MS058
Joseph Pancoast Collection
1835 - 1883
0.25 Linear Feet (1 Box )

Biographical Note
An 1828 graduate of the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Joseph Pancoast (1805-1882) was the second Chairman of the Department of Surgery (1839-1841) and the fifth Chairman of the Department of Anatomy (1841-1874) at Jefferson Medical College. In the latter years of his life, Dr. Pancoast suffered greatly from ill health. Upon his resignation from the Jefferson Medical College faculty in 1874, Pancoast's son William Henry Pancoast succeeded him. At the time of his death on 7 March 1882, Dr. Pancoast was the last survivor of Jefferson's "famous faculty of 1842."

Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials by or about Joseph Pancoast, MD, and his family from 1835-1883. The type of materials include addresses (1835-1872) such as introductory lectures to Jefferson students and commencement addresses (1855 and 1865), medical journal articles (1872), and correspondence (1869) concerning the vacancy of Pancoast’s chair due to ill health.

Organization and Arrangement

1. Addresses (1835-1872)
   Arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the sponsoring organization, thereafter in chronological order
   
   
2. Correspondence (1869)
   
   
3. Publications (1872)
   
   
4. Events and Ephemera (1886-1879)
   Arranged in alphabetical order by subject
   
   
5. Necrology (1882-1883)
   
   

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