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Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.

 Subject
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Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Beckwith formula book

 Collection — Manuscript box 23 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065244463]
Identifier: 344
Scope and content

A pharmacist's formula book for coughs, colds, and remedies of all sorts.

Dates: 1871
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Beckwith formula book

Bradley Mitchell miscellany collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065186615]
Identifier: 4132
Scope and content

Trustee minutes from the Northwest School District, Genoa, N.Y., 1811-1856; student attendance record and ca.12 photographs from the Cornell Winter Short Course, ca.1914; and a manuscript recipe book with horse and human remedies, ca.1840.

Dates: 1811-[ca.1914].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Bradley Mitchell miscellany collection

Daniel Holmes papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065173829]
Identifier: 20
Scope and content

Letters, notebooks, prescriptions, receipts, certificates and reports of examinations, a will, a diploma, and other material relating to the practice of medicine in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1840-1899.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Daniel Holmes papers

Elizabeth Gorham papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 63 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065256780]
Identifier: 4019
Scope and content

Letter from E.D. Phillips to his parents and Spencer Webb, 1874, in which Phillips, an evangelist, descibes the religious situation in Nebraska. Also, three letters from George S. Webb to John S. Webb, 1865, regarding the Civil War; and a recipe book, 1843, including cures and remedies.

Dates: 1843-1874.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Elizabeth Gorham papers

Flora Williams French account books

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938503]
Identifier: 315
Abstract

Account books of various Groton, New York, firms and insurance companies, personal accounts, and prescriptions and recipes for medicines. Also, microfilm of a Groton Iron Bridge Company daybook, 1877-1885.

Dates: 1858-1926.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Flora Williams French account books

James Luckins account book

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 31924065435558]
Identifier: 793
Scope and content

Accounts of a general store in Skaneateles, New York; also a contract between Luckins and Thomas Snook concerning an agreement to receive Luckins' entire crop of teasels. Includes record of working days and hired help, and a list of medicines and cures.

Dates: 1860-1864.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / James Luckins account book

Nathaniel Tracy Sheafe papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065184073]
Identifier: 884
Scope and content Includes board, term, livery, tailor, and other bills rendered to N.T. Sheafe during his years at Dartmouth (1831-35); a series of essays and speeches (1833-37) by Sheafe on subjects as "The Habits of Mind Cultivated by the Study of History," and "The American Revolutionary Eloquence"; a series of letters (1837) from Margarette Sheafe to her brother Nathaniel commenting on the faculty, the curriculum, examinations, and the social life at Canandaigua Academy, Ontario County, New York; papers...
Dates: 1813-1876.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Nathaniel Tracy Sheafe papers

Physicians and scientists : Ben Grauer collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4782
Scope and content Consists chiefly of manuscript correspondence of various French, German, and British physicians and scientists, with some portrait engravings and sketches, biographical information, and portrait photographs. Also included are undated home remedies and prescriptions in French which appear to be of the late 18th or early 19th century; notes in French on biological processes, from the period ca. 1793-1805; notes for medical journal articles in English and French; and a legal document of 1738...
Dates: 1738-1950-(bulk 1870-1925).
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Physicians and scientists : Ben Grauer collection

Samuel Beach Bradley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 733
Scope and content Included among Bradley's papers are materials relating to his student days; notebooks of cures and remedies (1815+); a list of infants delivered (1818-1876); an alphabetically arranged listing of proper names in Dr. Bradley's diaries compiled by Grace Goodell Witty; sermons and religious experiences; fragmentary diaries; an autobiography (44 pp.); genealogical notes; a description of Eaton, New York, with recordings of weather and plant growth (1818); a manuscript speech against abolition...
Dates: 1789-1890.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel Beach Bradley papers

Valentine Seaman, MD Collection

 Collection
Identifier: US-NNCORMA-RGPPM-109
Abstract

Valentine Seaman was born in Queens County in New York in 1770 and became a doctor in 1792. Seaman is most remembered for his public health work, specifically the introduction of smallpox vaccines and his work mapping yellow fever outbreaks in New York City at the end of the 18th century. This collection is comprised of two of Seaman’s personal documents and two published writings.

Dates: 1795-1817
Found in: Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine / Valentine Seaman, MD Collection

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