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MG 826
ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF NEW JERSEY
Archives, 1775-1961
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New Jersey Historical Society
Manuscript Collection
Processed by: Erika Gorder
Susan Chore
1997-1998
Introduction
The archives of the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey span the years 1775 to 1961 and total 16.0 linear feet. The collection was processed as part of a National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant project (1997-1998) to arrange, describe and catalogue
Archives
Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs’s health care and social welfare-related manuscript collections.
Physicians’ papers originally grouped by format (e.g. casebooks, student notes, etc.) have been reorganized to reflect provenance.
Provenance
Gift of the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, 1973.
Organizational History
The Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, originally known as the Academy of Medicine of Northern New Jersey, was founded in 1911 for “the advancement of the science and art of medicine, the maintenance of a medical library, [and] the promotion of Public Health and medical education.” Dr. Edward J. Ill was elected the first president of the organization; Dr. Wells P. Eagleton and Dr. Thomas N. Gray, vice presidents; and Dr. Julius Levy, secretary. Other officers were Drs. Elbert A. Sherman, Edward W. Sprague and H.J. Wallhauser. Members met at a rented space in the Wiss building on Broad Street in Newark.
One of the early goals of the Academy was the encouragement of medical specialization. Specialty meeting sections were organized to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. Specialty sections over the years included: surgery, otolaryngology, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedic surgery, urology, ophthalmology, anesthesiology, plastic surgery, neurologic surgery and proctology.
In 1916, the Academy moved its meetings to the Department of Health building on Plane and William Streets in Newark. In 1921, the Academy purchased and moved to a mansion at 91 Lincoln Park in Newark, where renovations included the addition of an auditorium. In 1930, a library and reading room opened on the first floor. The library, open to non-members, was closely associated with the Newark Public Library.
The Edward J. Ill Award was established in 1939 to honor physicians for public and professional service. In 1945, dentists were accepted into the Academy as associate fellows.
In the late 1940s, Graduate Week was established, providing clinics, exhibits, panel discussions, demonstrations, lectures and courses on the latest medical advances for members, with the assistance and participation of local hospitals and medical schools. In 1952, the Academy’s name was officially changed from the Academy of Medicine of Northern New Jersey to the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey. In April, 1959, the Academy moved its headquarters to property on Belleville Avenue in Bloomfield, N.J.
Collection Description
The archives of the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey consist of four distinct sub-groups:
I. Records of the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, 1880-1963
II. Records of the New Jersey State Commission on National Defense,
Medical Section, 1916-1919
III. Records of New Jersey Organizations, 1856-1962
IV. Physicians’ Papers, 1775-1936
The collection includes minutes, reports, correspondence, membership lists, physicians’ ledgers, daybooks, and casebooks, medical student notes, property records, speeches, card files, photographs, financial records, printed materials, drawings and ephemera.
I. Records of the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, 1880-1968.
Records document the organization’s founding, structure, mission, membership and activities, including regular and medical specialty section meetings, lectures, and post-graduate education programs. Includes minutes, annual reports, committee reports, minutes and reports of medical specialty meeting sections, speeches, monthly programs, treasurer’s reports, financial records, membership lists, and lists of members who served in World War I. Minutes include presentations and discussions of unusual patient cases.
Also documented is the AMNJ’s affiliation with the Newark Public Library and the formation, collections, maintenance and usage of their own medical library. Includes records of the Medical Library Association of Newark (1880, 1905-1921), whose collection was transferred to the AMNJ in 1921: its constitution, correspondence with the Free Public Library of Newark, pamphlets, membership applications, and an annual report (1907).
Also of note: programs and correspondence of Graduate Week, a program of clinics, operations, exhibits, panel discussions, lectures, and courses on recent advances in diagnosis and treatment sponsored by the AMNJ. Also, press releases, invitations, and summary reports.
Historical information includes lists of presidents, anniversary programs and addresses, newspaper clippings, presidential addresses, and the 50th anniversary issue of the AMNJ Bulletin which contains articles on New Jersey medical history.
II. Records of the New Jersey State Commission on National Defense, Medical Section,
1916-1919.
Documents the recruiting of New Jersey physicians for service in the Medical Reserve Corps and Volunteer Medical Service Corps during World War I. Includes: correspondence of the chairman, Dr. Gordon Kimball Dickinson, lists of commissioned physicians, and government reports and circulars. Correspondence and documents of the Committee of American Physicians for Preparedness, Council of National Defense, and the American Red Cross. Red Cross documents include an official directory and correspondence concerning the ambulance corps and the assignment of Lt. S.J. Quigley.
