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A biographical sketch of the late Lieut. John T. Greble, U.S.A
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Biographical sketch of John Green
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This collection contains medical and pharmaceutical documents from Thomas Green and his son John Green as well as accounts with a weaver and cobbler. The medical and pharmaceutical documents include a 1753-1754 manuscript from Thomas Green likely to help train his son and other physicians. This document contains original pharmaceutical recipes and procedures for ailments from gunpowder wounds to cancers, many of which incorporated Indigenous peoples practices of using local and native plants for medicinal purposes. The medical case histories cover various patients, including women as well as information about an epidemic that broke out in the spring of 1754. The medical account book from John Green covers the last year of the Seven Years' War while military troops were stationed in Worchester, Massachusetts.
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