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Cholera Epidemics in the 19th Century The Great Plague of London, 1665 The Boston Smallpox Epidemic, 1721 “Pestilence” and the Printed Books of the Late 15th Century Spanish Influenza in North America, 1918–1919 Tropical Diseases and the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1904–1914 Tuberculosis in Europe and North America, 1800–1922 The Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia, 1793
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Lyman Spalding PapersLyman Spalding (MD 1797, Harvard University) practiced medicine in New Hampshire and New York in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was noted for his work in smallpox vaccination, the treatment of yellow fever, and the study of anatomy. Spalding taught chemistry at Dartmouth Medical School and Fairfield Medical School for several years. He founded the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. The full collection at the Countway Library contains letters, lecture notes, and several manuscripts for lectures on human anatomy, surgery, and other subjects. A casebook includes the diagnosis and treatment of Spalding’s medical and surgical cases. In addition, the collection contains manuscripts for essays on meteorites, meteorology, and fevers; an 1813 address on the history of medicine; and other documents, such as admission cards to lectures. The letters, one of which is noted below, are principally to Spalding from other physicians, including Edward Jenner; the letters discuss vaccination and other matters.
Materials Digitized for the Contagion CollectionLetter from Edward Jenner, Nov. 12, 1805. H MS c2.2. Tickets to a lecture given by Aaron Dexter, 1795–1796. H MS c2.5. Tickets to a lecture given by Alexander Ramsey, [n.d.]. H MS c2.5. Ticket to a lecture given by Benjamin Rush, 1809. H MS c2.5. Ticket to a lecture given by John Warren, 1796. H MS c2.5. Ticket to a lecture given by Benjamin Waterhouse, 1795. H MS c2.5. Draft of a letter to Benjamin Waterhouse, 1800. B MS c2.1. Letter from Luther Jewett, Apr. 30, 1807. B MS c2.2. Letter from Samuel Foster, Nov. 17, 1810. B MS c2.2. “Cases of Typhus Fever…from 1817 to [1818],” 1817–1818. B MS c2.4. Influenza, [n.d.]. B MS c2.4. Vaccination, [1818?]. B MS c2.4. Bill of mortality for Portsmouth, N.H. for A.D. 1811, 1811. B MS c2.4. “Cases of Supposed Incipient Phthisis Pulmonalis, Cured by Sulphate of Copper & Ipecacuanha,” 1817–1818. B MS c2.4. “George McThay: Malignant Fever,” [n.d.]. B MS c2.4. “Reflections on the Kine Pock,” Apr. 1818. B MS c2.4. Additional Contagion ResourcesGeneral Materials: Vaccination Full Collection CitationPapers of Lyman Spalding, 1793–1820 (inclusive). H MS c2. Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Mass. Electronic Finding AidNo extended electronic finding aid is available. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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