MSS 2/0159-01 Acc. 1990-134 CHALLISS, WILLIAM L. Lecture admission cards and related material from Jefferson Medical College, 1847-1848 Academic session 1847-1848 1. Franklin Bache on chemistry, 4 November 1847 (1 item) 1847 2. Robert M. Huston on materia medica and general therapeutics, November 1847 (1 item) 1847 3. Charles D. Meigs on the diseases of women and children, November 1847 (1 item) 1847 4. John K. Mitchell on the practice of medicine, November 1847 (1 item) 1847 5. Joseph Pancoast on general, descriptive, and surgical anatomy, November 1847 (1 item) 1847 6. Thomas D. Mutter on the principles and practice of surgery, 1847-1848 (1 item) [1847] 7. J. M. Allen and J. T. Clark on practical and surgical anatomy at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, 9 November 1847 (1 item) 1847 Academic session 1848-1849 8. Franklin Bache on chemistry, 13 October 1848 (1 item) 1848 9. Matriculation card, November 1848 (1 item) 1848 10. John K. Mitchell on the practice of medicine, November 1848 (1 item) 1848 11. Joseph Pancoast on practical anatomy, November 1848 (1 item) 1848 12. Robley Dunglison on the institutes of medicine, 1848-1849 (1 item) [1848] 1847-1848 11/7/1990 1 folder (12 items) jde MSS 2/0159-01 Acc. 1990-134 CHALLISS, WILLIAM L. Lecture admission cards and related material from Jefferson Medical College, 1847-1848 Biographical William L. Challiss of Burlington, New Jersey, received his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1849; his thesis was on dysentery. In 1890, Challiss was practicing medicine in Woodlawn, Kansas; in 1893, he was practicing in Atchison, Kansas. He died circa 1896. Scope and contents This small collection documents the medical education of William L. Challiss at Jefferson Medical College, 1847-1848. The collection contains one matriculation card for the 18481849 academic session and admission cards to the lectures of Franklin Bache, Robley Dunglison, Robert M. Huston, Charles D. Meigs, John K. Mitchell, Thomas D. Mutter, and Joseph Pancoast. There is also one card admitting Challiss to lectures at the Philadelphia School of Anatomy in 1847. Provenance The William L. Challiss Collection was donated to the Historical Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Mrs. Warren Dickinson of Glenside, Pennsylvania, on 12 August 1983. The collection was processed and catalogued in 1990. 1847-1848 1 folder (12 items) 11/7/1990 jde