Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Commonplace book, 1789., 1789. 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: 9Identifier: H MS c292
Scope and Contents:
Contains text entitled "A Short Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Physick by way of question and answer," describing various organs and their functions. This may be an original work by Hastings or a transcription from a medical textbook. A section follows with prescribed treatment for specific patients but not their diagnoses. Also included is a note to Seth Hastings from Washington, D.C., on 24 June 1789, regarding a treatment for a Mehitable Blakely. She was taking cantharides, a...