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Health and Medicine

WEBBoard of Health (Philadelphia) Philadelphia suffered numerous outbreaks of epidemic disease throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it was not until 1794, …

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Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

WEBNevertheless, epidemics of influenza, polio, and HIV/AIDS killed thousands through the turn of the twenty-first century even as diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease …

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City of Medicine

WEBCity of Medicine. By Steven J. Peitzman. In 1843, a student at the “med school of the University of Pennsylvania,” as he called it in a letter to a friend in Boston, declared …

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Medicine (Colonial Era)

WEBMedicine (Colonial Era) In colonial Philadelphia, physicians and other medical practitioners contended with a difficult disease environment. The best medical efforts of the day were …

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Hospitals (Economic Development)

WEBHospitals (Economic Development) By Guian McKee. As the twenty-first century began, hospitals and academic medical centers played a central role in the economies of many …

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Board of Health (Philadelphia)

WEBThe revolutions in medicine offered the first solid theoretical foundation for modern public health efforts in Philadelphia. For instance, the board, which had recorded deaths since …

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia

WEBEssay. One of the oldest professional medical societies in the United States, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia was founded in 1787 “to advance the science of medicine …

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Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

WEBThe Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, founded in 1850 as the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, was the first medical school in the world for women authorized …

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Byberry (Philadelphia State Hospital)

WEBBy George W. Dowdall. From the arrival of its first patients in 1911 to 1990, when the Commonwealth formally closed it down, the Philadelphia State Hospital, popularly …

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Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC)

WEBIn the 1960s, after leading protest campaigns to expose discriminatory hiring and open thousands of jobs to African Americans, the Reverend Leon Sullivan (1922-2001) …

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AIDS and AIDS Activism

WEBBy 2010 Philadelphia accounted for the highest proportion of AIDS cases in Pennsylvania, surpassing other counties by far (20,411 diagnosed cases from 1980 to 2010, compared …

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Medical Publishing

WEBSaunders Publishing Catalogue for 1893. Medical publishers in Philadelphia offered books to fill every need of doctors and medical students. In this list of books published by W. B. …

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Civil War Sanitary Fairs

WEBBy Kerry L. Bryan. Philadelphia’s Civil War sanitary fairs represented the spirit of patriotic volunteerism that pervaded the city during the Civil War. These grassroots efforts, …

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