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
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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 call 215-563-3737
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