Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Commonplace book, undated. 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: 28Identifier: H MS c292
Scope and Contents:
Contains descriptions of organs and fluids, most likely transcribed from a medical text. There is one section on phthisis pulmonatis, or pulmonary consumption, and its causes, symptoms, and treatment. Includes patient case histories, such as a man who was bled and given a bolus of sal nitre, camphor, and calomel, and a syrup containing digitalis. No improvement was seen, and he was then given columbo root and Mucquett root, bark, wine, and balsalm of tolu. It is unclear if the man was a...