Of special note is a County Medical Census of New Jersey physicians, which includes name, age, address, place of birth, marital status, children, hospital affiliation, staff position, specialty, and reason for exemption, if any.
III. Records of New Jersey Organizations, 1856-1962.
Includes records of New Jersey-based organizations, primarily medical societies. Correspondence, treasurer’s reports and financial records, 1947-1962, of the Essex County Pathological & Anatomical Society, primarily relating to the Society’s dissolution. By-laws and Minutes of the Essex Medical Union, 1859-1878, include presentations of unusual cases; among the members were prominent Essex County physicians Stephen Wickes, Edward A. Pierson, and J. Henry Clark.
Minutes of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine, 1874-76, 1878-79, include the by-laws and constitution, as well as presentations of patient cases and pathological specimens. Minutes of the Newark Medical Association, 1856-1892, also include presentations of interesting cases. Members included: Drs. Gabriel Grant, A.W. Woodhull, John J.H. Love, R.W. Clark, William H. White, P.V. Hewlett, Augustus W. McDowell, J.D. Osborne, Charles Kipp, J. Henry Clark, and Arch Mercer. Also, minutes, 1916-1924, of the Physicians’ Club of Newark.
Also, a St. James Hospital (Newark, N.J.) book of registry, 1900-1901, and the minutes of the Y.M.C.A. of Hackettstown, N.J., 1867-1868, which include its constitution, minutes of the first meeting, and poetry and songs.
IV: Physicians’ Papers, 1775-1936.
Includes the medical ledgers, casebooks, student notebooks, pharmacopoeias and writings of over twenty practitioners. Of interest are notes on the medical lectures of Prof. T. Gaillard Thomas on obstetrics/gynecology, which include over forty case studies. The student notebooks and casebooks, 1843-1870, of Alex Dougherty, Jr. include midwifery and general cases he attended to as a student and licensed physician. The casebook of Dr. J. Henry Clark, who examined returning Civil War soldiers (including Dr. Augustus W. McDowell), also includes medical ephemera from the late nineteenth century and notes on clinical practice. Another notebook of Dr. Clark’s details the effects of alcohol and promotes temperance.
The student notebooks, 1823, of Dr. J.G. Goble, include descriptions of the plague, dysentery, pertussis, otitis, erysipelas, peritonitis, gout, typhus fever, scrofula, dropsey, smallpox, worms, and poisoning. Other lecture notes discuss obstetrics, conception, labor, and menstruation.
The papers, 1892-1936, of Dr. John F. Hagerty include his writings and speeches on obstetrical cases, surgical specialties, scarlet fever, kidney disease, common problems in dentistry and surgery, and goiters. Scrapbooks contain correspondence and printed materials concerning his career, the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, St. Michael’s Hospital (Newark) and other local hospitals, the Medical Society of New Jersey, and the Essex County Medical Society.
Also of note: Dr. John J.H. Love’s student notes on surgery, 1898-1899; Dr. Charles Ill’s notes on cesarean section and gynecological surgery, and a record of goiter cases, 1931-1936; Addison W. Woodhull’s casebooks and diary, 1853-1871; and gastrointestinal instructional materials of Lewis G. Cole, ca. 1932.
MG 826
Academy of Medicine of New Jersey
Archives, 1775-1961
CONTAINER LIST
Box Folder Title Dates
I. ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF NEW JERSEY RECORDS
1 1 Minutes 1911-1915
2 “ 1911-1912
3 “ 1912
4 “ 1913-1914
5 “ 1915-1916
6 “ 1917-1918
7 “ 1919-1920
8 “ 1921-1922
9 “ 1923-1924
10 “ 1925-1926
11 “ 1927-1929
12 “ 1932-1933
13 “ 1933-1937
14 “ 1937-1943
15 “ 1944-1945
2 1 Minutes 1944-1945
2 “ 1946
3 “ 1947-1948
4 “ 1948
5 “ 1949-1950
6 “ 1950-1951
7 “ 1951-1958
8 Council Minutes 1951-1952
9 “ 1952-1953
10 “ 1953-1955
11 “ 1955-1957
12 “ 1957-1959
13 Minutes 1959
Sections and Committees:
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Section:
14 Minutes 1928-1932
15 “ 1929-1931
Box Folder Title Dates
Sections and Committees:
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Section:
3 1 Minutes 1932-1936
2 Surgery Section: Minutes 1911-1932
3 Medicine and Pediatrics Section: Minutes 1932-1939
4 Reports 1932-1933
5 “ 1947-1948
6 “ 1948-1949
7 “ 1949-1950
8 “ 1949-1950
9 “ 1949-1950
10 “ 1950-1951
11 “ 1951-1952
12 “ 1952-1953
13 “ 1953-1954
14 “ 1954-1955
15 “ 1955-1956
16 “ 1955-1956
17 “ 1956-1957
4 1 Reports 1956-1957
2 “ 1957-1958
3 “ 1957-1958
4 New Sections 1950-1952
5 Schedule of Meetings 1952-1953
6 “ 1953-1954
7 “ 1954-1955
8 Official Ballots 1914-1946
9 “ 1948-1954
Library:
