Lyman Spalding papers

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Correspondence to an unidentified recipient concerning methods of femur extension Spalding had used. He includes step-by-step instructions and a sketch of an instrument used in the procedure.

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Contains an invitation to tea from Louisa Adams (1775-1852), wife of John Quincy Adams, who was serving as Secretary of State at the time.

Scope and Contents Correspondence to the Standing Committee of Fairfield Academy regarding the committee's invitation to Spalding to serve as a professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery at a medical college that was to be established at the school. Spalding writes that he would consider the appointment if the salary was respectable, and he further suggests measures the committee can take to ensure the success of Fairfield Medical College, including creating several different professorships, sending...

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Contains an account of a patient case history and dissection assisted by Dr. Jabez Dow while he was studying medicine with Dr. George Kittredge in 1796.

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Correspondence from Jean-Guillaume, Baron Hyde de Neuville (1776-1857), the French ambassador to the United States, regarding Spalding's publication on the treatment of rabies with skullcap, which he promises to forward to the Medical School of Paris.

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Correspondence from Catherine Jenner, the daughter of Edward Jenner, who writes her father has been in low spirits, but will respond to a communication from Spalding when he is able.

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Correspondence from Dr. Edward Jenner, the English physician who pioneered smallpox vaccination, thanking Spalding for sending him bills of mortality from Portsmouth. Jenner also writes that he is cautioning physicians who administer vaccinations to closely monitor the pustules that develop, as there had been increasing instances of spurious matter being used, leaving patients unprotected from smallpox. Also includes a handwritten copy of the letter in ink.

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Correspondence from French surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey containing his thoughts on Spalding's publication on the use of skullcap in treating rabies. In French, with a manuscript translation into English.

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Correspondence from Nathaniel Lord, A.B., Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, regarding a catalogue of Harvard graduates he was selling.

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Correspondence from French physician and medical writer Jacques Lordat thanking Spalding for translating his publication on hemorrhaging into English, and praising Spalding's own published work on the subject. In French

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Certificate from Spalding's alma mater, Charlestown Academy, stating he has been regularly instructed in grammar, arithmetic, practical geometry, surveying, and trigonometry, and he is qualified to teach those subjects.

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Ticket admitting Spalding to practice at Pennsylvania Hospital and to use its library.

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Ticket admitting Spalding to the inauguration ball of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York.

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Unaddressed ticket of admission to commencement exercises at Columbia College.

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Ticket admitting Spalding to the chemistry lectures of John Redman Coxe at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Two tickets admitting Spalding to Aaron Dexter's lectures on chemistry and materia medica at Harvard in 1795 and 1796.

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Certificate initiating Lyman Spalding as a Freemason in New Hampshire.

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Ticket admitting Spalding to the surgery lectures of Philip Syng Physick and John Syng Dorsey at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Unaddressed tickets of admission to the anatomy and physiology lectures of Alexander Ramsey.

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Ticket admitting Spalding to lectures on the institutes and practice of medicine and clinical cases of Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Contains forty calling cards engraved "Dr. Spalding."

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Ticket admitting Spalding to John Warren's lectures on anatomy and surgery at Harvard in 1796.

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Ticket admitting Spalding to Benjamin Waterhouse's lectures on the theory and practice of physic at Harvard in 1796.

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Ticket admitting Spalding to Caspar Wistar's anatomy lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in 1809-1810.

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Manuscript address delivered by Spalding at the inauguration of Fairfield Medical College that includes discussion of the factors that contribute to disease, which he believes include "Climate, luxury, idleness, dress, [and] occupation." Spalding further comments on the history of physicians from the time of Hippocrates, and the practices he believes modern physicians should follow, such as devoting at least eight hours a day to study and maintaining case books.