Boston Medical Library Miscellany. B MS misc.

This fragment of a manuscript letter of Samuel Hahnemann concerns the homeopathic prevention and treatment of cholera using powder of copper.

In his will, Hingham physician Ezekiel Hersey bequeathed £1,000 to the Harvard Corporation to fund a professorship in anatomy and physic [physiology]. Although it took some years for the Corporation to establish a program of medical study, in…

Dr. J. Collins Warren was one of the foremost proponents of Joseph Lister's antiseptic procedures during surgical operations. In this letter, written near the end of his life, he recalls his meeting with Lister in 1869 and his first personal…

A recommendation for surgical nurse Mrs. Lagan, who served with Nightingale in Crimea.

An order for Christmas and New Years cards.

Bill for medical services to Thomas Foxcroft, including charge for "his negro man, Cambridge."