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Medical account book

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Description: This account book includes patient names and fees paid for medical treatment from 1851 to 1881. The author is unknown but might be in Ohio. There is some mention of the treatment performed and reason for visit such as: childbirth, prescriptions of medicine, treatment of wounds, and even some dental work. There are 23 pages of newspaper clippings from newspapers in Ohio (the clippings are sometimes glued over the medical information). The clippings include poems and short articles, many of which are written by Thomas C. Harbaugh, a writer from Ohio. The clippings are from 1895 to 1897. Several pages have been cut-out of the volume.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1851-1897.
Call number: mssHM 75114
Provenance: Gift of Dr. Robert Stvgnell, 1989.
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Prescription book

Manuscripts

This oversize bound volume contains hundreds of prescriptions glued to its pages. The prescriptions usually contain the patient's name, doctor's name, the pharmacy or druggists' name, drug prescribed, amount, date, etc. They are all from Colton, California.

mssHM 79894

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Medical Ledger

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This ledger is an account book of patients and the fees paid for medical treatment. The author is unknown and the accounts seem to belong to several doctors; perhaps in Massachusetts. There is some mention of the treatment performed or reason for visit such as: childbirth, vaccinations, setting fractures, etc. Several pages have been cut-out of the volume. The spine is loose.

mssHM 74829

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John T. B. McMaster ledger of the medical practice of John T. B. McMaster and John L. Hearn

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This bound-volume is a ledger kept by Dr. John T. B. McMaster and his partner Dr. Hearn regarding their medical visits to citizens of New Town, Worcester County, Maryland from 1850 to 1852. The doctors include name of patient (some of the time), reason for visiting, treatment, date of visit, and the fee paid to them for services. The doctors treated both whites and blacks (free blacks, fugitives and slaves). In their ledger, if the patient was black, they would write "Negro" after the patients' name (although it is expected that not every black is identified as such). The patients include a slave at Beverly, a large estate owned by John Upshur Dennis.

mssHM 71482

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Three prescriptions for Charles Hatchett

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Three prescriptions for medications for Charles Hatchett, one on each of three pages; the prescriptions are dated August 5, August 6, and August 8, 1796. The page dated August 5 is creased and torn.

mssHM 82720-82722

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Jonathan Bliss notebook

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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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San Francisco pharmacy album

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A bound volume containing over 2,400 manuscript prescriptions filled by an unidentified San Francisco pharmacy. The dated and numbered prescriptions are mounted on both sides of each page, with approximately seven to nine prescriptions per page; the prescriptions are written on various billheads or plain paper issued by many different physicians. The prescriptions provide information about the doctors, surgeons, pharmacists, druggists, and patients in San Francisco during the latter part of the 19th century; among the drugs prescribed are cocaine, morphine, opium, and literally hundreds of other compounds and simples. There are a number of prescriptions written by women doctors, including Isabel Lowry, who studied medicine in Paris with her twin sister Agnes, and Tey Watanabe, who was a graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, the first Japanese physician licensed in California. With contemporary half morocco and cloth covered boards; the pages in the volume are heavily foxed with considerable oxidation on acid paper. The spine has perished, the rear cover is detached, and the front cover is mostly detached; the pages, however, remain bound and can be easily turned, although the binding is tight in several places.

mssHM 84058

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