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David Cox notebook

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Description: The notebook contains David Cox's notes regarding his medical education and his experiences under the tutelage of Dr. Walter Buell. Along with medical notes, Cox records his thoughts, the weather, his travels, and poetry. There is also a note with a short history of Cox's family.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1822-1825.
Call number: mssHM 74483
Creator: Cox, David (1793-1859)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
Dimensions: 16 cm :

Family records and diary of Delaun Cox Mills [microform]: approximately 1873-1900

Manuscripts

Microfilm of family records and an autobiography and diary of D.M. Cox, which is inscribed Shelley, Idaho. The family records were kept by Cox's wives Charlotte Kelsey Cox and Susan Brown Cox and cover the years to about 1885. The autobiography and diary kept by Cox is dated 1873-1883 and primarily focuses on his time at Orderville. There are some notes about Cox's childhood, including working with his father and traveling to the Muddy River. The pages on Orderville focus on Cox's carpentry and construction jobs, including making doors and barrels and acting as a building superintendent. He also describes raising the first silkworms in Orderville. A note in the back of the volume is dated 1900.

MSS MFilm 00186 item 01

Dr. H. Cox's compound syrup of sarsaparilla

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Image of a product wrapping for Dr. H. Cox's compound syrup of sarsaparilla; half-length portrait of Dr. Hiram Cox at center; explorer/naturalist with rifle and herbs in hand at left; ailing man seated next to a table and cat at right.

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Anonymous medical notebook

Manuscripts

This anonymous medical notebook is regarding injuries and infections related to the hand. In addition to his or her own notes, the author also cites from other experts in the field.

mssHM 80451

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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.

mssHM 76715

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Jonathan Bliss notebook

Manuscripts

This notebook contains Jonathan Bliss's notes on medical practice; the notebook was kept by Bliss in 1723 and 1724. The volume contains excerpts from the following prominent 17th and 18th century medical texts: Giorgio Baglivi's, The practice of physick; Ysbrand van Diemerbroeck's Anatome corporis humani; and Thomas Fuller's Pharmacopoeia extemporanea among others. The excerpts teach the medical theory of humorism, and occasionally include direct quotes from Hippocrates and Galen. They also describe numerous common medical problems and diseases from apoplexy and cancer to toothache and wounds, and also include treatments. The treatments usually include instructions for preparing herbal or other compounds as prescriptions, naming many ingredients from mercury to spearmint to vinegar. Often the excerpts feature "clinical" case studies of a patient with the relevant problem, and testify to the effects of the recommended treatments. It is believed Bliss lived in the United States at the time he kept the notebook; perhaps Massachusetts.

mssHM 74094

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David Fisher Day commonplace book and journal

Manuscripts

This notebook contains David F. Day's research on Junius. It contains lists of a variety of works about Junius, his possible identity, those who may have known him, etc., often with annotation to the left side in different ink, stating "I have it," or "To be procured." The list of works continues chronologically off and on throughout, sometimes with summaries, and annotations. The notebook also includes notes about the different people who could have been Junius including Sir Philip Francis, Benjamin Franklin, and George Grenville. There are also additional notes, clippings, several loose letters by John Edmands of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, and a cabinet photograph of David F. Day.

mssHM 84125

David Cox notebook

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