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Ms021: Texian Loan Certificate, Robert Triplett

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Texian loan certificate No. 286 in the amount of $320, received of Robert Triplett for financing the war for Texas independence, signed by Stephen F. Austin, Branch T. Archer, and William H. Wharton.See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Probate Claim, Shields Booker

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Claim filed against Hiram Thompson for unpaid medical services and treatment on an enslaved person by Dr. Booker in Columbia, TX, approved by D.J. Holt, Justice of the Peace. . See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Receipt For Medical Services, Medications Rendered, Charles B. Raines Jr

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Receipt for medical services, medications, drugs rendered to Margaret Jones, paid in full by H. Jones, guardian of patient. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Legal Document Authorizing Permission To Sign Third Party Names As Security For Debt, Branch Tanner Archer, John Austin Wharton, William S. Fisher

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Legal authorization given by John A. Wharton and B.T. Archer to William S. Fisher to sign their names as security to W. Fisher's loan. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Promissory Note, D. Gallaher

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Promissory note from D. Gallaher to G? Adams to pay ten dollars, See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Restitution Authorization, Robert Anderson Iron (1804-1861)

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Authorization to pay Don Manuel Carabajal twelve hundred dollars, per a restitution of Congress, for delivering the laws of Coahuila and Texas to the Secretary of State, signed by R.A. Irion, See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Advantages Of Chemistry: Or, An Introductory Address, Delivered In The Chemical Theatre Of Jefferson Medical College. At The Opening Session Of 1834-5., Jacob Green, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

No abstract provided.

Ms021: Probate Claim, Robert Peebles (1798-1852)

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Claim for medical services, medications rendered to James Miles, deceased paid in full by J. Burnam, administrator of Estate of Miles. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Rental Agreement, Nicholas Descomps Labadie

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Rental agreement by Dr. Labadie leasing J. Morgan use of his lot for the year. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Reflecciones: Prevention And Cure Of Cholera Morbus, John P. Mcgovern

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Pamphlet by Cristóbal Ignacio Sánchez Aparicio y Romero, published in Chihuahua in Spanish, title and subtitle roughly translates to "Reflections: Doctor Cristobal Sanchez de Aparicio takes measures to prevent and cure cholera morbus and presents findings to the Health Board Commission of this Capital." See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Receipt For Medical Services, Medications Provided, Henry J. Munson

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Itemized bill for medical services, medications rendered to William Lockridge, deceased received payment in full by Rebecca Lockridge, Executrix for Estate of Lockridge. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

A Discourse Introductory To The Course Of Lectures On The Theory And Practice Of Physic, In Jefferson Medical College, Session Mdcccxxxii-Iii, John Revere, Md

Jefferson Medical College Opening Addresses

No abstract provided.

On Digestion, Anonymous .

Jefferson Medical College Theses

No abstract provided.

Ms021: Correspondence, Nicholas Descomps Labadie

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Letter to Captain Logan requesting assistance in recovering Dr. Labadie's horse, unlawfully taken by a Mr. Grigsby, Lake Charlotte, Trinity River. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Colonization Contract, Goerge Curtis

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Certificate No. 3817 from Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company conveying one labor of land to George Curtis for colonization. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Colonization Contract, David Gouverneur Burnet

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Certificate No. 479 from Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company conveying one labor of land to David Burnet for colonization.. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Charles Carroll Of Carrollton Writes About Flour Prices, His Daughter And Her Illness, And The Weather, 1829, Charles Carroll

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from Great Britain. He was a continental Congress delegate and a US Senator for Maryland. He was the last signer of the Declaration of Independence to die. This letter was written 3 years before his death at age 95. The Mrs. Harper he writes about it most likely his daughter, the widow of Robert Goodloe Harper.

Jefferson Medical College Matriculation Records, 1828-1838

Jefferson Medical College Records Books

Register book of all matriculated students at Jefferson Medical College from 1828-1838. Includes student's name, age, home state, and preceptor.

An Inaugural Dissertation On The Properties Of The Apocynum Cannabinum, (Indian Hemp;) Submitted To The Trustees, President, And Medical Faculty Of Jefferson College., M. L. Knapp

Jefferson Medical College Theses

No abstract provided.

