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Anonymous medical notebook

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1930.
Call number: mssHM 80451
Provenance: On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
Associated organization: Los Angeles County Medical Association,
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Anonymous student's notebook

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This anonymous student's notebook contains a list of various titles. Subject matter includes English literature, political writings, scientific texts, and books in a foreign language.

mssHM 80231

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Notebook containing a list of lawyers and judges with prominent cases

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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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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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Anonymous letter to "Ma,"

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This letter written to "Ma," concerns the current situation of the two anonymous individuals taking care of "Mr. R." He appears to be diagnosed with rheumatism, and much of the letter concerns his health.

mssHM 80233

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Lewis Grant Wilson notebook

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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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Jack London notebook

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Although this was originally Jack London's high school geometry notebook, London used it as a scrapbook after the original use. Most of the notebook pages have bits of paper glued onto them with quotes, lists of names (surnames, female names, male names, etc.), as well as lists of words in their vernacular such as "White Southern Vernacular," "Low Irish Vernacular," "California Spanish Vernacular," etc. Most of that material is typewritten but there is also handwritten material by London in the notebook. There are still several pages with mathematical equations in London's hand. Handwritten on the cover: "Jack London - Geometry" and "A.U.A.-'96."

mssHM 80607

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