Digital Resources at the Historical Library are made available to the public and provide virtual browsing of books and manuscripts chosen from the Historical Collection of the Library of the College of Physicians.

Digital Library - Books

The Historical Medical Digital Library (HMDL) features selections of books significant in the history of medicine. Patrons may browse the Digital Library in order to see frontispieces, title pages, dedications, selected portions of texts, illustrations and tables of contents. HMDL was developed with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Digital Library - Manuscripts

The College Library also provides two fully searchable, digitized editions of 18th-century Pennsylvania medical manuscripts. The Medicina Pennsylvania was authored by George de Benneville, a Huguenot practitioner probably trained in Germany , and the Remediorum Specimina was composed by Abraham Wagner, a member of the Schwenkfelders, a religious sect that arose in Silesia in the early years of the Protestant reformation. The De Benneville manuscript is owned by the College Library; the Wagner has been made available by the Schwenkfelder Library of Pennsburg , Pennsylvania . This project was made possible by a grant from the National Library of Medicine to Prof. Renate Wilson of the Bloomberg School of Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University.

Copyright Notice

Copyright for the Digital Resources of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is in the public domain. These resources are intended for the personal use of patrons and as a resource for educational institutions. For more information about rights and reproductions please email imaging@collegeofphysicians.org.