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Benjamin Coles commonplace book
Item
Identifier: MSS 2/041
Scope and Contents
"Anthropologica nova seu liber medicus manualis, scrip[si]t. Binj. Coles, G. Fosters, 8 Septem[be]r.
1735."
Contains 171 entries including definitions, medical recipes, and prescriptions for ailments, diseases, and pregnancy. Occasional entries concern matters of materia medica or natural history.
Contains 171 entries including definitions, medical recipes, and prescriptions for ailments, diseases, and pregnancy. Occasional entries concern matters of materia medica or natural history.
Dates:
circa 1730s
Benjamin Rush letter to Mr. Mulford
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/323
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an autographed letter signed, 14 Oct. 1808, from physician Benjamin Rush, 1746-1813, to a Mr. Mulford. The letter is a prescription sent or given to Mr. Mulford, who was suffering from an ailment affecting his lungs. The letter lists guidelines to follow regarding nutrition, exercise, dress, and sleep. It also recommends bloodletting and blistering in the event of chest pain or heavy coughing.
Dates:
1808-10-14
George B. Green receipt [recipe] book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/057
Scope and Contents
One volume of remedies and recipes compiled by George B. Green, 1823-1862, with notes on sources of
information or use of recipes. Includes recipes for medical ailments such as croup, hydrophobia, and
dysentery, and household substances such as varnish, shoe polish, and ink. Several remedies
prescribed by Vermont physician E. E. Phelps for Mrs. George B. Green. Newspaper clippings and other
printed items laid in.One-volume daybook of farm and personal accounts, 1852- June...
Dates:
1823 - 1862
George Hamilton Chambers book of prescriptions
Collection
Identifier: 10a 468
Scope and Contents
One volume of 150 prescriptions dated 2 Sept. 1887 to 18 Dec. 1898. Each entry lists patient name, prescription, and date. Some entries also contain patient address and indications. Several leaves are missing for Jan. through late March 1892.
Dates:
1887 - 1898
Henry Bond manuscript on prescriptions
Collection
Identifier: 10a 48
Scope and Contents
One volume (169 pages) containing prescriptions and some household formulae at end. Flyleaf is dated 1815 and bottom entry on p.88 is dated 21 Aug. 1826. Includes references to Drs. Borrows, Samuel Jackson, Physick, Ferriar, et al.
Dates:
1815-1825
Henry Knox Stratford formulary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/279
Scope and Contents
Volume of undated medical and household recipes of eclectic physician with miscellaneous cash accounts and chronological list of obstetrical cases, 1855-1868. Includes one folder of supplementary material, ca. 1874-1890.
Dates:
1855 - 1890; Majority of material found within 1855 - 1868
James Snow medical notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/245
Scope and Contents
Contains James R. Snow’s prescriptions and recipes for common ailments and notes on lectures of Austin Flint on practice of medicine and Frank Hastings Hamilton on surgery from the Medical Dept. of University of Buffalo, circa 1848.
Dates:
circa 1848
John Dauntesey recipe book
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/070
Scope and Contents
Volume contains recipes, manuscript copies of printed medical and chemical works, and genealogical
information, 16521683.
Volume contains recipes and prescriptions in English and Latin, in various
hands, on pages 110
and 111212.
There are several references to James Blackburn, who may have
owned or compiled the volume originally, then given it to John Dauntesey in 1652. Several prescriptions
are specifics against plague. Pages 11100
contain manuscript copy of works printed in London in...
Dates:
1652 - 1683
Joseph Hartshorne casebook
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/038-01
Scope and Contents
Records of Hartshorne’s practice in Philadelphia from Jan. to Mar., 1828. Each entry describes the patient’s symptoms or ailment with some background information, then lists Hartshorne’s prescription or treatment.
Index to patient names is included.
Index to patient names is included.
Dates:
1828
Parkinson's Disease prescription
Item
Identifier: MSS 392
Content Description
This collection consists of a prescription for Parkinson's disease treatment, in French, written in Paris on 4 May 1877, presumably by Dr. J. M. Charcot. The name "Dr. Seguin" also appears. A typescript copy, translated into English, is available.
Dates:
4 May 1877
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