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Philip Leidy papers

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Call Number:
MSS 2/171
Repository:
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Extent:
1 folder
Language:
English
Date:
1880-1887 (inclusive)
Form:
Correspondence and Speeches (documents)
Abstract:

Philip Leidy, Philadelphia physician and half-brother of naturalist Joseph Leidy, was born on 29 Dec. 1838. He married Penelope Maury Johnson in 1865; they had four children. Leidy died on 29 Apr. 1891. Leidy received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1859. After a residency at Philadelphia Hospital, he served as surgeon during the Civil War to the 106th and 109th Pennsylvania regiments. He was also examining surgeon for the U.S. Pension Bureau, port physician of Philadelphia, and physician-in-chief to the Insane Department of Philadelphia Hospital. Philip Leidy was a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia from 1885 to 1890.

This small collection of Philip Leidy material, 1880-1887, contains several letters, a formal presentation on nervous cases, some informal remarks, and report on the second recorded autopsy of Chinese man performed in United States.

The letter to G. L. Fisher describes delivery of diploteratologic fetus, and the letter to Philip C. Garrett presents Leidy's views on treatment of insane patients.

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Collection Inventory

1. Leidy, Philip, letter [fragment] with notes, Philadelphia, Pa., to G. L. Fisher, Sing Sing, N.Y., 10 June 1880.
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2. Leidy, Philip, letter, Philadelphia, Pa., to the Philadelphia Board of Health, Philadelphia, Pa., 17 September 1881.
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3. Painter, Edward M., letter, Columbia, Pa., to Philip Leidy, Philadelphia, Pa.; with Leidy, Philip, letter, Philadelphia, Pa., to [James W.?] Latta, 11 October 1885; 14 October 1885.
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4. Leidy, Philip, letter, Philadelphia, Pa., to Philip C. Garrett, 24 March 1886.
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5. Smith, James H., letter to Philip Leidy, Philadelphia, Pa., 17 January 1887.
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6. Remarks before reunion of the 106th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, circa 1883.
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7. Nervous cases: address before Northern Medical Society, undated.
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8. Leidy, Philip, Remarks before meeting of S. of B. L., undated.
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9. Post-mortem appearances on Charles Lee, the only second Chinaman upon whom an autopsy was held in the United States, at the Philadelphia Hospital, Blockley [holograph], June 1886.
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