- Creator
- Brayton, Thomas A
- Physical description
- .9 linear feet (13 v.)
- Preferred Citation
- Thomas A. Brayton papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Thomas A. Brayton was an American physician. Collection consists of notes, medical recipes, case records, and miscellaneous papers. Includes notes on lectures by Doctors T.P. Batchelor, Henry W. Childs, John Delameter, David Hosack, William J. MacNeven, Samuel L. Mitchill, Valentine Mott, and Wright Post on materia medica, theory and practice of physic, obstetrics, surgery, anatomy, botany, and other subjects, delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City; medical recipes; record of cases at New York Hospital, 1823-1824; births attended, 1823-1833; list of reference books; problems in mathematics, navigation, geometry, and other fields at Albany Academy, 1820; and surveys of Adams, Mass., including what is now North Adams, 1825-1830.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchase, 1935Key terms
Names
- Brayton, Thomas A
- Batchelor, T. P
- Childs, Henry W
- Delameter, John, 1787-1867
- Hosack, David, 1769-1835
- MacNeven, William James, 1763-1841
- Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831
- Mott, Valentine, 1785-1865
- Post, Wright
- Albany Academy
- Columbia College (New York, N.Y.). College of Physicians and Surgeons
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Subjects
- Anatomy -- Study and teaching
- Botany -- Study and teaching
- Geometry -- Study and teaching
- Hospitals -- New York (State) -- New York
- Materia medica -- Study and teaching
- Mathematics -- Study and teaching
- Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
- Medicine -- Study and teaching
- Navigation -- Study and teaching
- Obstetrics -- Study and teaching
- Surgery -- Study and teaching
- Surveying -- Massachusetts -- North Adams
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328