The Philip Dow papers contains personal, research-related, and professional correspondence; drafts and final copies of research papers; Medical College of Georgia memos, committee minutes, administration plans and procedures, and Commencement files; Physiology lecture notes, class lab experiments, and exams; research grant reports and applications; American Physiological Society correspondence; and two plaques.

This collection is comprised of lecture notebooks recorded by students at the Medical College of Georgia and other medical schools. When given on the notebook, the name of the student is given and the date. Name of lecturer and school is sometimes given on the notebook and is listed here.