Pennsylvania Hospital. Faculty members whose lectures Freeman attended are: Joseph Carson, William Gibson, Hugh L. Hodge, W. E. Horner, Samuel Jackson, and James B. Rogers.

The George W. Freeman Collection was donated to the Historical Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Mrs. Benjamin Pflum of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, through the offices of Russell S. Boles, on 8 March 1957.

The collection was processed and catalogued in September 1990.

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Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Collection Inventory

Matriculation card, 7 October 1850.
Joseph Carson on materia medica and pharmacy, 7 October 1850.
W. E. Horner on anatomy, 7 October 1850.
Samuel Jackson on the institutes of medicine, 7 October 1850.
Hugh L. Hodge on obstetrics and the diseases of women and children, 1850-1851.
James B. Rogers on chemistry, 1850-1851.
William Gibson on the principles and practice of surgery, 1 October 1851.
W. E. Horner on anatomy, 6 October 1851.
Samuel Jackson on the institutes of medicine, 6 October 185.
Pennsylvania Hospital medical library, 15 October 1851.
James B. Rogers on chemistry, 1851-1852.

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