Found 5 collections related to Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

Gustav Scholer (1851-1928) was a German-American physician who served as coroner of New York City. He worked for various hospitals, held public health positions, served as a contract surgeon in the U.S. Army in World War I, was examining surgeon for the U.S. Bureau of Pensions, and was active in German-American and civic organizations. Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, medical records, writings, photographs, and printed matter documenting Scholer's work as a physician and his participation in German-American societies. Correspondence includes letters written to and by Scholer in his capacity as coroner and as manager of Manhattan State Hospital (Manhattan Psychiatric Center on Ward's Island); others relate to his organizational activities and his efforts to aid Germans and Austrians during World War I. Medical records are from the New York Coroner's Office, Manhattan State Hospital, and U.S. Bureau of Pensions. Other medical records and papers contain birth and death certificates, Scholer's teaching notes and prescription records. His membership papers include correspondence and materials pertaining to New York Turn Verein, Arion Society and other organizations. Also, writings of Scholer and Dr. Joseph B. Mauch; photographs of disasters, such as the General Slocum Steamship disaster, that Scholer attended as coroner; and printed ephemera. less

Material relating to Edward Houghton James (1820-1893), a New York City physician and assistant superintendent of the New York City Health Department. Includes a notebook of medical recipes; letters to his daughter relating to family matters; biographical notes; transcripts of articles from the Sanitary News; transcripts of a commencement address and unidentified speech; a scrapbook containing obituaries of Dr. James; and other memorial material less

David Miller Anderson (1837-1903) was a Pennsylvania physician residing in Venetia, Peters Township, Washington County. After serving as an assistant surgeon during the United States Civil War, Anderson attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, graduating in February 1866. He married Charity Sauns Wright (1840-1925) of Peters Township, where their first child was born on July 3, 1866. In later life he was active in the coal business and served in the Pennsylvania state legislature. D. M. Anderson's medical casebook, 1865-1869 (1 volume), contains brief case notes, mostly in journal form, providing patient name, age, diagnosis and treatment. He records the treatment of patients while a student at Bellevue Hospital Medical College and in subsequent practice at an unstated location, assumed to be Pennsylvania for entries dated 1866 onwards. Most entries concern the treatment of women in childbirth and their recuperation. There are 36 unnumbered pages of entries in pencil and ink interspersed in a bound volume of approximately 200 pages; the rest of the volume is blank. The first three pages of text contain details of two orthopedic cases presented by Professors [Willard] Parker and [James R.] Wood respectively, 1865 November. Notes on various remedies are followed by an "Obstetric Record," 1866 October-December; a record of "Obstetric Cases," [1866] July-1869 October; and cases under "General Practice," [1868?] December-1869 December. These document the treatment of children and adults for various conditions, and a surgical operation performed by Dr. A. M. Pollock with the assistance of Anderson and others. An Obstetric Case for "Hannah S" misdated December 7, 1861 corresponds to an Obstetric Record entry of December 7, 1866 less