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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: J. Murray Willis lecture notes
Creator:
Willis , J. Murray
Source:
Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0725
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 notebook)
Date: 1879
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access
special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on
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Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in
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[Identification of item], J. Murray Willis Lecture Notes (Collection 725). Louise M.
Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Palinurus from the Walter Jarvis Barlow History of Medicine Collection Fund,
2019.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9022022
Administrative/Biographical History
J. Murray Willis, M.D. graduated in 1877 from the Medical College of Maine, in Brunswick,
then practised as a physician in Elliot, Maine.
"A manuscript notebook of lecture notes. Based upon the title these lecture notes appear
late - in the decade of extinction - of the Thomsonian wave of botanical medicine.
Nonetheless, the lecture notes offered here provide an insight into the ambitious nature of
Thomsonian "cures" and their longevity within the medical community. The lecture notes begin
with by introducing what can only be described as severe diseases of the brain, heart, and
then "Bright's Disease". This is followed by pages of less threatening ailments and their
respective cures and applications. Finally there is a general section given over to
treatment methodology that is accompanied by remarks on specific diseases. Such lecture
records are rare survivals. Dr Willis has signed the endpaper. See Haller, The People's
Doctors." -- Antiquarian bookseller's description.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Palinurus Antiquarian Books