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Three surgeons standing in an operating room performing surgery with several nurses and attendants observing.
Portrait of a man with a mustache.
Three-quarter length, standing, left pose; holding papers.
Man standing with one hand in his pants pocket wearing a pocket watch.
Exterior of two-story brick building.
Three surgeons and two nurses wearing medical uniforms performing surgery on a patient in an operating room.
Physician seated in a chair tending to the leg of a seated patient with a nurse standing in the background.

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Man standing with one hand in his pants pocket wearing a pocket watch.

Nathan F. Mossell, M.D.

Nathan F. Mossell, M.D., (1856–1946) founded Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and Training School in 1895. He was a strong advocate of postgraduate training for physicians, which was not the norm in the late 1800s, and initiated such a program at Frederick Douglass Hospital. Dr. Mossell was attending surgeon, chief of staff, and medical director at the hospital for 38 years.


Courtesy Collections of the University of Pennsylvania Archives