10 Contributions n.d.
Library:
5 1 Committee Reports 1925-1933
2 Committee Minutes 1927-1935
3 Committee Minutes, Reports 1934-1945
4 Committee Correspondence 1938-1940
5 Committee Minutes, Reports 1938-1942
6 Supplemental Reports 1938-1942
7 Committee Correspondence, Reports 1940-1942 8 Committee Reports 1951-1954
9 Bibliography: Essex County Medical Authors ca. 1953
10 Quarterly Bulletin Editorial Committee Correspondence 1952
11 Medical Library Association of Newark 1880, 1905-1921
12 Materials re Tributes to Dr. Charles Kipp 1931, ca. 1942
Dr. Edward Ill
Box Folder Title Dates
Library:
5 13 Newark Public Library: Correspondence, Agreement 1921, 1939-1944
14 Newark Public Library: Correspondence 1946
15 Newark Public Library: Correspondence, 1948, 1952, & 1954
History of Relationship with AMNJ
16 Reports, Financial, Miscellaneous 1950-1953
17 Accession Book 1939-1943
6 1 Accounts Ledger 1905-1923
2 Account Book 1947-1953
3 Constitution & By-laws 1911-1954 & n.d.
7 1 Financial Statements 1922-1941
2 “ 1926-1933 3 “ 1939-1942
4 “ 1943-1946
5 Treasurer’s Reports 1948-1949
6 “ 1949-1951
7 “ 1951-1952
8 “ 1952-1953
9 “ 1953-1957
10 Appraisals: Furniture, Surgical Instruments and Art 1931-1949
11 Purchase of Bloomfield, N.J. Property 1958-1959
12 Purchase & Sale of East Orange, N.J. Property 1957-1959
13 Financial Assets 1928-1941
14 Building & House Committee 1939-1941
15 “ 1942-1959
8 1 Dues & Account Ledger 1922-1936
2 Dues Ledger 1937-1949
3 Expenses Ledger 1941-1947
4 Paid Bills 1942-1953
Membership:
9 1 Members List 1913-1956
2 WWI Service List 1917-1919
3 Resignations 1915-1917
4 Subscriptions for New Building 1919-1920
5 Deceased Members’ Information Cards, C-F 1911-1947
6 Deceased Members’ Information Cards, H-P 1911-1947
7 Rosters 1948
8 Applications ca. 1911
9 Applications and Ballots 1915-1933
10 Applications 1940-1941
11 “ n.d.
12 Applications and Correspondence ca. 1954
Box Folder Title Dates
10 1 Programs 1917-1919
2 “ 1920-1921
3 “ 1922
4 “ 1923
5 “ 1924
6 “ 1925
7 “ 1926
8 “ 1927-1928
9 “ 1929-1930
10 “ 1931
11 “ 1932
12 “ 1933
13 “ 1934
14 “ 1935
15 “ 1936-1937
16 “ 1937-1938
17 “ 1938-1939
Graduate Week:
