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Box 1

 Container

Contains 21 Collections and/or Records:

8. Materia medica, circa 1825

 File — Box: 1, Volume: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains medical education and personal papers, 1824-1895, of three physicians of the Peirce family of Maine. Series 1 includes volumes of notes, 1824-1825, taken by James H. Peirce on Nathan Smith's lectures on surgery and the theory and practice of physic at the Medical School of Maine. One volume of notes on the anatomy and physiology lectures of John D. Wells is included. The series also includes Peirce's rough notes for an essay, probably his medical...
Dates: circa 1825