Folk, historical, and patent medicine
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: This includes collections and materials in Special Collections that have information on patent medicines, folk or traditional medicine, the history of the medical practices, family papers or business records relating to medicine, or other papers that pertain to aspects of medicine.Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Edward L. Stratton Diary,
The Edward L. Stratton Diary was written by a Civil War soldier who was in the 122nd Company of Pennsylvania, and it covers military action, army medicine, battle wounds, and hospital life and work.
Western Lunatic Asylum [Staunton, Virginia] Collection
The Western Lunatic Asylum Collection includes correspondence and a final year report relating to the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, Virginia, dating from 1841 to 1903.
Isaac White Letters
Dr. John M. Williams Ledger
Ledger contains the accounting records of Dr. John M. Williams, a physician practicing in Rocky Mount, Virginia. Entries date from 1878 to 1882.
Daniel E. Wright Papers
Collection contains materials dealing with the Panama Canal, the public health activities of the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Nations Public Health Service, and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Also includes correspondence to and from Daniel E. Wright while a colonel on the staff of Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell and at the U.S. Middle Eastern Command Headquarters in Cairo, as well as photographs from his travels.