11 1 Program and Correspondence 1950
2 Programs 1950
3 Correspondence and Notes 1950
4 Programs and Program Requests 1950-1951
5 General Materials 1950-1953
6 Planning and Programs 1953
7 Preliminary Programs 1953
8 Film and Exhibit Committee 1953
8a Graduate Course in Industrial Medicine & Hygiene 1943
9 President/Secretary: Correspondence 1914-1954 & n.d.
10 President: Royal A. Schaaf: Correspondence 1944
11 President: Stuart Z. Hawkes: Correspondence 1961
12 Printed Materials: Invitations, etc. 1914-1938
13 Printed Materials: Clippings, History 1924-1927
14 Photograph: Library Reading Room ca. 1935
15 Tribute to Dr. Edgar Ill n.d.
12 Historical Information:
1 List of Presidents 1931
2 Printed Materials: 30th anniversary program, clippings, 1920-1953
presidential address, 25th anniversary address
3 Speeches, Correspondence 1943-1968
4 30th and 50th Anniversary Materials, Circulars 1920-1961
5 Sprague Data on Academies of Medicine in U.S. 1939-1941
6 Statistical Data 1917-1945
Box Folder Title Dates
13 1 Visitors registers 1920-1937
2 “ 1938-1949
II. N.J. STATE COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL DEFENSE, MEDICAL SECTION:
Chairman’s Correspondence: (Dr. Gordon Kimball Dickinson)
14 1 Committee of American Physicians for Preparedness 1916-1917
2 Chairman’s Correspondence 1917
3 Oral Unit (Dentistry) 1917
4 Red Cross Ambulance/ Lt. S.J. Quigley 1917 5 First Aid/Red Cross Assistants 1917
6 Board of Experts 1917
7 Medical Student Exemptions 1917
8 Hospital Unit, Surgeon General 1917
9 Resolutions, Medical Draft 1917
10 American Red Cross 1917-1918
11 American Red Cross Ambulance/Lt. S.J. Quigley 1917-1918
12 Commissioned Physicians 1917-1918
13 Chairman’s Correspondence Jan.-Apr. 1918
14 “ May-July 1918
15 County Auxiliary Committees Jan.-July 1918
16 Chairman’s Correspondence Aug.1918-1919
17 County Medical Societies: Resolutions 1917
18 Lists and Notices n.d.
19 Printed Materials 1917-18
20 County Auxiliary Committees Jan. 1918
21 “ 1917-1918
22 “ n.d.
23 State Committee for the National Defense/Red Cross 1917
State Committee
24 American Red Cross Ambulance Co. 34 (Hudson County) ca. 1917-1919
25 Commissioned Physicians Lists 1917-1918
26 Committee of American Physicians 1916-1917
27 Physicians’ Classification Forms (Trenton) ca. 1916-1919
15 1 World War I Newspapers Clippings 1917
2 New Jersey Medical Census: Correspondence and Lists 1917-1918
3 New Jersey Medical Census: Lists ca. 1917
4 County Medical Census: Forms and other Printed Materials ca. 1917-1918
5 County Medical Census: Correspondence May-June 1918
6 County Medical Census 1918-1919
Hudson County Medical Census:
7 Lists ca. 1918
8 Class A (Eligible and Volunteers) ca. 1918
9 Class B(a) (No Exemption “ready to go”) ca. 1918
Box Folder Title Dates
Hudson County Medical Census:
15 10 Class B(b) & B(c) (No Exemption, Deferred) ca. 1918
11 Class C(a) & (b) (Claiming Exemption) ca. 1918
12 Class C(c) & (d) (Claiming Exemption) ca. 1918
13 Class C(e) & E (Claiming Exemption/over 55) ca. 1918
14 County Medical Census: Miscellaneous 1918
15 Atlantic and Bergen Counties 1918
16 Burlington through Hunterdon Counties 1918
17 Mercer through Warren Counties ca. 1918
18 Correspondence 1918-1919
19 Medical Officers Reserve Corps. Eligibles ca. 1918
20 “ ca. 1918
21 Medical Officers Reserve Corps. Letters of 1917-1918
Recommendation
16 1 Medical Census Information Cards, New 1918
Jersey Counties, A-M
17 1 Medical Census Information Cards, New 1918
Jersey Counties, N-W
III. ORGANIZATIONS
Essex County Pathological & Anatomical Society:
18 1 Financial/Bank Records 1947-1955
2 “ 1956-1962
3 Society Dissolution Materials 1962-1968
4 Essex Medical Union: Proceedings/Meetings 1859-1878
5 Essex Medical Union: Constitution & By-laws n.d.
6 Physicians’ Club of Newark: Minutes 1916-1924
19 1 St. James Hospital, Newark, N.J.: First Book of Registry 1900-1901
2 Y.M.C.A. of Hackettstown, N.J.: Minutes 1867-1868
20 (BOS) New Jersey Academy of Medicine: Minutes 1874-76, 1878-79
21 (BOS) Newark Medical Association: Minutes 1856-1884
22 (BOS) Newark Medical Association: Minutes 1885-1892, 1915
Box Folder Title Dates
IV: PHYSICIANS
23 (BOS) Dr. J. Henry Clark: Ledger 1887-1900
24 1 Dr. J. Henry Clark, Medical Examiner, New York, N.Y.: 1865-1900
Casebook
25 (BOS) Dr. Cooke: Account Books (Day Books) 2 vols. 1823-1850
1834-1858
26 (BOS) Dr. David Craig: Medical Ledger 1775-1790
Dr. J. H. Clark (1814-69):
27 1 Casebook 1849-1850
2 Notebook on Temperance; Effects of Alcoholism n.d.
3 Dr. Frederick Cooke: Mathematics Notebook 1822-1828
Dr. Alex Dougherty, Jr.:
4 Student notebook, College of Physicians and 1843-1852
Surgeons (N.Y.)
