Medicine
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/n83733838
Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:
Alabama Association for Young Children records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0020
Abstract
A collection containing meeting minutes, correspondence, the organization's constitution and by-laws, photographs, and other materials.
Dates:
1959 - 1987
Alabama Nurses Association records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0044
Abstract
This collection includes meeting minutes, 1913-1940, copies of the organization's newsletter, 1958-1972, miscellaneous newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and correspondence, a few rosters, and papers relating to admitting African Americans to the association, 1949-1950.
Dates:
1913-1977
Alabama State Department of Health, Division of Public Health Education, Radio Broadcast Scripts
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4088
Overview
Radio scripts from the Alabama State Department of Health, Division of Public Health Education.
Dates:
1954-1956
Alpha Epsilon Delta records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0069
Overview
The Alpha Epsilon Delta collection consists of the rules, rituals, petitions, reports, and memorabilia of the University of Alabama's charter chapter of this medical honors society.
Dates:
1926-1951
John Taylor Banks diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0109
Abstract
Diary of druggist who served in the 6th Alabama Regiment. Also includes a biographical sketch and a coroner's report signed by Banks.
Dates:
1862-1893
Birmingham Dental College minutes
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0161
Abstract
A collection of board minutes, including some organizational information.
Dates:
1893-1899
Board of Physicians and Surgeons of the Montgomery City Infirmary minutes
Collection
Identifier: W-0076
Overview
Ledger contains minutes of the Board of Physicians and Surgeons of the Montgomery City Infirmary. Through the years the members discussed issues such as visiting hours, expanding the operating room, controlling patient behavior, and finding a resident physician to work nights and therefore assist with patients in the maternity ward.
Dates:
1888 - 1896
Charity Sophia Rutland Brett commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0206
Overview
Mid-nineteenth-century combination cookbook and scrapbook that includes a "Cure for Cancer," a "New broth for the sick," and a "remedy for cholera," among others.
Dates:
1851-1856
Bryce Hospital Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0225
Overview
Various materials on the establishment and history of the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, later known as Bryce Hospital.
Dates:
1849-1991
Peter Bryce collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0226
Overview
A small miscellany of materials including Bryce's appointment as medical officer of ship "Yorkshire," clippings about Bryce, among them his obituary, and copy of his "Moral and Criminal Responsibility," 1888
Dates:
1859-1888
Buckner Confederate Hospital Medical Logs
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4339
Scope and Contents
This collection from Buckner Hospital, dating from April 1862 to April 1865, is comprised of one ledger of patients treated by the hospital’s mobile unit and one ledger of medical orders. The patient ledger is 343 pages and contains patient names, ranks, regiments, companies, complaints and applied treatments, and whether the patient was discharged or died. The medical orders ledger is 141 pages of general and specific orders concerning medical treatment at field hospitals.
The ledgers are...
Dates:
1862-04 - 1865-04
Emmett Bryan Carmichael collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0278
Overview
Approximately 300 letters sent to Emmett Carmichael by "renowned Americans," primarily from prominent physicians and university administrators from Alabama.
Dates:
unknown
Chief Surgeon's General Order No. 107
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0306
Abstract
General Order No. 107 from Chief Surgeon S. Cooper's office in Richmond, Virginia, modifies an earlier order delineating medical officers' reasons for issuing medical furloughs for soldiers.
Dates:
1862 December 17
Clarence E. and Minnie McDermaid Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2682
Overview
This collection mainly contains correspondence from Emma O. Lundberg to her nephew Clarence McDermaid planning his educational path and discussing his hobbies of music and gardening, events in her everyday life, family and friends, trips, and holidays. There is a large amount of general correspondence from Katharine Lenroot to both Minnie and Clarence consisting of holiday cards and letters discussing daily events, family members, and the illnesses of Emma Lundberg. Emma Lundberg and...
Dates:
1919 - 1975
Cobb Coal Company records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0322
Overview
This collection contains records from an Alabama coal company.
