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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

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Jefferson Medical College Register & Record Book, 1824-1830

Jefferson Medical College Records Books

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

Manuscripts and Journals

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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

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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 …