Women -- Medical care
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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 S. Playfair portraits of cases of rest treatment
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/001
Scope and Contents
Before-and-after photographs of six female patients of W. S. Playfair who had undergone rest-cure treatment for hysteria and neurasthenia. Treatment included seclusion and rest, massage, electricity, and regimented diet. According to donor, S. Weir Mitchell, Playfair exhibited either the cases or, more probably, the photographs to British Medical Association. Playfair did describe four cases of this type to the Medical Section of British Medical Association, Worcester, England, 9 Aug. 1882....
Dates:
circa 1880s
