Homeopathy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Alonzo West lecture notes from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College
Item
Identifier: MSS 409
Scope and Contents note
This is a volume of notes taken by Alonzo West from lectures by Dr. John Sanders, Dr. A. O. Blair, Dr. S. R. Beckwith, Dr. G. W. Barnes, Dr. Wilson, and other lecturers at Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, 1865-1866. Topics include obstetrics, surgery, practice, materia medica, and physiology. The volume includes an index.
Dates:
1865-1866
Forster family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/300
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters sent and received, 1819-1887,
by members of the Forster family of Dauphin County, Pa., particularly
General John Forster (1777-1863); his second wife, Margaret
S. Forster (1804-1891); Mrs. Forster's son, James H. Stuart
(1828-1854); and Benjamin L. Forster, the second son of John
and Margaret Forster.Although the content of the Forster family letters is personal
in nature, there are many observations concerning matters of
individual and public...
Dates:
1819 - 1877
Mary Cash letter to Mrs. G. T. Bedell
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/010
Scope and Contents
Replies to inquiry concerning Mary C. Cash’s experience with homeopathic treatment for pain in her side
and shoulder during the "prevailing epidemic". Her children also underwent treatment. Mrs. Cash
continued eight weeks under the treatment of Constantine Hering, who visited her several times, but did
not improve. She treated herself covertly with balsam of wild cherry for one week and her symptoms
abated. Hering’s treatment proved beneficial to the Cash children, however. Mrs. Cash did not...
Dates:
1845
William H. McPherson notes on the lectures of Charles Hemple
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/042
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by William H. McPherson at Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania [Hahnemann
Medical College of Philadelphia] on lectures of Charles J. Hemple, 18571858.
Notes include listing of
substances, generally poisons or acids, with relevant symptoms and effects on various anatomical groups
(cerebral, nervous, inflammatory, cutaneous, gastric, etc.) and antidotes. Volume 1 contains entries A
through R; volume 2 contains S through Z and alphabetical listing of other substances.
Dates:
1857 - 1858
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