Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- J. Edward Knowlton Pathology notebook
- Dates:
- circa 1841
- Extent:
- 1 unknown (1 notebook)
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Scope and content:
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This collection contains a holograph notebook written in ink and pencil; author identified on label on cover: J. Edward Knowlton of 80 East Concord St., Boston. Perhaps lecture or ward notes from a medical school or teaching hospital. Notations contain recipes, diagnosis, treatment, and course for: poisons and poisonings; cholera; dry gangrene; progressive tissue changes; tumors; carcinoma; pleurisy; anemia of the liver; syphilis; caustic alkalis; symptoms of arsenic poisoning and the stages of death; and more. Earliest date based on citation of the Reinsch method to test for the presence of arsenic in a solution.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-11-30 13:46:15 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Location of this collection:
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Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-6940