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Patient case histories, 1781 April 15-1783 September 10., 1781 April 15-1783 September 10. 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 I. Seth Hastings, 1772-1810, undated.
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5Identifier: H MS c292
Scope and Contents:
Notebook entitled "Hystory of Cases." Contains information on patient symptoms, diagnoses, and recipes for medicines administered by Hastings. For a woman with pleurisy, he prescribed a syrup containing roots of fennel, parsley, asparagus, and young burdock, as well as a gentle emetic, among other medicines. Also contains notes on treating women with puerperal fever (postpartum infection). Includes an account of an outbreak of dysentery in early 1783 and notes on his method of treatment,...