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Briggs, James A., 1831-1900 (Sc 1504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Briggs, James A., 1831-1900 (Sc 1504), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1503. Dissertation titled "Medical topography and diseases of Warren County, Ky." written by James A. Briggs at the University of Nashville in 1851. He describes his belief in the causes of malaria, and discusses cholera and other maladies that struck Bowling Green and Warren County, Kentucky prior to 1850.
Coombs, Samuel Williams, 1830-1882 (Sc 2602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coombs, Samuel Williams, 1830-1882 (Sc 2602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2602. Bound photocopy of the holographic personal diary of Samuel Williams Coombs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, detailing medical school, and his day-to-day life.
Westerfield, William P., 1835-1916 (Sc 2139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Westerfield, William P., 1835-1916 (Sc 2139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Microfilm copy of professional diaries kept by Westerfield, a Rochester, Kentucky physician, for 1895, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1908 and 1910-1915. The diaries record weather conditions and local fires as well as births, marriages, deaths, accidents, illnesses and surgery in which Westerfield was professionally involved. Includes a typescript with biographical information, description of the diaries, and listings of the births, marriages, deaths, operations, accidents, illnesses and fires recorded therein.
Barclay, David Porter, 1826-1862 (Sc 1914), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barclay, David Porter, 1826-1862 (Sc 1914), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1504. Dissertation of David P. Barclay, submitted to the University of Nashville for the Doctor of Medicine degree and entitled "Dysentery of Warren and Simpson Counties, Ky., 1854.” He offers his hypothesis about the cause of a dysentery epidemic in 1854 in Simpson and Warren counties in Kentucky.