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Albums of photographs documenting cases examined by the Surgical Pathology Laboratory of Presbyterian Hospital, circa 1915-circa 1933. Included are photos of patients before and after surgery; of pathological material; and of histology samples. There are brief typewritten summaries for most cases.
Organization
Albums of photographs documenting cases examined by the Surgical Pathology Laboratory of Presbyterian Hospital. Included are photos of patients before and after surgery; of pathological material; and of histology samples.
There are brief typewritten summaries for most cases. Information usually includes patient's name (though sometimes only initials are listed), sex, and age, while occasionally nationality and occupation are also listed. The patient's complaint, medical history, diagnosis and treatment are included as well as an analysis of the pathological material. The long-term outcome of the case is often noted, and where a patient died while still in the hospital, a brief autopsy result is included.
Many of the entries appear to be contemporaneous with the case, while others appear to have been done at a later date. Most summaries are unsigned but a few have the signature of Arthur Purdy Stout, a surgical pathologist on the staff of Presbyterian Hospital from 1914 to 1951.
Subject Headings and Related Records
Administrative Information
Unknown. Archives and Special Collections has no information on the source of these volumes though it is possible they came as part of the papers of Arthur Purdy Stout. They were in the possession of Archives & Special Collections by 1997.
Volume titles were taken from labels which appear to be contemporaneous with the creation of the albums. Numbering was done by Archives & Special Collections staff in 2021 and reflects the volumes’ shelf order as found in 1997. It is unlikely they reflect any original order.