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Ph.D. Diploma of Roland G. Curtin (1871)

Ph.D. Diploma Awarded to Roland G. Curtin in 1871, one of the first diplomas awarded by the University of Pennsylvania School of Auxiliary Medicine

[Translation of original Latin text]

To all to whom these present letters happen to come, greeting. Since the degrees of the University have been established so that well-deserving men of the Republic of Letters and Sciences, whether educated in the bosom of our Alma Mater or educated in other places in disciplines of good arts and letters, may distinguish themselves from the common throng. Know that we, the Provost, the Vice Provost, and Professors of the University of Pennsylvania, so that the degree of Doctor in Philosophy might be pleasingly granted, attest to how much we have made the honest and well-equipped man Roland G. Curtin, M.D. of Pennsylvania fully instructed in a great deal of sciences. Therefore, by unanimous vote, we have created and established him as a Doctor in Philosophy and by virtue of this diploma we have granted to him with sincere heart the particular rights, honors, and privileges pertaining to that degree among us and among other peoples. In witness thereof, we have affixed the greater seal of this University to [this diploma] and we have subscribed our names.

Given at Philadelphia on the twenty ninth day of the month of June and in the year of Human Salvation, the eighteen hundred seventy first.

[signed]

Harrison Allen, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Comparative Anatomy; Horatio G. Wood Jr., M.D., Professor of Botany; F. V. Hayden, Professor of Mines and Geology; Henry Hartshorne, A.M., M.D., Professor of Hygiene; John J Reide, M.D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology; C.J. Stille, LL.D., Provost; By special command of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Cadwalder Biddle, Secretary [to the Trustees].

Calligrapher: Unknown

Date: 1871

Medium: ink on vellum

Location:

University Archives, The University of Pennsylvania
Diploma Collection, Map Case 52-5

Digital Reference: 20030719007

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