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Medicine -- Practice

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Asahel Clapp diary

 Collection
Identifier: L032
Scope and Contents The collection contains a photostat diary of Asahel Clapp ranging from 1819 to 1862. Topics covered in his diary include geology, botany, and local community news. The collection also includes newspaper clipping excerpts from "A Hoosier Listening Post" by Kate Milner Rabb (1930–1931).
Dates: 1819-1862

Chittenden family collection

 Collection
Identifier: L031
Scope and Contents The collection contains the correspondence between George F. and Amanda Chittenden during their engagement and during the U.S. Civil War. The letters written during the Civil War discuss health conditions, army life, the siege of Vicksburg, life and politics in Indiana, and Confederate prisoners at Camp Morton. Also included are letters to Amanda Chittenden from family members and to George Chittenden regarding Republican politics, his work with the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and other...
Dates: 1837-1913

Dr. Graham N. Fitch account books and ledgers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: V267
Scope and Contents This collection includes Dr. Graham N. Fitch's Logansport, Indiana real estate account book during 1837-1871, a personal account book from 1872 and his physician's account book during 1869 and 1873-1884.
Dates: 1837-1884

J. S. Haldeman letter

 Collection — Folder S0566
Identifier: S0566
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a typed copy of a letter from J. S. Haldeman from Thorntown, IN to his cousin Sarah Spoon, in Canton, Illinois on December 3, 1838. He states that he is studying medicine and is interested in settling near her to practice, if the location, price of land, and health of the place is suitable. He compliments her letter writing as very good for someone her age, 13 or 14, as he remembers, and he praises the value of education.
Dates: 1838/12/03

"Ten Commandments of Medical Ethics" broadside

 Collection — Folder OBC133
Identifier: OBC133

Willis B. Stewart papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2452
Scope and Contents This collection contains handwritten speeches and other writings by Dr. Willis B. Stewart ranging from 1899 to 1927 and undated. Topics include good health practices, specific diseases, sociology, eugenics, ethics and citizenship. Titles include "Grip," "Prescriptions," "Some Socialogical Observations," "A Study of Secondary Sex Characteristics," Miscegenation, or Race Decadence," "Law and Crime," and "The Minister and the Sick."...
Dates: 1899-1927, undated