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Contains 11 Results:

Medical Notes from Hosack's Lectures, 1818-1819

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection:

This collection consists of materials author Patricia Cornwell collected as part of her extensive research for her publications. The collection primarily contains notebooks, pamphlets, and newspaper articles about the history and culture of 18th and 19th-century medicine and crime. Additionally, there are primary source documents about the abolitionist movement, suffragettes, Prince Albert Victor, and other 19th-century celebrities, education, and literature.

Dates: 1818-1819

Hosack's Practice, volume 2, circa 1824

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note

This handwritten notebook begins with Lecture XLII, containing notes on the rectos and additional comments on some of the versos.

Dates: circa 1824

Hosack's Practice, volume 3, circa 1824-1827

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note

This notebook begins with Lecture LXL and ends on folio 111. Later entries are in a different hand, and are written on both recto and verso sides.

Dates: circa 1824-1827

Inquest into Lunacy, circa 1715

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note

This document is in Latin, and comes with a typed translation. It is a later copy of an inquest held in Paisley, Scotland on September 21, 1706, to settle the future of John Huntar who was found to be mentally unsound, simple, and frenzied. His nearest relative, James Huntar, was given guardianship of John.

Dates: circa 1715

New York State Lunacy Pamphlet, 1894

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note This first-edition pamphlet is fully entitled Current Medical Opinion of the Attitude of the New York State Commission in Lunacy. It features letters and excerpts from several medical publications, including New York Medical Record, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, British Medical Journal, New York Medical Journal, and...
Dates: 1894

Scientific Articles, 1863 May 7-June 18

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note These articles have been removed from a bound collection of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 12. The articles include: On the Structure of the so-called Apolar, Unipolar, and Bipolar Nerve-cells of the Frog; On the Belts of Jupiter, page 575; Notes of Researches on the Polyammonias, No. XXIII-Hydrazobenzol, and new Compound isomeric with Benzidine, page 576; Note on the Composition of...
Dates: 1863 May 7-June 18

Bellevue Hospital Medical College Announcements and Catalogues, 1861-1900

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5-14
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note

The title of this publication changed frequently over the years, and there are some scattered issues missing throughout this date range.

Dates: 1861-1900

Charles Manson Trial Documents, 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents Note

The documents in this folder include Charles M. Manson, petitioner, v. California, respondent : opposition to petition for writ of certiorari : brief of respondent in opposition, 38 pages, and the California Court of Appeals’ opinion, 80 pages, from 132 California Reporter. Two pages of handwritten notes have been placed within a Mylar sleeve.

Dates: 1976

South Carolina Slave Trade Ledger, 1764-1766

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents Note

This ledger, kept by the Hogg & Clayton business, records purchases of various food, dry goods, and other sundries. Among these items are entries about the buying, transporting, and selling of enslaved individuals, including one called a “Negroe Adventure to Wilmington…” in July 1765, and a summation of their profits in July 1766.

Dates: 1764-1766

Anti-Slavery Broadside, 1834 June 26

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: III
Scope and Contents Note

This small broadside announces that Mr. G. Thompson will give two lectures against slavery before leaving for an anti-slavery mission to the United States of America.

Dates: 1834 June 26

Women Agitators Notebooks, circa 1914

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents Note

Two leather notebooks kept by a police officer in Leeds containing photographs and information about 90 women suffragettes and one man. The second volume contains an alphabetical index of names.

Dates: circa 1914