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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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Manuscripts
This notebook contains mathematics notes taken by an unknown student at Glasgow College from 1815 to 1818 for Professor Miller's class. It includes diagrams and notes on algebra, logarithms, trigonometry, as well as Euclid's and Euler's mathematical principles.
mssHM 72759
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Manuscripts
The notebook consists of Francis Xavier Ammann's lecture notes from his freshman year of college. The notes are a year-long class on histology with a Dr. Carter. Also included are five mimeograph sheets with questions and instructions for assignments or tests and one is a final exam for his freshman year. In the notebook, there is one small sheet of extra notes.
mssHM 74485
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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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Manuscripts
The volume contains various transcriptions from medical books and journals. The topics encompass all medical care and the functions of organs. There is some emphasis on child and infant care. There is one page detailing Ephraim Baker's activities for a short period of time in 1789. There are also a few pages of sums and numbers, but no indication as to what they refer.
mssHM 74096
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Rare Books
This collection contains 324 booklets from the Little Blue Book and related series published by the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard, Kansas. The collection includes booklets dating from 1921 to 1943, with the bulk dating from the 1920s. The titles in the collection range from reprints of literary classics by authors such as ancient Greek tragedians, William Shakespeare, and Ralph Waldo Emerson to contemporary writings by geologist Carroll Lane Fenton, historian Will Durant. More than 150 authors are represented and the booklets often focus on topics such as free thought, philosophy, religion, evolution, natural history, biographies of scientists and historical figures, and guides and essays about philosophers and authors. The booklets are primarily identified as part of the "Little Blue Book" series on the front cover, but there are some titles from the Five cent pocket series; the Ten Cent pocket series; the Appeal pocket series; and the Pocket series.
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