Medicine and Health
Found in 297 Collections and/or Records:
People's Institute and Free Dispensary records
The People’s Institute worked to provide social services for the urban poor while the Portland Free Dispensary was an early effort to provide health services to the underserved. They served as a model of collaboration between the city’s charitable organizations and its medical community. This collection contains a variety of reports, correspondence, and other materials relating to the work of the People's Institute and Portland Free Dispensary.
People’s Institute and Portland Free Dispensary minutes of the board of directors
Ralph E. Peterson papers
Pharmacy collection of Robert Ambrose
The written prescriptions, scrapbook and assorted medicinal bottles were a part of Robert Ambrose's personal collection. Many of the written prescriptions in the scrapbook were created during the late 1890s by F.H. Caldwell, a pharmacist from North Yamhill, Oregon.
Pharmacy Department collection
The Pharmacy Department Collection contains one box of textural materials pertaining to medication management, the pharmaceutical departments of OHSU, news articles and newsletters (1979-2000), staff correspondence (1986-1988) and the Comparable Worth Study (1989).
Pharmacy Department records
Grace Phelps papers
Grace Phelps (1871-1952) was a prominent Oregonian health professional and nursing advocate who maintained a career as a practicing nurse from approximately 1900 to 1942. This collection houses the professional and public records of Grace Phelps, and includes materials relating to her time as head nurse at Base Hospitals 45 and 46 during WWI; head nurse at the Portland Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital; and Superintendent at Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children.
Lucy Davis Phillips collection on women graduates of Oregon medical schools
Physician's receipt record book
The collection consists of one single bound receipt ledger for an unidentified medical organization listing monthly dues, initiation fees, and fines charged doctors as well as suspensions and expulsions of members from 1847-1853.
Donald E. Pickering lab notebooks
Donald E. Pickering, M.D. (1923-2006) served at University of Oregon Medical School from 1957 to 1963 as Professor of Pediatrics and then as the first director of the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. The collection consists of Dr. Pickering’s laboratory notebooks for a 1963 electron-microscope study of fetal bone development in rhesus macaques.