The Medicine Collection is comprised entirely of printed materials such as bibliographies, biographies, pamphlets, and articles pertaining to women in all fields of medicine. The collection dates from 1826 to 1972. Materials on women physicians, nurses, and medical missionaries include mostly biographical information on individuals such as Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, Edith Cavell, Alice Hamilton, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Florence Nightingale, and Mary Walker. The Physicians section also includes files on countries other than the U.S. Files on women's hospital, colleges, and medical societies include primarily published material related to specific institutions in the U.S. and Great Britain. There two boxes of bulletins from the Women's Medical College of Philadelphia. There is also general material related to women in the health professions.
