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Receipt for radium purchase from Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt by Robert Abbe
No full textReceipt for radium purchase from Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, by Robert Abbe, including illustration and annotations by Abbe in English
Swallowed Objects from the Jackson Collection
No full textThese objects were removed from the airways and digestive tracts of patients by Philadelphia otolaryngologist Chevalier Jackson, MD (1865-1958). Jackson developed methods and tools to remove impacted objects from people’s passages and made many advances in the treatment of the head, neck, throat, and respiratory system. His carefully preserved collection of 2,374 objects ranges from pins and tacks to buttons, coins, medals, and toys (like the jacks and battleship seen here). Jackson donated the swallowed and inhaled foreign bodies to The College of Physicians in 1924, and they are on display at the Mütter Museum.
Jackson considered Case #1071 his most difficult. Four large, open, interlocked safety pins were impacted in the esophagus of a nine-month-old child and bound together with a mass of wool. The small size of the baby’s airway made the case especially difficult. It took Jackson an unusually long time to extract the pins in three separate attempts lasting 36 minutes, 24 minutes, and 19 minutes. He first had to disentangle the pins; next, he placed the two lowermost pins into the baby’s stomach, to be passed in the stools. Then he closed and removed the other pins “harmlessly and bloodlessly” through the mouth. Jackson often discussed this case as a horrifying reminder to not to leave open safety pins within reach of small children. In this case, however, the baby’s sister had fed the baby the four pins entwined with strands of wool
Radium Applicators
No full textA pamphlet produced by the Radium Chemical Company of Pittsburgh PA outlining the various types of radium applicators and their implementatio
Resident Physicians 1922
No full textGroup of resident physicians.Front of image: Identification at bottom of pictur
Resident Physicians 1922
No full textGroup of resident physicians.Front of image: Identification at bottom of pictur
Marie Curie meeting President Harding
No full textA photograph depicting Marie Curie meeting President Warren G. Harding on her 1921 visit to America
Letter from M. Curie to Robert Abbe
No full textLetter from Marie Curie to Robert Abbe describing the donation, to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, of a quartz piezo-electrometer used by Marie and Pierre Curie in their early radium research
Standard Chemical Company certificate for Radium needle applicator
No full textA certificate delivered to Robert Abbe certifying the quantity and quality of radium in a metal needle applicator purchased from the Standard Chemical Company
Resident Physicians ca. 1921
No full textGroup of resident physicians.Front of image: Identification at bottom of pictur
Invitation to a Special Meeting of the College of Physicians with speakers Marie Curie and Robert Abbe
No full textAn invitation to a special meeting at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in which Marie Curie presented the Piezo-Electric Apparatus which she and her husband Pierre used in their early experiments with radium. Robert Abbe also presented items from Lord Lister and Louis Pasteur for permanent display at the College of Physicians