Registration Record of Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery (PA) 1881-1889

About This Collection

Register of the names of persons licensed to practice medicine and surgery in Pennsylvania. Information provided is name of practitioner, date of registration, county where practicing, gender and race of practitioner, place of birth, place of residence, name of institution from which received medical degree and date obtained, information on other degrees, place or places of continuous practice in Pennsylvania since 1871, and notes indicating removal or death. Images are grouped alphabetically by county, then alphabetically by surname and then chronologically by date of entry. Indexed internally, alphabetically by county. These records are part of the Bureau of Statistics which was created in 1874 under the Department of Internal Affairs.