Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Commonplace book, 1802 November., 1802 November. Digital
FOUND IN:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
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Collection:
Seth Hastings and Seth Hastings, Jr. commonplace books, medical records, and papers
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Series:
Series II. Seth Hastings, Jr., 1799-1830, undated.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 21Identifier: H MS c292
Scope and Contents:
Title page is inscribed, "Extracts upon Medicine taken from the Encyclopedia." Contains notes on causes, symptoms, prognoses and cures for illnesses including enteritis, hepatitis, hysteritis, rubeola (measles), and hamoptisis (spitting blood). There are a number of blank pages following, and the last two pages contain a poem entitled "Esculapian song," author name illegible, and the name Caleb Abernathy inscribed below.