Dates:
1924-1981
Collective Protection documents
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0344
Abstract
Documents on Collective Protection probably produced by authorities in Birmingham, Alabama, and Montgomery, Alabama, shortly after the United States entered World War II. They cover all areas of collective protection such as home protection, lighting restrictions, espionage and sabotage, war gases and shelters.
Dates:
1941-1945
Dr. Edward Augustus Cook collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0354
Overview
Collection contains materials relating mainly to Dr. Edward Augustus Cook’s medical practice in Kirk’s Grove, Cherokee County, Alabama including account ledgers, daybooks, register of births and deaths, correspondence, and a photograph.
Dates:
1882 - 1920
William Preston Copeland cash books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3707
Overview
Cash books of this 19th century Eufaula, Alabama, doctor.
Dates:
1877-1900
Eyre Damer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0392
Overview
A scrapbook and accompanying materials relating to the book “With C.H. Ellis Through Central America and Panama: Quarantine Tour of Central America and Panama by Health Authorities as Guests of the United Fruit Company,” compiled and distributed by that firm.
Dates:
after 1900
Luther Fairfax Dashiell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0396
Overview
Correspondence, speeches, and writings, relating to his work as a surgeon with the 1st Regiment of Louisiana Volunteers, stationed in Tampico, Mexico, during the Mexican War.
Dates:
1844-1887; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1848
Jefferson Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0404
Abstract
This is a collection of mostly personal correspondence of Jefferson Davis and his family members, in both the United States and Europe. This collection also includes three folders of photographs and other visual materials.
Dates:
1823-1917
J. W. Dennis journal
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0427
Abstract
The accounts for a drug store in Carlowville, Dallas County, Alabama, 1867-68, including records of customers' purchases and amounts paid and owed.
Dates:
1867-1868
Thomas Duncan ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0457
Overview
Five ledgers covering the constitution, by-laws, and minutes of the Ft. Deposit Institution Reading Club (1889-1893), lecture notes, patient's accounts, and what appears to be an accountant's or executor's ledger of payments from at least one estate (1943-1956)
Dates:
1889-1926
Floyd R. Dunn papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0459
Overview
Letters and photographs from the governors of the 50 United States providing general information about each state, including each state’s government (number of state senators and representatives), the state flower, bird, and tree, and the population according to the United States Census of 1970
Dates:
1971
Francis S. Lyon papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2051
Abstract
A letter written by Francis S. Lyon, dated March 3, 1837, to M. Dickerson, Secretary of the United States Navy, and an 1858 bill of sale with Lyon's signature as witness.
Dates:
1837-1858
James R. Garber correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0557
Overview
Personal and professional letters to and from Dr. James R. Garber
Dates:
1950-1955
Wiley Hagler papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0607
Overview
Correspondence, school papers, clippings, and photographs.
Dates:
1901-1972
Hale Memorial Hospital Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3890
Overview
Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials relating to the planning and development of the Hale Memorial Hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis
Dates:
1952-1977
W. F. Hanby pension application
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0616
Overview
Application, dated 8 July 1907, filed in Jefferson County, Alabama, for a Confederate veterans' pension.
Dates:
1907 July 8
Harco Drugs records
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0626
Overview
Miscellaneous materials including newsletters, an employee handbook, memoranda, sales, publicity and marketing information, and other items.
Dates:
1974-1997
Townsend Heaton letters
Collection
Identifier: W-0091
Overview
Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Dates:
1861-1864
James A. Goble diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0574
Overview
Civil War diary of a soldier in the First Alabama Infantry who was born in New York and later lived in Auburn, Alabama, before moving to Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Dates:
1862-1863
James Austin Anderson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0078
Overview
A collection of copies of newspaper clippings and information about Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and its people.
Dates:
1898-1941
James E. Misplay Letter, 1843 August 23
File — Box 4257.004: [1006214229], Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Letter from James E. Misplay of Potosi, Missouri, to his uncle Nathan Beadle of Louiston, Illinois, about his recovery from an illness.
