THOMPSON, WILLIAM GILMAN.


Papers and Discussions Upon Medical Topics. Scrapbook, containing approximately 200 items proofs, extracts, and clippings, [New York], 1883-1910. Folio. Half calf and marbled boards. Spine starting to detach, wear to covers, pages browned and chipping.Large scrapbook containing proofs, extracts, and clippings of Thompson's medical publications, newspaper clippings regarding the tensions surrounding the founding of Cornell University Medical College. Items related to his medical associations and organizations include programs of meetings of the American Society for Physical Research, the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Clinical Society, Practitioners' Society of New York, the Sanitary Aid Society, and a 13-page typewritten document Report of the Library Committee [of the New York Academy of Medicine] for the Year 1898. Hospital related correspondence include notices of his staff positions at the New York Cancer Hospital, New York Hospital, and the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. There are also course lists detailing classes he taught at Bellevue Hospital and the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, and advertising leaflets and other ephemera relating to books he authored, edited, or contributed to. The numerous other pieces of ephemera include announcements for the Summer and Winter Quiz at Roosevelt Hospital for 1884 and 1885, which Thompson taught with William S. Halsted.WITH: Photogravure portrait of Gilman, 255 x 180 mm, with facsimile signature at bottom. Sheet size 390 x 280 mm. Browning at margins.WITH: Broadsheet with a biographical sketch of Gilman, 388 x 281 mm, written in the present tense (thus during Gilman's lifetime), with the title "Professor of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, New York City."