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Isaac Hiester letter to Samuel Jackson
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/143
Scope and Contents
Hiester recalls experience as student sent by Caspar Wistar to Germantown to report on outbreak of yellow fever among several families there, circa 1805. Letter describes physical situation of Germantown and location of houses of infected families.
Dates:
1821-08-24
Isaac S. Thompson notes on the lectures of Colin McKenzie
Collection
Identifier: MSS 408
Scope and Contents note
This is a volume of manuscript lecture notes entitled "Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery by Colin McKenzie, M.D." The notes appear to have been taken by Isaac S. Thompson. There are 22 lectures; topics include "Of the Structure of the Pelvis," "Of Conception and Touching," "On Abortion," "Premature Births," and "Preternatural Labor." The volume also includes several recipes for prescriptions.An inscription on the inside of the front cover dates the volume to 1784;...
Dates:
1784; undated
Isaac Starr notebooks (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1986-11
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection primarily of laboratory notebooks relating to Starr's work with the ballistocardiograph. Notebooks include lists and graphs of experiment data, notes and calculations, patient information, typed summaries of experiments, notes for papers and presentations, and correspondence with other cardiologists and with medical records archivists. The collection also includes a number of rolled ballistocardiograph printouts on photographic paper; printing blocks for illustrations for...
Dates:
1931-1980
Isaiah Alden daybook
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/055
Scope and Contents
Daybook of I. L. Alden’s medical practice in Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford counties, Me., 22 June
18769
Sept. 1877. Daybook lists income accounts chronologically with patient’s name, date, charge, and
brief explanation. Includes accounts with towns of Jay and East Livermore and extensive notes on case of
paracentesis thoracis, 1877.
Dates:
1876 - 1877
Israel Parsons daybooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/298
Scope and Contents
The collection contains eight daybooks, 1855-1894, and
one ledger, 1872-1904, documenting the medical practice of Israel
Parsons in Marcellus, New York, and surrounding Onondaga County.
The daybooks list patients, services or prescriptions, and
amount charged; occasional descriptions of cases are included.
The final three volumes in the series have occasional marginal
notes in shorthand. The ledger, organized by name of patient
with references to pages in the corresponding daybooks, is...
Dates:
1855 - 1904
J. Arman notes on lectures from the Université de Montpellier
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/127
Scope and Contents
Student notes on materia medica taken by J. Arman at the Université de Montpellier, France, 1748. Notes are divided into internal and three classes of external remedies. Internal remedies covered are: cathartics, purgatives, diaphoretics and sudorifics, diuretics, aperitives, emmenagogues, cardiacs, stomachics, cephalics, febrifuges, carminatives, anticlementics, lithontriptics, salivants, bechics, astringents, absorbants, narcotics, and laxatives. Divisions of first class of external remedies...
Dates:
1748
J. F. Miles ledger
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/260
Scope and Contents
Ledger documenting medical practice of J. F. Miles in Hinesburgh, Vt., 1848-1860. Includes accounts with Town of Hinesburgh and payment of medical fees with goods and services.
Dates:
1848 - 1860
J. H. Marsden papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/066
Scope and Contents
One volume documents medical practice, 1847-1861, of J. H. Marsden, homeopathic physician in Adams County, Pa. Lists charges and payments, made often with goods or services, for each patient and information concerning occupation of each patient; bulk spans 1847 to 1861 with occasional entries through 1870s. One folder of material laid in ledger contains bills, receipts, promissary notes, and miscellaneous financial papers, 1851-1881. Index to ledger account names included.A second...
Dates:
1847 - 1861
J. Harold Austin papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1992-057
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of papers of J. Harold Austin. Materials include Austin's correspondence as Executive Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, including documentation of the Building and Library Funds; surveys of hospitals in New Jersey and Maryland (1946-1948); correspondence, minutes, and reports related to the Therapeutic Trials Committee of the American Medical Association; minutes of the Medical Board of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; manuscript notes,...
Dates:
1930-1952 1940-1952
J. Montgomery Deaver papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/124
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Deaver family papers, 1903-1978, assembled
by J. Montgomery Deaver, contains biographical information on
family members; financial material, particularly papers concerning
the estate of Deaver's mother, Caroline Randall Deaver; two
typescript addresses on surgical topics by Deaver's father,
John B. Deaver; and several photographs of John B. Deaver and
J. Montgomery Deaver.
Dates:
1903 - 1978
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