The Philadelphia Pediatric Society

 

History of the Society

 

Historical Medical Images

 

College of Physicians of Philadelphia records

(Includes a brief history of the early days of the society,

as well as an accounting of the College's holdings pertaining to the Society)

 

The Philadelphia Pediatric Society and its Milk Commission, 1896-1917: An Aspect of Urban Progressive Reform

Source: Pennsylvania History 53 (October 1986), 273--288)
 

 

The First Pediatric Treatise in the French Vernacular

Source: Pediatrics Vol. 14 No. 5 November 1954, pp. 560-562

The Philadelphia Pediatric Society donated this book (Five Books on the Feeding and Management of Children From Birth by Simon de Vallambert; published 1565) to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1954

 

Emily Bacon, MD becomes the first woman president of the Philadelphia Pediatric Society, 1937

 

Plasmapheresis Edema. I. The Relation of Reduction of Serum Proteins to Edema and the Pathological Anatomy Accompanying Plasmapheresis

Source: J Clin Invest. 1932 July; 11(4): 683–699

A preliminary report of this paper was read before the Philadelphia Pediatric Society, May 14, 1929.

 

Scarlet Fever During 1915 in Philadelphia

Source: Am J Public Health. 1916 October; 6(10): 1104–1108

This paper was read before the Philadelphia Pediatric Society, Tuesday evening, March 14, 1916.

 

Proceedings of the Philadelphia Pediatric Society - 1907

 

Proceedings of the Philadelphia Pediatric Society - 1905

 

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