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Medical facts and observations
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Lewis Grant Wilson notebook
Manuscripts
This notebook, which was kept by Dr. Wilson from 1952 to 1954, contains notes on various medical topics, medical publications, information about other doctors, personal appointments and some information about his patients and treatments.
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Wiliam L. Smith notebook
Manuscripts
The notebook contains lecture notes from 1857. It includes lecture from five lecturers including Alva Curtis, Doctors Stockwell, Powers, Courtney, and Brown. There are also recipes for poultices and other remedies.
mssHM 74823
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Medical equipment, services, and supplies, A-Z by company (8 x 10 inches or smaller in size)
Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last collection of medicine prints and ephemera contains over 4,000 printed items related to medical, dental, and vision products and services in the United States from approximately 1750 to 1929, with the bulk of the content dating from 1850 to 1910. Most items are lithographs, but engravings and woodcuts are also included. The collection deals with medical and drug-related advertising and practice including the tools, equipment, and supplies used by the medical field in the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This includes products and services relating to human health care and the remedies to treat, relieve, and cure medical, dental, and vision conditions as prescribed or administered by doctors, pharmacists, dentists, and quack practitioners often affiliated with patent medicine manufacturers, drug companies, hospitals, asylums, institutes, and/or sanitariums. The collection deals with medical and drug-related merchandising, advertising, and practice including the tools, equipment, and supplies used in the medical field in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This includes the wide and varied assortment of patent medicines that proliferated during this time. The images provide a rich visual resource for studying the history of American medical practitioners, methods, and materials, as well as a perspective on ailments and illnesses common during the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints and ephemera offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Los Angeles County Medical Association printed materials collection, (bulk 1930-1989)
Rare Books
p. 292-295 Read before a joint meeting of the Los Angeles County Medical Association and the Los Angeles Surgical Society, May 19, 1932. Reprinted from the February, 1933 issue of The American Journal of Surgery (Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., publisher), New Series, Vol. 19, No. 2, p. 292-295. LACMA call number: LACMA Calif L160 C38c 1972.
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Hunnewell’s standard preparations
Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for Hunnewell’s standard preparations, pills, and treatments; rocky landscape with trees and mountains at center framed by packages of Hunnewell's remedies for coughs, headache, and other ailments.
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Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) photograph collection
Visual Materials
A collection of three photograph albums, approximately 200 loose photographs, and three panoramic photographs related to the Los Angeles County Medical Association. Subjects include portraits of LACMA members; medical personnel, buildings, equipment, and facilities. The panoramic photographs depict a group portrait of a member picnic in Sunland (1923); movie extras dressed as bathing beauties in Venice (1918); and a post-convention clinic at Hal Roach Studios, featuring the movie set and over 100 people in a group portrait (1920). The three albums are: USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, first post-graduate class, Summer 1900; California Hospital, Los Angeles, personnel (doctors and nurses), 1908. Includes original photograph of Leon Czolgosz with Bertillon measurements from the Detective Bureau, Police Department of Buffalo, New York, September 6, 1901; and Portraits of French Doctors of the second half of the 19th century.
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