Manuscripts
Anonymous medical notebook
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Anonymous student's notebook
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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 travel diary
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This pocket diary documents the travels of an anonymous New Englander traveling throughout the Old Northwest and the Great Plains regions, possibly seeking investment opportunities. He visits Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas, offering frequent comments upon communities from Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Leavenworth, Kansas, including comments upon religious practices, as well as encounters with different Indigenous peoples and Mormons leaving Utah. The author also comments on Mr. Chase, the owner of the Virginia Hotel in Jefferson City, Missouri, stating: "...owns quite a number of slaves -- quite a slave breeder." Along the way he meets William H. Russell (one of the founders of the Pony Express).
mssHM 83443
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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
Manuscripts
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