MSS 2/0146-03			Acc. 1992-031


ABBE, ROBERT,
(1851-1928)
 Collector

Memoranda of Edward Jenner,
 1803-1817

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1	 1.  Lips, [Johann] H[einrich], 1758-1817.
			Engraving of Edward Jenner,
		[n.d.]	(1 item)

3	 2.	Biographical information on
		Edward Jenner,
		[n.d.]	(1 item)

13	 3.	Bohme, C.
			Engraving of Edward Jenner,
		[n.d.]	(1 item)

15	 4.	Smith, I. R. 
		Hopwood, J[ames], 1752-1819.
			Engraving of Edward Jenner,
		1803	(1 item)

17	 5.	Ridley, [William?], 1764-1838.
			Engraving of Edward Jenner 
		from the portrait by James Northcote,
		1804	(1 item)

19	 6.	Portrait of Edward Jenner [copy],
		[n.d.]	(1 item)

21	 7.  Woodcut of Edward Jenner 
		from an Italian newspaper,
		[n.d.]	(1 item)

23	 8.	Scriven, E[dward], 1775-1841.
			Engraving of Edward Jenner
		from the engraving by J[ohn] R[aphael] Smith,
		[n.d.]	(1 item)

25	 9.  Robinson, J[ohn Henry], 1796-1871. 
		Meadows, R[obert] M[itchell], d. 1812.
			Engraving of Edward Jenner,
		1817	(1 item)

27	10.	Engraving of Edward Jenner,
		[n.d.]	(1 item)

29	11.	Smith, J[ohn] R[aphael], 1758-1812.
		Scriven, E[dward], 1775-1841.
			Engraving of Edward Jenner,
		[n.d.]	(1 item)

31	12.	Fontaine, T. M.
			Engraving of Edward Jenner,
		[n.d.]	(1 item)

35	13.	Jenner, E[dward], 1749-1823.
			Autograph letter signed : Cheltenham [England], to
		[Thomas Frognall] Dibdin, [n.p.],
		1803 Oct. 10	(1 item)

37	14.	Transcript of 
		Jenner, E[dward], 1749-1823.
			Autograph letter signed : Cheltenham [England], to
		[Thomas Frognall] Dibdin, [n.p.],
		1803 Oct. 10	(1 item)
		

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MSS 2/0146-03			Acc. 1992-031


ABBE, ROBERT,
(1851-1928)
 Collector

Memoranda of Edward Jenner,
 1803-1817


Biographical

Robert Waldo Abbe, New York surgeon, was born on 13 April1851. 
He married Catherine Amory Palmer in 1891.  Abbe died of anemia, 
probably related to his work with radium, on 7 March 1928.

Abbe received an A.B. from the College of the City of New York 
in 1870 and an M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
in New York in 1874.  He then served an internship at St. Luke's 
Hospital, New York.

From 1877 to 1884, Abbe was Attending Surgeon in the outpatient 
Department of New York Hospital.  He was also Surgeon at St. 
Luke's Hospital and the Cancer Hospital and attending Surgeon 
at New York Babies' Hospital.  Abbe held positions as Professor 
of Didactic Surgery at the woman's medical College of New York, 
1878-1880, and Professor of Surgery at the New York Post Graduate 
Medical School, 18881897.  In 1898, he became Lecturer in Surgery 
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Robert Abbe was known for his pioneering work in intestinal anastomosis, 
spinal surgery, and the use of radium to treat cancer.  He was 
a member of the American surgical association, the International 
Surgical Society, and the New York Surgical Society.  In 1911, 
he became an Associate Fellow of the College of Physicians of 
Philadelphia.


Scope and contents

This scrapbook contains mementos of Edward Jenner collected by 
Robert Abbe.  Included are numerous engravings dating from 1803 
to 1817 and one letter written by Jenner in 1803.

The collection includes numerous portraits of Jenner by German, 
English, and Italian engravers, including Johann Heinrich Lips, 
James Hopwood, Edward Scriven, John Henry Robinson, Robert Mitchell 
Meadows, and John Raphael Smith.

The letter in the collection was sent by Jenner to 
Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) on 10 October 1803. 
Dibdin, a bibliographer, essayist, and poet, was writing a poem 
for Jenner; the poem, called "Vaccinia", was about the evils 
of the smallpox virus.  In the letter, Jenner expresses his 
wish to examine Dibdin's "papers" and discusses matters concerning 
the publication of the poem. Jenner also mentions caring for 
Lord Berkeley's sick infant. The letter also addresses political 
issues; the United Irishman and political activist Robert Emmet 
(1778-1803) is mentioned.  Jenner also writes, "Will Bonoparte 
[sic] be so rash as to shew himself upon our shores?"


Provenance

This collection of memoranda of Edward Jenner was donated 
to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Robert Abbe, probably 
in conjunction with Anna K. W. Mitchell's donation of the Edward 
Jenner inkstand on 6 June 1917.

The scrapbook was transferred from the custody of the mutter museum 
to the Historical Collections of the Library of the college 
of Physicians on 4 January 1983.  

The scrapbook was processed and catalogued in 1992.


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