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Amariah Brigham letter, Utica, New York, to Rev. T.H. Gallaudet, Hartford, Conn., 1843, Jun. 6

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Letter (ALS). As Director of the New York State Lunatic Asylum, Brigham writes with news about the affairs of and events at the Asylum.
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Alva Curtis document, Columbus, Ohio, 1837, Mar. 5

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Holograph, signed. Certifies that Alfred Church studied at the School for six months. Gives details of Church's work during this period.
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Alva Curtis document, Columbus, Ohio, 1837, Mar. 5 1 items

A. L. Millin letter, [Paris], to "mon cher Labouisse.", 1806, Jan. 9

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ALS. Refers to the contents of a periodical, presumably the Magasin encyclopedique, which he edited between 1795-1816.
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Alfred Langdon Elwyn letter, Philadelphia, 1859, May 18

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ALS. Sends Mrs. Allen of Providence, an autograph collector, an autograph of financier Robert Morris. Writes of Morris' disastrous land speculations.
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Alfred Langdon Elwyn letter, Philadelphia, 1859, May 18 1 items

Alexander von Humboldt papers, 1816-1966 [bulk between 1816-1855] and undated.

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ALS, in French. Humboldt writes to P.H. Azais and Jules Berger de Xivrey on politics, philosophy, his expeditions, ethnology, natural history and the influence and inspiration of French thought. In 1966 Fritz Lange, of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Kommission, writes to the Duke Medical Center Library regarding the Kommission's project to locate world-wide all correspondence to and from Humboldt.
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Alexander von Humboldt papers, 1816-1966 [bulk between 1816-1855] and undated. 26 items

Alexander Russell Webb Journals, 1892

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The collection contains Webb's "Journal No. 1, From Manila to Calcutta" (142 pp.), Aug. 29-Oct. 19, 1892, and his "Journal No. 2, From Calcutta to Bombay and Agra" (144 pp.), Oct. 20-Dec. 15, 1892. This is the first journal that Webb ever wrote (Vol. 1, p. 1). His journal continued beyond Vol. 2; the last sentence was continued elsewhere, and no pages appear to be missing from this volume. A later volume or volumes contained the account of the rest of his journey which is incomplete here.

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Alexander Russell Webb Journals, 1892

Alexander Russell Webb Journals, 1892 0.2 Linear Feet 3 Items

Alexander H. Stevens papers, [New York City], 1839 and undated

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ALS. Stevens writes a letter of recommendation for a Doctor Morgan and comments upon a case of Pott's Disease.
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Alexander Fisher letter, to William Jerdan, 1821, Jan. 6

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ALS. Fisher writes of his journal, presumably of the expedition of the H.M.S. Dorothea and Trent in 1818, and of the publication of Parry's account of the same. He writes of a future expedition, aboard the H.M.S. Hecla.
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Alexander Fisher letter, to William Jerdan, 1821, Jan. 6 1 items

Alexander Campbell note, 1808, Apr. 14

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Holograph, signed. Promisory note for forty-five dollars to be paid to Joseph Basset.
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Alexander Campbell note, 1808, Apr. 14 1 items

Alexander Braun note, Berlin, to Herr Gilman, [no year], Feb. 20

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Note (ANS) inviting Gilman to an evening with the "Gesellschaft naturforscher Freunde."
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A. Leblanc letter, Paris, 1830, Oct. 4

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ALS regarding a social engagement.
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Aldo Castellani letters, Lisbon, Portugal, to Dr. David T. Smith, 1950, 1956

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Letters (ALS, TLS) relating to sample bacterial cultures sent by Castellani to Smith.
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Albrecht von Haller papers, 1763-1770 and undated.

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ALS. Malcolm Flemyng writes, in English, to Haller on medical matters. He sends a second letter, in Latin, in which he refers to Haller's Physiology and to John Locke. Haller writes, in French, to Ignazio Somis, reporting on fever in the family, malaria in Germany and other matters.
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Albrecht von Haller papers, 1763-1770 and undated. 3 items

Albert Bushnell Hart papers, 1912-1928

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TLS. Hart answers John Thomas Lee's inquiries regarding Alexander Hamilton's Itinerarium. Also included is a letter from J.R.H. Moore to Lee, in which Moore describes his copy of the book, which he wishes to sell.
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Albert Bushnell Hart papers, 1912-1928 3 items

Alban Smith Payne letter, Markham, Virginia, to Miss Southwick, 1888, Dec. 11

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ALS. Gives various details about his life, citing correspondents of note and relating his part in the "Willie Patterson affair", in which Payne knocked down Patterson, apparently a prizefighter, for attacking Usher Parsons.
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A. J. Lawyer papers, 1838-1842

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ALS to his father, congressman Thomas Lawyer (1785-1868), of Lawyersville, Schoharie Co., New York. Letters generally refer to his medical studies.
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A. J. Lawyer papers, 1838-1842 3 items

A. Howard Okie papers, 1842-1868 and undated.

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Papers include letters from Dixon Hall Lewis and, in German, from Constantine Hering; prescriptions; and notes relating to social engagements.
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A. Howard Okie papers, 1842-1868 and undated. 10 items

Agostino Bassi letter, Lodi, Italy, to "Nostra Altezza", 1851, Sep. 29

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Letter (LS) presenting his most recent work.
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A. Dubois note, Dover, to Mr. Diamond, London, 1843, July 8

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ANS. Announces his safe arrival and requests that a prescription which he had forgotten be sent.
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[Ad?] Richard papers, undated.

