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Brian Altonen, MPH, MS

Public Health, Medicine and History

1760 – Dutch-American Boerhaavism, Stahlism and Iatromechanics of the Soul

 

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            • Changes in Penmanship
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          • C
          • D-F
          • G-J
          • L-N
          • O-R
          • S
          • T-Z
          • References
        • Commentaries and Aphorisms
          • Dr. Osborn’s Disease Theories
          • Consumption
        • Thomas Sydenham (1624-1685)
        • Peter Shaw (1694-1763)
        • Daniel Turner (1667-1741)
        • Samuel Sharp (1700?-1778)
        • Robert James (1705-1776)
      • Fishkill’s Revolutionary War Historical Site
        • Open Letter to Rose Harvey, Commissioner, NYS Office of Parks
      • Revolutionary War Doctor, Part 1 (1775-1776)
        • PUBLIC NOTICE – Regarding STEPHEN THORNE’S Ledger
        • Revolutionary War Doctors, the Fishkill Staff
        • Buried Soldiers
      • Revolutionary War Doctor, Part 2 – Hospitals
        • Barracks Health
      • Revolutionary War Doctor, Part 4 – Medicines
        • Regimental Medicine Chests
        • Regimental Botanical Medicines
      • Revolutionary War Doctor, Part 5 – Disease and Illness
      • Revolutionary War Doctor, Part 6 – Pres. Washington’s Death, the End of a Generation
      • The Post-war Years
        • Nosology – the Taxonomy of Disease
        • The Early Medical Profession in New York
          • Part 1 – Physicians prior to passage of the First State Act
          • Part 2 – the local Medical Society and Legislation
          • Part 3 – The Licensure Law, 1797 to 1805
          • Part 4 — The Dutchess County Medical Society
            • John Stearns, Sept. 17th, 18[28], Origin of the Law to Incorporate Medical Societies
            • Saratoga Medical Society, 1806-1811
            • Medical College in the University of New York, 1811 Curriculum
          • Part 5 – War and Medicine, 1812-1815
            • West Point – An Early History
          • Part 6 – The Second Post-War History
          • Part 7 – A Period of Change
            • Timeline of Medical Schools
              • The First Medical Schools
              • Spheres of Influence
              • Spheres of Influence & Reformed Medicine
        • Early American Herbalism
          • Regular Doctors & Indigenous Remedies
            • Drs. Samuel Bard and David Hossack
            • John Bartram
              • John Bartram, Brief Note
            • Gilbert Imlay, 1797
            • Elgin Botanical Garden, 1801 – 1812
          • The First American Herbals
          • The”Sick-Stomach” of Great Miami, Ohio, 1810-1830
        • Early American Medical Philosophy
          • 1805 – Nationalism as the first medical specialty
          • Yellow Fever – revisited . . . again
          • Zoonoism and the Origins of Life
          • Miasma
        • Dr. Arkalus Hooper, Poughkeepsie, 1816 – Botanic Physician, Puritan
        • The First “Indian Doctors”
          • “Prince Quack Mannessah” of Gallatin, New York
        • The Trinity Years
          • Poughkeepsie Trinity
        • Early Patent Medicines in Poughkeepsie, 1800-1850
        • Healthy Waters
          • Saratoga
          • New Ballstown, Poughkeepsie
          • Water Cure Movement
        • Animalcules
        • Hudson Valley Physiognotracers – the first psychologists
          • Physiognomy 101 – Physiognotracing
          • Physiognomy 102 – Origins
          • Physiognomy 201 – Social Discourse
          • Physiognomy 202 – Health
          • Physiognomy 301 – Personality
          • Physiognomy 302 – Hudson Valley Faces
          • Physiognomy 400 – The Military Role
          • Physiognomy 500 – Readings
        • Mrs. Smith comes to Poughkeepsie
        • Divine Psychiatric Truth
        • Camp Meetings and Epidemic Chorea – a Culturally-bound Syndrome
      • 1785-1815 Biographies
        • Dr. Joseph Hamilton (1738-1806), Puritan, Physician
        • Daniel S. Dean, Oswego, John R. Todd, Fishkill, NY, and Perkin’s “Metalic Points”, 1797
        • David Hosack (1769-1835) – from Columbia to Bard
          • 1792 – Means of Restoring Life to Drowned Persons
        • Dr. Caleb Child – Medicine for the Soul, Mind, and Body
          • Child’s Upbringing and Harvard Education
          • The “Vital Spark” and “Suspended Animation”
          • Mind, Body, Coffee!