Dates:
1843 August 23
John F. Burnum papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-3684
Overview
Collection of published articles, including correspondence relating to, drafts of, and research for the articles, as well as newspaper and journal articles that interested Dr. Burnum, photographs of colleagues and groups, certificates of achievement, and tax information.
Dates:
after 1930
Jonathan Plimpton Green Diaries and Account Books
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4283
Overview
A loose set of travel diaries and account books kept by Dr. Jonathan Plimpton Green describing his journey to and from Valparaiso, Chile, and documenting the medical work he did while living there in the mid-nineteenth century.
Dates:
1847 - 1861
Joseph J. France and A. Sims Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4300
Overview
Two letters from Jos. (Joseph?) J. France, a nineteenth-century medical school student from Ghana at the University of Pennsylvania, to his benefactor Dr. Sims in Leopoldville in the Congo. There is also one letter from A. Sims to a Dr. Beckley that discusses France.
Dates:
1892
Letters from Emily to Catherine Newton, 1848 - 1849
File — Box 4257.004: [1006214229], Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Two letters from Emily of Liberty, Indiana, to her sister Catherine Newton in Waynesville, Ohio, telling about the family's health and welfare, particularly in the first letter about the impending death of their brother Philander. In the second letter, she talks of her other sisters and their day-to-day lives.
Dates:
1848 - 1849
Lister Hill papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0670
Abstract
Subject files, correspondence, reports, and other materials by, to, and about this Alabama senator who served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1923- 1938 and the U. S. Senate from 1938-1969.
Dates:
1921-1968
Marjorie W. Lynch papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0888
Overview
Contains health care and hospital records, along with speeches, chronological files, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
unknown
Mary C. Kelly scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: W-0036
Overview
Originally used by R. G. Betsill, a physician in Pike County, Alabama, as a record of his patients' treatments and accounts in 1855, the volume was used by Mary C. Kelly as a scrapbook in 1866.
Dates:
1855 - 1866
Mrs. George F. Brown Letter, 1895 December 18
File — Box 4257.007: [1006214232], Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
Letter fron Mrs. George F. Brown of Manhattan, Kansas, to Emma Adams of Blacksburg, Iowa, written after seeing Emma's testimonial about the Dover Electic Rings in Hearthstone. Mrs. Brown wishes to know if they will "do all that is claimed" and mentions that her husband and daughter suffer from rheumatism and she from a weak back.
Dates:
1895 December 18
Perkins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1127
Overview
This collection consists chiefly of personal and family correspondence and photographs, together with diaries, essays, literary essays, literary manuscripts, legal and financial papers, receipts, clippings, memorabilia, and printed material relating to Stephens C. Perkins, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, his wife, Caroline A. Walker Perkins, his son, Julian C. Perkins, and his children. The principal correspondent is P. W. Connor of Virginia, who describes his life in the period from 1840-1870,...
Dates:
1813-1928
Peter Brannon papers
Collection
Identifier: W-0009
Overview
Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, and other materials created by Peter A. Brannon, highlighting his career as a pharmacist, an anthropologist, and an archivist.
Dates:
1900-1966
Samuel Richmond Caffee Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-2114
Abstract
Diary (and photocopies) and other documents written by Samuel Richmond Caffee, physician and founding member of Avondale Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. There are also documents written by others about Dr. Caffee.
Dates:
1858-1977
Sarah Ann (Gayle) and William B. Crawford Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0369
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers of Sarah Ann Gayle Crawford, sister to Amelia Gayle Gorgas, and William B. Crawford.
Dates:
1833-1889
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 2008-013
Overview
Photographs of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Dates:
1960 - 1970
Mrs. Dupont Thompson biography
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0135
Abstract
This collection contains an unpublished biography of Mrs. Dupont Thompson, a board member of Partlow State School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Dates:
1951
William Crawford Gorgas Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0581
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Dates:
1869-1920
William H. Ely letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0484
Overview
Letters recounting an 1820-1821 journey to Alabama by William H. Ely, Commissioner of the Connecticut Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. The letters describe both the difficulties of his mission and the lifestyle of the early inhabitants of the state of Alabama.
Dates:
1820 - 1821