Jefferson Medical College Register & Record Book, 1824-1830

Jefferson Medical College Records Books

No abstract provided.

Notes On Arguments For A Charter For The Jefferson Medical College, George Mcclellan, Md

Manuscripts and Journals

No abstract provided.

Ms021: Instruccion Formada Para Ministrar La Vacuna, Como Único Preservativo Del Contagio De Las Viruelas, Y En Defecto De Su Fluido Inocular Con El Pus De Esta (Spanish), John P. Mcgovern

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Instruction manual printed in Spanish by Rubio A. Serrano in Spanish of two case studies regarding how to distinguish natural methods to cure smallpox in children. Printed in Mexico City, 25 pages. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Notes From A Lecture On Midwifery By Dr. William Shippen, Jr. April 7, 1798; And Clinical Notes From The Pennsylvania Hospital, December 1799-February 1800, Uriah Derickson

Medical Student and Faculty Lecture Notes

This notebook was written by student Uriah Derickson at Pennsylvania Hospital. The notebook includes notes from a lecture on Midwifery by Dr. William Shippen, Jr. that were taken on April 7, 1798. Shippen was a professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital from 1774-1806. He pioneered courses in midwifery despite opposition, and warned against the use of instruments in childbirth (Penn University Archives & Records Center). The notebook also contains clinical notes written at the Pennsylvania Hospital under the direction of Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. Philip Syng Physick. The notebook mentions that on February 26, …

The Bill Of Rights: A Transcription, First Congress Of The United States

Pandemic Response and Religion in the USA: Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

De Ascite, Thomas Marten, David Ruhnkenius

Lecture Notes

This thesis is bound with Volume 2 of Gustavus Richard Brown's handwritten notes of William Cullen's Lectures on Physiology.

De Variolarum Insitione, Ephraim Howard

Lecture Notes

This thesis is bound with Volume 2 of Gustavus Richard Brown's handwritten notes of William Cullen's Lectures on Physiology.

Lectures On Physiology By William Cullen, Gustavus Richard Brown

Lecture Notes

Handwritten notes of William Cullen's lectures taken by an American student, Gustavus Richard Brown.

Lectures On Physiology By William Cullen, Gustavus Richard Brown

Lecture Notes

Handwritten notes of Cullen's lectures taken by an American student, Gustavus Richard Brown.

Via Recta Ad Vitam Longam : Or, A Plain Philosophicall Demonstration Of The Nature, Faculties, And Effects Of All Such Things As By Way Of Nourishments Make For The Preservation Of Health, With Divers Necessary Dieteticall Observations; As Also Of The True Use And Effects Of Sleep, Exercise, Excretions And Perturbations, With Just Applications To Every Age, Constitution Of Body, And Time Of Yeere ... Whereunto Is Annexed ... A Necessary And Compendious Treatise Of The Famous Baths Of Bathe, With A Censure Of The Medicinable Faculties Of The Water Of Saint Vincent's Rocks Neere The City Of Bristoll. As Also An Accurate Treatise Concerning Tobacco, Tobias Venner

Rare Books at James White Library

The baths of Bathe" and "A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco" have special title pages dated 1637. Imperfect: p. 265-272 mutilated.

Rb005: Anatomia In Qua Tota Humani Corporis Fabrica... Amstelodami, Ioannes Ianssonius, 1617, Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564, Thomas Geminus D. 1562

Anatomical Texts

A paper affixed to the rear free endpaper of the item states that is edition contains “fine reproductions of the Gemini plates.”

“Thomas Geminus was a a pseudonym for Thomas Lambrit, an engraver and printer…shown as active from about 1540; he died in May 1562.” http://www.arsanatomica.lib.ed.ac.uk/geminus.html accessed 11/20/2012. Geminus (Lambrit) printed Compendiosa totius anatomiae delineation aere exarata in 1545 copied from Vesalius’ 1543, De humani corporis fabrica . (Wellcome Library catalog, accessed 11/20/2012.)

This book is a 1617 reproduction of the engraved copperplates which Lambrit himself copied from the original woodblock prints of the Vesalius’ book.

Because the illustrations were …