          • Energy and Matter in the Hudson Valley, A Tale of Two Books in 1806
        • Dr. James Livingston Van Kleeck, Apothecary-Physician, Secretary of First Medical Society
          • Drs. Samuel H. P. Lee and James L. Van Kleeck
        • Shadrach Ricketson, Quaker MD
          • Dutchess County, 1800
          • Education, Training and Practice
          • Domestic Medicine
          • Politics and Medicine
          • 1806, The Book
          • Foodways and Diet
          • Opium Experiments by a Quaker
          • Human Dissections and a Peptic Ulcer
          • Medical Electricity
          • The Lancet
          • 1808-1809, The Influenza Epidemic
          • 1809, Medical Climatology
          • 1815, the Small Pox Immunization Program
          • Public Health, Community Health
          • References
        • Congressman Bartow White, MD
          • Rep. Bartow White – Chronology
          • Dr. White’s Fishkill Apprentice, 1809
        • James Trivett, Merchant, Apothecary and Physician for Tivoli
        • Dr. Samuel Mitchell, Naturalist and 19th Century Phlogistian
          • 1796 – Septon and Hail
        • Isaac V. Van Voorhis, Fishkill, NY – Fort Surgeon and Physician
          • Education Background
          • Inoculations and Vaccines
          • Medicine at Fort Dearborn, 1812
          • The Anatomy of a Fort and Public Health
          • The Chicago Massacre
          • The Makings of a Hero
        • Dr. David Arnell
          • Spotted Fever
        • The Livingstons’ Manners
          • Livingstons’ Pastoralism
          • Deforestation and Global Cooling: A New Theory for Disease by Noah Webster, 1810
            • Global Warming – Part 1
          • Healthy Real Estate
          • Merino Sheep
            • Wool Laws and the Merino Sheep – 1800 to 1812
        • John W. Watkins, Esq. – Land Use and Health in Watkins Glen
          • 1778 to 1795 – The ‘First Settlers’ of Salubria
          • 1801 – Natural Resources and Health
          • The Impact of Watkin’s “Lake Fever” Diagnosis
          • 1800 – the “Lake Fever” of Seneca Lake, Tioga, NY
        • Dr. Moses Younglove, New Lebanon Springs, N.Y., 1803
        • Hunting Sherrill, M.D., the County’s First Epidemiologist and Homeopath
      • A Few Early Examples of New York Medical Geography History
        • 1803 – Rev. David Warden’s Medical Geography of Kinderhook, NY
        • 1805 – Catskill Village Fever in 1803
        • 1806 – Oneida Reservation Area
        • 1806 – Onondaga Reservation Area
        • 1806 – The Military Tract of Western New-York
        • 1807 – Clinton County, NY (Canadian Border near Lake Champlain)
        • 1809 – Dr. John Stearns, on Saratoga County and Saratoga Springs
        • 1809 – Genessee County
        • 1811 – Ontario County
        • 1830s – The County Reports
          • 1832 – Kings
          • 1833 – Saratoga
          • 1834 – Columbia
          • 1834 – Madison
          • 1834 – Onondaga
      • Caribbean and African Medicine in the Hudson Valley
        • Africa, African Americans, Slavery – a Bibliography with Links
        • “A Disease Peculiar to the Children of Negro Slaves”, 1810
        • Jamaican Fever and Malacia Africanorum – the Culturally-bound in Jamaica, 1800
        • The Southern Perspective on Disease and the Health of Slaves around 1850
        • The Southern Perspective – Part 2: Pian, Drapetomania and Dysesthesia
        • New England Influences
        • Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic Influences
          • Justice Weed or Jestis Weed (Eupatorium hyssopifolium, E. leucolepsis), 1800
