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Orleans Parish Medical Society - An Exhibit of Memorabilia and Art in the Rudolph Matas Library: A Guide: Orleans Parish Medical Society, 1878 -

History of the Orleans Parish Medical Society. A guide to accompany an exhibit of artifacts from the OPMS donated to the Rudolph Matas Library, 2010. The display includes framed original drawings by John Churchill Chase.

Inventory of donation

miracle the timekeeper - print

Framed lithograph by Ed Miracle, Holding time back or The timekeeper, Gift to OPMS by Otto F Apel, III, Oct 26, 1976

Roster of Members 1878-1928

Published appendix in: History of the Orleans Parish Medical Society 1878-1928 by A. E. Fossier, Illustrated with Views of Meeting Places and Portraits of Members, Privately Printed,  1930

The Orleans Parish Medical Society began in 1878

Founders of Orleans Parish Medical Society 1878

Image of Founders from 1878. Partial image of Founders on Display in the Matas Library, April 2012. Gifrt of the Orleans Parish Medical Society.

John Churchill Chase - Illustrations

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Original illustrations by John Churchill Chase for the John Wilds book,  Crises, Clashes and Cures, a Century of Medicine in New Orleans, 1978 are part of the OPMS Memorabilia Collection.

Print Publications in the Matas Library

Orleans Parish Medical Society - Today

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Documents of OPMS

Regulations of the Orleans Parish Medical Society. Consitution. Orleans Parish Medical Society. New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, v. 6, (1878) p. 85-95

Regulations of the Orleans Parish Medical Society. Consitution. Orleans Parish Medical Society. New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, v. 6, (1878) p. 85-95

Orleans Parish Medical Society records, 1878-1996 | Louisiana Research Collection

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Tulane University. Howard Tilton Library. Jones Hall - Louisiana Research Collection has the OPMS Society Records.

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