Manuscripts

Notes of lectures by Dr. Edward Swift Dunster

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Description: The notes cover lectures chiefly about obstetrics and women diseases as well as Scarlet Fever and Measles. The author of the notes is unknown but might be a relative of Lyman Brewer who himself received a medical degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1932 and was the former owner of these notes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1886-1887.
Call number: mssHM 74833
Provenance: On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
Dimensions: 23 cm :
Associated people: Brewer, Lyman A.,
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George E. Blakeslee notebook

Manuscripts

George E. Blakeslee's notebook contains transcriptions of lectures on the diseases of children and the practice of midwifery. The lecturers were Doctors Eli Ives and Nathan Smith. The lectures also included surgical practices for obstetrics. The lectures are indexed, however, notes for the first lecture actually begins on page 307.

mssHM 74092

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Recipe book on gynecology and pediatrics

Manuscripts

Manuscript is a compendium of "home remedies" concerning obstetrics and complications of pregnancy, as well as diseases of young children. The recipes include: inducing birth, when the baby in utero is weak, how the mother should be cleansed after wards, causes of miscarriage, care of the breast, and others. Also included are general recipes for post-partum mothers (often involving wine); newborn children who refuse to sleep; against children's "plague;" night sweats; coughs; screaming; headaches; chicken pox or measles; and both "red" and "white" dysentery. The volume was probably written in south Germany. Written in German cursive in brown ink on paper; bound in contemporary red-stained velum with remains of ties.

mssHM 83499

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Lyman Brewer papers

Manuscripts

Letters and a medical journal of Lyman Augustus Brewer, a Civil War surgeon who served in the Ohio infantry. Also includes some family papers.

mssBrewer

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Notes on chemistry taken from the lectures of Dr. John P. Emmet

Manuscripts

The volume contains Fulton's notes from a chemistry class taught by Professor John P. Emmet in the spring of 1834.

mssHM 72083

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Warner's calendar of medical history : for the use of the medical profession

Rare Books

Illustrated diary issued by William R. Warner & Co. in London (there is also an edition issued in New York). Includes short pieces at the bottom of each page about therapies, physicians and miscellanea from the history of medicineas well as advertising Warner's pharmaceutical products. There are sections (which vary from diary to diary) about nutrition, diseases, drug action, poisoning and obstetrics.

653017

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Lectures on infection and immunity: typescript

Manuscripts

This volume contains the lectures given by Welch from October to December 1907. The lectures deal with infection and immunity but more specifically they cover bacteria, infectious diseases, immunity, and toxins. The lectures are typed but contain handwritten edits.

mssHM 76722

Notes of lectures by Dr. Edward Swift Dunster

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