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Contains 1 Result:
Address to the Medical Society of the County of Oneida at their annual meeting, 1829 July., 1829 July. 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: 26Identifier: H MS c292
Scope and Contents:
Manuscript address on topics including the origins of the human race. Hastings rejects Erasmus Darwin's theories on evolution, instead claiming humans descended from Adam and Eve. He also discusses the theory of animal magnetism developed by Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) and touches on the proliferation of celebrity doctors and quacks. He focuses on several people in particular, including Elisha Perkins (1741-1799), who marketed metallic tractors to treat inflammation and rheumatism in the United...