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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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This anonymous notebook contains an alphabetical list of lawyers and judges along with the cases they have worked on, including speeches and written works before 1892. Note, the entries are written in an address book and the front cover is missing. The entire notebook is written in the same hand.
mssHM 80245
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Notebook, presumably of a law student at one of the Inns of Court in London, England. It includes notes on writs and on several cases chiefly regarding Essex, as well as a collection of precedents in copyhold law and an alphabetical index to Christopher St. German's Dyaloge in Englysshe bytwyxt a doctoure of dyvynyte and a student in the lawes of Englande
mssHM 55669
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A notebook or handbook, perhaps compiled by a law student or practising lawyer, of definitions and notes on various English legal topics and points of law (e.g. on aggravation, agency, bankruptcy, bills of exchange, damages. devises, deeds, ejectment, gaming, insanity, indictments, landlord, libel, malice, perjury, slander, trover, usury, warrants, etc.), with citations to past decisions and other precedents.
mssHM 70721
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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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Includes a three-ring notebook that appears to have been at least partially kept at Manzanar, with the bulk in Japanese and some correspondence in English, including a draft of an outgoing letter. One notebook in English is first aid-related; some notebooks are blank. Address books are undated.
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