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2 autographed notes from unidentified French physician.
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[Ad?] Richard papers, undated. 2 items

Adolf Kussmaul manuscript, Strassburg, 1880, Nov. 14

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Autograph manuscript, signed. Describes results of a detailed examination of a patient's stomach and kidneys and prescribes a course of treatment.
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Adolf Kussmaul manuscript, Strassburg, 1880, Nov. 14 1 items

Adolf Bardeleben letter, Greifswald, Germany, 1853, Jun. 11

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Letter (ALS) concerning a post-mortem examination in a case of cancer of the brain.
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Adolf Baginsky enrollment book, Berlin, 1865-1866

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This signed document is a record of lectures attended at the Konigliche Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat, Berlin.
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Admittance cards, 1811-1880

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.Admittance, matriculation, and "Order of Lecture" cards are from a number of medical students from 1811-1880 in the University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical College, Long Island College Hospital (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Harvard University Medical School, Philadelphia School of Anatomy, New Hampshire Medical Institution, Berkshire Medical Institution, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital (London, England). They contain the autographs of the most eminent professors of the day: i.e., Samuel Gross, Franklin Bache, Benjamin Rush, Austin Flint, Samuel Jackson, S. Weir Mitchell, J. K. Mitchell, Charles D. and James A Meigs, John Barclay Biddle, et al. The St. Bartholomew's Hospital card is signed by Ludford Harvey, John P. Vicent, and John Abernethy, the latter (1764-1831) being an eminent English surgeon and founder of the Medical School of St Bartholomew's. The "Order of Lecture" cards from Jefferson Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania list curricula, faculty and their residences, schedules of lectures and texts.Admittance cards, 1850-1853, are for courses at the Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia. They include two matriculation cards for William D. Watson of Chatham County, N. C., dated Nov., 1850, and Oct., 1852, and an examination card Oct., 1852-1853, which is signed by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell as professor of Anatomy, Surgery and Physiology. Dr. Watson returned to Chatham County after his graduation. His house was destroyed during the Civil War. The portion of his medical library saved and stored in a neighboring attic eventually was placed in the historical Collection of the library of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
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Admittance cards, 1811-1880 0.2 Linear Feet (98 cards; 1 box)

Adamos manuscript, undated

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Four pages of a materia medica, of which one section bears the title "The Efforts and Vertuos: with the severall use of Venice Triache."
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Adamos manuscript, undated 1 items

Abraham Zacarías López Penha letters, 1894-1925 and undated

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Novelist and poet, editor of the modernist journal REVISTA AZUL. Born to a Jewish family in 1865 in Willemstad, Curacao, emigrated to Colombia in 1887, died in 1927 in Barranquilla, Colombia. Collection features letters to López Penha from a wide variety of Latin American and European literary and intellectual figures, many of them Jewish. Correspondents include Venezuelan journalist Nicanor Bolet Peraza; Peruvian novelists Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera and Clorinda Matto de Turner; Cuban authors Aurelia Castillo de Gonzáles and Enrique Hernandez Miyares; English novelist H. Rider Haggard; Mexican poet Amado Nervo; European Jewish activists Max Simon Nordau, Angel Pulido, and Israel Zangwill; Spanish authors Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Miguel de Unamuno; and many others. The majority of the letters are written in Spanish, a few are in English.
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Abraham Zacarías López Penha letters, 1894-1925 and undated 0.2 Linear Feet

Abraham Rand Thompson letter, Charlestown, Massachusetts, to Loammi Baldwin, Esq., Norfolk, Virginia, 1833, June 7

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ALS. Thompson refers to President Andrew Jackson's visit to the Bunker Hill monument in Boston and describes Commodore Jesse D. Elliott, the commander of the Charleston Navy Yard.
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Abigail Adams letters, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Mrs. Esther Black, Quincy, Massachusetts., 1797-1798

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6 letters (ALS) to Mrs. Black concerning Mr. and Mrs. Hall, who died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1797, and their orphaned infant daughter. Mr. Hall was treated by Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. John Redman Coxe. The infant was later inoculated for small pox by Dr. Rush. Includes transcriptions.
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Aaron Burr letter, Philadelphia, to Mrs. Burr, 1793, Dec. 24

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Letter (ALS) to Mrs. Burr informing her that Benjamin Rush, uninformed that she is already taking hemlock for her illness, advises the same. Includes transcription.
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Aaron Burr letter, Philadelphia, to Mrs. Burr, 1793, Dec. 24 4 items