Lecture notes
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Nelson Isham commonplace book
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/025
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the volume contains Isham's notes on the lecture courses
of Eli Ives on disease of children and materia medica at Yale
in 1826 and 1827. The notes describe the causes, diagnosis,
and treatment of diseases of infants and children (pp. 2-98)
and different medications and their uses (pp.101-132). There
is a topical index to the lecture notes on page 233. The remainder of the commonplace book contains medical recipes
and prescriptions (pp.99-100 and 171-193); a...
Dates:
1826 - 1831
Notes on the lectures of Eli Ives
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/123
Scope and Contents
Notes by student, possibly Richard O. Flynn, taken from lectures of Eli Ives on materia medica at the Medical
Institution of Yale College, 1822-1823. Ives defines materia medica, explains classification system, then
describes individual substances and uses according to system in the following order: narcotics, antispasmodics,
irritants, tonics, aromatics, astringents, emetics, cathartics, emmenagogues, diuretics, diaphoretics,
expectorants, sialagogues, and errhines.
Dates:
1822 - 1823
