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Brinton family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0453
Abstract
The Brinton family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.
Dates:
1715-1930
Notes on practice of medicine taken by S. P. Kerns from the lectures of J. M. DaCosta, M.D., L.L.D. Emeritus Professor of Practice of Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia Pa.
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0139
Abstract
These notebooks belonged to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, doctor Samuel Proctor Kerns and contain notes on lectures given by Jacob M. Da Costa at Jefferson Medical College from 1889 to 1891 on diseases of the nervous, circulatory, and respiratory systems.
Dates:
approximately 1889-1891