| 2 | Creator: | De Benneville, George,1703-1793. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Medicina Pennsylvania, 1760-1779, with additions to 1841
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1760-1779 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains sections pertaining to the theory and practice of pharmacy, a distribution of medicinal simples, directions for extemporaneous prescriptions, and an instruction for disease diagnosis. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1448 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | De Benneville, George,1703-1793. | Medicine. | Microfilm Collection | Pharmacology. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Leake, Chauncey Depew,1896- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A gentleman physician of New York, Dr. David Hosack, the great American practitioner of the early 19th century
| | | | Dates: | 1920 | | | | Abstract: | This paper, concerning David Hosack, and including illustrations, was presented at Princeton's Medical History Seminar in 1920. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.885.8 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Illustrations. | Leake, Chauncey Depew,1896- | Medicine. | |
| 4 | Creator: | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Fothergill letters, 1737-1778
| | | | Dates: | 1737-1750 | | | | Abstract: | All but one of these letters are to Charles Alston, the professor of botany at Edinburgh University, and concern medicine, botany, and science in general. They are dated between 1737 and 1750. One letter is to George Whately, dated 1778. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F82 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Alston, Charles, 1683-1760 | Botany. | Education | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | General Correspondence | Medicine | Medicine. | Science. | Scientific Correspondence | University of Edinburgh. | |
| 9 | Creator: | Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Erasmus Darwin commonplace book, ca. 1777-1929
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1777-1929 | | | | Abstract: | This commonplace book was filmed exactly as bound and contains notes on medicine, diseases, and weather; poems by Erasmus Darwin and others; family genealogy; letters; and sketches. There are notes by other family members, including his wife, his daughter, and his brother. There is a letter to "Major Darwin" dated 1929 taped inside the front cover, recounting the provenance of the book. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1299 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802 | Diseases. | Medicine. | Meteorology -- Observations. | Microfilm Collection | |
| 10 | Creator: | Rutty, John,1698-1775. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Rutty letters, 1732-1774, to William Clark
| | | | Dates: | 1732-1774 | | | | Abstract: | These are sixty letters to William Clark, a physician in London and Bradford, Wiltshire. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.448 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Clark, William, 1698-ca. 1780 | Medicine. | Microfilm Collection | Physicians | Rutty, John,1698-1775. | |
| 14 | Creator: | Pennock, C. W.(Caspar Wistar),1799-1867. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | C. W. (Caspar Wistar) Pennock papers, 1829-1891
| | | | Dates: | 1829-1891 | | | | Abstract: | These are primarily letters, with some receipts for medical services rendered included. They relate to the general social and intellectural life of Philadelphia and to publications on medical topics. Many of the letters are introductions to Europeans when Pennock first visited there. Letters dated post-1867 are to relatives and colleagues (?). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P3825 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Comstock, Andrew | Griscom, John, 1774-1852 | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Hays, Isaac,1796-1879. | International Travel | Manuscript Essays | Medicine | Medicine. | Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855 | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Pennock, C. W.(Caspar Wistar),1799-1867. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Receipts. | Travel Narratives and Journals | Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858 | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | |
| 15 | Creator: | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Caspar Wistar commonplace book, 1796-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1796-1813 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains medical notes by Wistar, including observations on yellow fever and arguments to prove its foreign origin, facts relative to the progress of the fever in 1797, the infection and death of Colonel Van Emburgh, the infection of the crew of the ship "Deborah" and of the Durham boat (1802), an account of the diseases which afflicted the family of James Hammar in Montgomery County (Pa.), facts relating to the typhus fever of 1812-1813, case histories (1796-1803), temperature chart (1758-1759, 1760), and a thermometrical journal (1760-1765) kept by Charles Norris and copied by Wistar from notes in possession of Joseph Parker Norris. | | | | Call #: | Mss.616.928.W765 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Commonplace Book | Commonplace books. | Communicable diseases. | Deborah (Ship). | Educational Material | Hammar, James | Medicine | Medicine. | Meteorological Data | Meteorology -- Observations. | Norris, Charles | Notebooks | Philadelphia History | Science and Technology | Scientific Data | Typhus fever. | Van Emburgh, -- Colonel. | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | Yellow fever. | |
| 18 | Creator: | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Darlington papers, 1777-1863
| | | | Dates: | 1777-1863 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes miscellaneous letters and drafts of letters; genealogical notes, medical essays, copies of letters and essays sent to newspapers and magazines; bills and receipts; invitations; military and other commissions; and a biographical memoir of General John Lacey, 1823. There are also papers, principally official, of his son Lieut. B. S. B. Darlington, U.S.N. | | | | Call #: | Mss.H.S.Film.14 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Darlington, B. S. B. | Darlington, William, 1782-1863 | Lacey, John, 1755-1814 | Medicine. | Microfilm Collection | Natural history. | United States. -- Navy. | |
| 19 | Creator: | West Long, Will | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Cherokee medicinal and magical texts, 1928-1936
| | | | Dates: | 1928-1936 | | | | Abstract: | Recorded in the Sequoyan syllabary. Part of the papers of Will West Long of Big Cove, Qualla Reservation, North Carolina. In the hand of Long, Morgan Calhoun, Lawyer Calhoun, etc.; several pages in English, relating to Indian masks and Indians and Snake Battle. List of dancers, 1936. Native American Images Note Part of the papers of Will West Long of Big Cove Reservation, North Carolina. Two notebooks written in Sequoyan syllabary. As a consultant to Frank Speck, Mr. Long (1870-1947) played a key role in collecting and transmitting information about traditional Cherokee culture. A unique example of Sequoyan Cherokee script known as "talking leaves." Of note, a green pencil figure sketch, 2 x 3", on page 55 of the smaller notebook. Presented by John Witthoft in 1953. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.C425 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cherokee Indians | Indians of North America--Medicine--North Carolina | Medicine. | Notebooks. | Sketches. | Southeast Indians | West Long, Will | |
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