        • The Midwest and Far South Creole and Hoodoo Influences
        • New York and the Hudson River Valley
          • Septon and beef, and the source of an unusual disease from the Privies
        • Slavery-related Occupational Disease Patterns
        • The Early Post-bellum Attitude about African American Health and Geography
        • Migrating Disease Patterns
      • Communal Health & Hygiene
      • Shaker Medicine
        • The Shaker Influence – the first years and yellow fever
        • Shaker Herbs
          • Shaker Herbs for the Field
        • New Lebanon Today (a photographic essay)
        • A New Mt. Lebanon – from Shakers to Sufis
      • Early Thomsonianism
        • Thomson’s Predecessors
          • More on Dr. Townsend and Poughkeepsie Thomsonianism
        • The Essentials of Thomsonianism
          • Thomson’s Recipes
          • Thomsonian Timeline
          • Thomsonian/Botanical Medicine Professional Journals
          • Thomson’s Materia Medica
          • Thomsonian Materia Medica List – Poughkeepsie Journal, 1834
        • The Formative Period
        • Reformative Period
        • The Test and the Practice
        • Thomsonian Trinity
        • Poughkeepsie Thomsonian, 1839
        • Thomas Lapham, Poughkeepsie Thomsonian
        • The Allopaths’ Rebuttal
      • Political Boundaries in Hudson Valley Medicine
      • The Fowler Estate, Wappingers Falls, New York
        • Body and Mind
          • A Partial Chronology of Body-Mind/Mind-Body Literature
        • The Octagon House
        • The Octagon House, Part 2
        • The Octagon House, Part 3 – Historical Land Use assessment
        • Phrenology
        • The Graham Diet and Water Cure
        • Andrew Jackson Davis
        • Reverend John Bovee Dods
          • Research Notes: Franz Anton Mesmer
      • New Sweden, New Finland, New Scandinavia, New Medicine
    • New France (ca. 1595 – 1750)
      • Small Pox and the Cree
      • Les Canades
      • 1602 – Gabriel Archer [New-Foundland]
      • 1602 – John Brereton (Buzzard’s Bay)
      • 1603 – Martin Pring [New-Foundland]
      • 1604-6, 1613 – Marc Lescarbot (Champlain’s Voyage)
      • 1604-7, 1613 – Champlain [New-Foundland]
      • 1605 – James Rosier [New-Foundland]
      • 1607 – William Griffith (New-Foundland)
      • 1698 – Father Louis Hennepin
      • 1751-62, Jean-Bernard Bossu
      • Jonathan Carver – 1766-1768
        • Carver’s Interpretation of Native American Health and Medicine
        • Carver and the Serpents
      • Voyageurs, Trappers, Research Notes
    • Eclectic Medicine
      • Political Tactics: Allopaths vs. Homeopaths and Eclectics at a Teaching Hospital and Medical School during the 1850s
    • Graefenberg’s Laws of Health – a Product of God, Geography, and Nature
    • The Midwest Indian Doctors
      • Indian Doctor and More, Dr. Richard Carter
        • Carter’s Materia Medica
    • Trapper and Explorer Medicine (ca. 1790-1840)
      • A Trapper-Explorer Chronology
      • Lewis and Clark (Brief Notes)
      • Montagnards & Mountainmen
      • A Materia Medica for Trappers and Explorers
        • Introduction
        • Researching Trappers
        • The References
        • Hudson’s Bay Company
          • Hudson’s Bay Company – Annotated Bibliography
        • Trappers from ca. 1800-1810
          • Trapper Medicine, 1800-1810
        • Late Trapper Medicines (ca. 1825-1850)
        • The Medicine Bag
      • Non-Trapper J. K. Townsend, ca. 1835
      • “Trapper” Osborne Russell, ca. 1845
      • S. Newhouse. The Trapper’s Guide. 1869.
