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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: A. E. Small travel diary
Creator:
Small, A. E.
Source:
Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0372
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(2 volumes)
Date: 1865
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Palinurus Antiquarian Books, 2016.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
8031080
Administrative/Biographical History
Alvan Edmond Small, M.D., of Chicago, Illinois, was born March 4th, 1811, in Wales, Lincoln County, Maine; graduated from
the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania; in 1849 was appointed to the chair of Physiology in the Homœopathic
College of Philadelphia; removed in 1856 to Chicago; and was author of a popular manual of homœopathic practice. From 1859
to1869, Small occupied the chair of Theory and Practice of Medicine at the new Hahnemann Medical Colege in Chicago, after
which he served as President of the College. Cf. Cleave's Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons,
1873, p.23.
Manuscript travel diary of Alvan Edmond Small (1811-1886) of Chicago, author of a popular manual on homeopathic, during a
month-long trip to Europe from 19 July through 22 September 1865. It includes his descriptions of encounters with and his
impressions of the homeopathic profession and institutions in Great Britain and France.
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books