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Archives & special collections on women in medicine and homeopathy; Woman's Med College of PA, Hahnemann & Drexel Med history. Follow for #HistMed content.

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The Hahnemann Medical College football team in 1900 (and a friend who just swooped in). #GoBirds 📷 Hahnemann Class Book, 1900; photo of 🦅 by Kevin Burkett
Outdoor team photo of a football team in 1900, with the Eagles mascot Swoop edited in behind them.

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When Dr. Mildred Mitchell-Bateman accepted her position at Lakin State Hospital in West Virginia in 1947, she found that psychiatric hospitals weren't oriented around the goal of sending patients home. #WMCP175 📷 Mitchell-Bateman c. 1971. The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, WV.
Black and white portrait of Dr. Mitchell-Bateman outdoors with the state capitol building dome in the background.

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Her advocacy continued as director of the West Virginia Department of Mental Health, vice president of the American Psychiatric Association, a member of President Jimmy Carter's Commission on Mental Health, and beyond.
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All people in the mental health care system deserved dignity and hope, she maintained. "No one has a right to decide that patients aren't going to get any better." #WMCP175
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What does the film “Nosferatu” have to do with our collections, you ask? 🧛🏼‍♂️🐀 Why, we hold Constantine Hering’s impressive collection of works by Paracelsus! 📷 Illustration of Paracelsus from a scrapbook kept by Hering 📷 Promotional art by Albin Grau for Nosferatu (1922)
Elaborate illustration of the scholar Paracelsus sitting at a desk, surrounded by instruments, symbolic objects and scenery

ALT Elaborate illustration of the scholar Paracelsus sitting at a desk, surrounded by instruments, symbolic objects and scenery

1922 illustration of Count Orlok in silhouette, posed as if caught running in the night. His eyes glow through the shadow of his figure. Rats run at his feet. Cast diagonally across the image is “Nosferatu” in thin lettering

ALT 1922 illustration of Count Orlok in silhouette, posed as if caught running in the night. His eyes glow through the shadow of his figure. Rats run at his feet. Cast diagonally across the image is “Nosferatu” in thin lettering

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That idea is preserved and reflected in the homeopathic theory of “like cures like.” A thing that causes symptoms in large doses will treat those same symptoms in small doses (or, in Paracelsus’ case, a plant that resembles a body part will treat all ailments of that body part).
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Super cool. Also, did you know that Paracelsus invented Gnomes? More on that another time… To learn more about our collections on historical homeopathy, check out our research guide: drexel.edu/legacy-center/the…

Early Homeopathic Medicine

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At a time when many doors were shut to medical women, Dr. Jessie Fisher's expertise in pathology and bacteriology was her way in. #WMCP175
Newspaper clipping of a retired Dr. Jessie Fisher standing at her seat addressing banquet attendees. Headline below photo reads "Laboratory named for Dr. J. W. Fisher"

ALT Newspaper clipping of a retired Dr. Jessie Fisher standing at her seat addressing banquet attendees. Headline below photo reads "Laboratory named for Dr. J. W. Fisher"

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Clinical laboratories were almost unknown when Dr. Fisher graduated medical school in 1893. Her early work put herself on the cutting edge of the burgeoning specialty.
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From that cutting edge, she made for herself a home to thrive in the medical field. She raised the funds for Middlesex Hospital's first laboratory, and ran it herself when it was built. "I did everything except scrub the floors," she remembered of the lab's early days.
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Dr. Nwozo kept in touch through her post-war work in the civil service. Her team addressed local outbreaks of cholera, and she saw nearly 200 children a day at the General Hospital in Enugu. "The job is arduous," she wrote in one letter, "but I think we are getting somewhere."
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The next decade saw her apply that momentum to address public health on a broader scale. She led the establishment of the Public Health Division of the newly created Imo State in Nigeria, and served as the state's Chief Health Officer until her retirement in 1983.
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She'd had harrowing experiences during the war, but she didn't linger on them in her 1970 letter to the dean of Woman's Med. Instead, she listed supplies she needed, "with hope that someone, somewhere connected with my school can come forward and help me be a doctor again."
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At the end of the Nigerian Civil War, Dr. Nebuwa Nwozo needed medical supplies, updated textbooks and recent medical journals, and any news of her closest friends from the Woman's Medical College of PA. #WMCP175
Black and white portrait of Nebuwa Nwozo as a medical student. She's wearing a beaded necklace, floral shoulder sash and matching hair wrap. Her name is typed under her portrait.

ALT Black and white portrait of Nebuwa Nwozo as a medical student. She's wearing a beaded necklace, floral shoulder sash and matching hair wrap. Her name is typed under her portrait.

Selection from a group photo of the Woman's Med Class of 1957. Nebuwa Nwozo is centered.

ALT Selection from a group photo of the Woman's Med Class of 1957. Nebuwa Nwozo is centered.

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The Legacy Center Archives will be closed for winter break until January 2nd. Stay warm, and we'll see you in 2025! 📷: Shoveling snow outside of the Woman's Hospital on N. College Avenue, taken around 1900.
Two people shoveling on a snow-covered city block. A vertical sign in front of the buildings on the right reads "Woman's Hospital." Some color has been painted on to the sepia-toned image.

ALT Two people shoveling on a snow-covered city block. A vertical sign in front of the buildings on the right reads "Woman's Hospital." Some color has been painted on to the sepia-toned image.

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A shortage of doctors brought Dr. Leah Griffin to Albany, Georgia in the 1930s. The area's few M.D.s were aging out of active practice, and the small southern city couldn't attract enough younger doctors to replace them. Seeing a need, Dr. Griffin moved in. #WMCP175
Sepia-toned image of Black woman in cap and gown smiling towards the camera. Detail of one individual from larger group shot.

ALT Sepia-toned image of Black woman in cap and gown smiling towards the camera. Detail of one individual from larger group shot.

Sepia-toned group portrait of Woman’s Medical College of PA’s class of 1928. Five women seated in front row, six women standing behind them. Leah Griffin is in the back row, third from the right.

ALT Sepia-toned group portrait of Woman’s Medical College of PA’s class of 1928. Five women seated in front row, six women standing behind them. Leah Griffin is in the back row, third from the right.

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She moved her practice out of the city in the aftermath, hoping to reduce her workload. Still, rural farmers and their families needed care, and her services were in high demand. Dr. Griffin treated them for twenty years. Her caseload stayed full.
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When she died, a pharmacist she worked with wrote to WMCP, Griffin’s alma mater: "It was our pleasure to have been of service to her and her work, and for that she gave the last full measure of her skill, knowledge, and professional services to all at all times, ill or well."
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