5 Casebook 1859-1870
6 Casebooks 1866-1869
7 Levi B. Gibbs: Account Book “Day Book” 1846-1857
28 (BOS) Levi B. Gibbs: Account Book “Day Book” 1864-1872
29 1 Levi B. Gibbs: Account Book “Day Book” 1872-1876
Dr. I.G. Goble:
2 Student Notebooks (2 volumes) 1823
3 Student Notebook ca. 1823
Dr. John F. Hagerty:
4 Biographical Sketch & Certificates 1892-1898
5 Livingston Avenue High School (New Brunswick, N.J.) 1887, 1937
Memorabilia
6 Speeches & Writings ca. 1911-1931
30 1 Dr. John F. Hagerty: Scrapbook 1900-1933
Dr. John F. Hagerty:
31 1 Speeches/Writings ca. 1911-1931
2 Speeches and Miscellaneous ca. 1911-1933
3 Medical Society of N.J. Publications 1917-1936
4 Miscellaneous 1931-1936
Box Folder Title Dates
31 5 Dr. Peter V.P. Hewlett: Student Notes (University Medical 1852, 1867
College, N.Y.)
6 Thomas G. Howell: Pharmacopoeia “Prescription Book” 1836
7 Dr. Charles Ill: Notes on Cesarean Section & n.d.
Gynecological Surgery
8 Dr. J.J.H. Love/Dr. Leslie Clifford Love: Student Notes 1898-1899 (Surgery)
Dr. J.J.H. Love\Dr. Leslie Clifford Love:
32 1 Student Notes (Surgery) 1899-1900
2 Casebook 1892-1896
3 Casebook 1896-1913
4 Papers removed from Casebooks 1896-1913
5 Dr. J.J.H. Love: Clinical Notebook and Pharmacopoeia 1837-1893
33 1 Dr. Arch Mercer: Student Notes on Alonzo Clark & 1869-1870
Prof. Markor (?) Lectures, College of Physicians
& Surgeons (N.Y.)
2 Dr. Isaac S. Nichols: Pharmacopoeia 1858-1878
3 Dr. J. Pascal Smith: Student Notes 1864-1869
Dr. William Clay Wallace:
4 Pharmacopoeia 1856
5 Notebook/Daybook 1850-1853
34 1 Dr. Gertrude Watson: Pharmacopoeia ca. 1898-1899
2 Dr. Samuel Wilson: Pharmacopoeia “A Collection of n.d.
the Most Improved Recipes Now Used”
Dr. Addison W. Woodhull:
3 Student Notebook, Diary 1852-1866
4 Casebook for Bedford, Mott, Post and Metcalf Clinics 1853-1856
5 Letters Received 1861
6 Casebook 1868-1871
7 Unidentified: Appointment Book 1819-1820
8 Unidentified: Receipt Book 1817-1847
35 1 Unidentified: Student Notes on Dr. Mitchell’s Lectures 1818-1819
on Natural History; also Lectures on Botany
2 Unidentified: Student Notes on: eye, ear, tongue, ca. 1840
electricity
3 Unidentified: Student Notes 1867
Box Folder Title Dates
35 4 Unidentified: “Report of the Clinique for Diseases 1872-1873
of Women held at the College of Physicians &
Surgeons, New York…” Student notes on Professor
T. Gaillard Thomas’s lectures
5 Unidentified: Casebook 1877-1879
6 Unidentified: Testament Declaration ca. 1925
7 Unidentified: Record of Goiter Cases, (2 vols.) 1931-1936
36 1 Instructional Materials: Gastro-Intestinal Studies by ca. 1932 Dr. Lewis G. Cole
2 “ ca. 1932
3 “ ca. 1932
4 “ ca. 1932
5 “ ca. 1932
37 1 Instructional Materials: Gastro-Intestinal Studies by ca. 1932 Dr. Lewis G. Cole
2 “ ca. 1932
38(BOS) 1 Ledger not identified (2 vols.) 1874-1875
2 Ledger of C.W. Badger & Co., Newark, N.J 1867-1868
(Wholesale druggists)
39 (BOS) Ledger 1811-1834
BOS indicates an oversized bound volume or manuscript box.
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