Manuscript Group 826, Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, Archives, 1775 – 1961
MG
826
ACADEMY
OF MEDICINE OF NEW JERSEY
Archives,
1775-1961
Finding
Aid
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, & Photographss 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 Academys 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 organizations 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, treasurers 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 AMNJs 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, treasurers reports
and financial records, 1947-1962, of the Essex County
Pathological & Anatomical Society, primarily relating to the
Societys 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. Clarks
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. Michaels 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. Loves student notes on surgery, 1898-1899;
Dr. Charles Ills notes on cesarean section and
gynecological surgery, and a record of goiter cases, 1931-1936;
Addison W. Woodhulls 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 Treasurers
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:
Chairmans Correspondence: (Dr. Gordon Kimball Dickinson)
14
1 Committee of American
Physicians for Preparedness
1916-1917
2 Chairmans
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 Chairmans Correspondence
Jan.-Apr. 1918
14
May-July 1918
15 County
Auxiliary Committees
Jan.-July 1918
16 Chairmans 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. LoveDr. 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. Mitchells 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 Thomass 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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