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English physician's manuscript recipe book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0090
Abstract
This mid-eighteenth century physician’s notebook, most likely English in origin, contains medicinal and food receipts, prescriptions, and contemporary treatments for several common illnesses.
Dates:
circa 1721-1766
Notes from medical lectures by Dr. William Shippen, Jr.
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0138
Abstract
This collection consists of one volume of lecture notes taken by an unidentified student who attended a series of lectures on anatomy, blood, and midwifery, given by Dr. William Shippen, Jr. in Philadelphia, possibly in 1762.
Dates:
approximately 1762