      • Good Medicine for Trapping
      • Applying a Trapper’s Interpretation of Disease to “Cancer”
    • Oregon Trail (1837-1857)
      • Cholera on the Oregon Trail (Thesis)
        • Disease and the Environment
      • Indian Scout William Dain
        • Thomsonianism, Indian Doctors, Trapping and William Dain
        • Dain’s Materia Medica
      • Plants along the Trail
        • A Review of the Distribution Maps for Oregon Trail Plant Medicines
      • Water Cure
        • Charlotte Stearns Pengra, Naturalist and Hydropath
      • Research Notes, Various Diaries, Special Topics
        • 1849-Gray, Charles Glass, argonaut
        • 1849-Knox, Reuben, argonaut, physician
        • 1859-Randolph B Marcy’s Book, Research Notes
        • Overland Trail Ethnobotany
        • 1849?-Russel Crawford, to 1857(?), Iowa to Oregon
        • Medical Notes, Merrill Mattes, Great Platte River Road
        • Epidemics blooming on the Trail
    • Pacific Northwest Medicine (ca. 1820- Present)
      • Fort Vancouver Medicine-William Fraser Tolmie, 1834
      • Patent Medicines in Oregon
      • Portland, Oregon’s Medical Sentinel
      • John Kennedy Bristow (1814-1883)
        • John Kennedy Bristow, Doctor, Part 2
          • John Bristow’s Medical Education, ca. 1848-1849/50
          • Bristow’s Ledger, 1850-1851
            • Bristow’s Materia Medica
          • Bristow’s Recipe Book (Prose)
        • Part 3, The Oregon Trail Experience
          • Bristow’s Ledger, 1856-1879
          • Bristow’s Recipe Book, 1856/7-(1883?)
        • Part 4, the Oregon Doctor
        • Bristow’s “Retirement Years”, 1880-1883
        • Research Papers
          • Bristow’s Chronology Notes
          • Table of Contents for the Recipe Book
          • Recipe Book Manuscript, in raw text form
          • Ledger Notes, 1850-1883
            • Illinois Patients, 1850-1851
            • A List of Oregon Patient Families
            • Oregon Patients, A-C
            • Oregon Patients, D-G
            • Oregon Patients, H-L
            • Oregon Patients, M-P
            • Oregon Patients, R-Z
            • A Calendar of Oregon Obstetrics Patients, 1856 – 1883
            • Examples of Charges for Services Rendered
          • Blood-letting in 1878 (article from The Lancet)
          • Cancer Remedies
          • Dr. Churchill’s Cure for Consumption, History and Controversy
          • Catnip–Indian Doctor and Thomsonian
            • Additional Analyses
          • Chronological Note Cards
          • Horses and Livestock Health, Foodways
            • Alkali Intoxication of Horses
            • Plants Toxic To Livestock
      • Tuality Stop – Lightrail Station Project
    • Eclectic Medicine (Eclectics) 1845-1875
      • 1850 – Miasma Theory and Nosology
    • Eclectic Medicine (New Eclectics), 1890-1935
      • Pacific Northwest Meeting, 1896
        • Plans for a Portland Meeting
        • The Portland Meeting
        • NEMA Annual Meeting Minutes, for Portland, Oregon
        • Section Meetings
        • More on the Section Meetings
        • Needs of Medical Education
        • Closure
    • Medicine in the Battlefield
      • Military Apothecaries and Pharmacists
      • The Homoeopathic War Doctor, or Military Hospital Physician
    • Naturopathy (1895-Present)
      • Naturopathy Chronology
        • Naturopathy – Definitions and Mottos
      • Combined DC and ND Programs – 1920 – 1960
      • The Utah Council and Senate Review, 1956-7
        • Summary of Utah Study Findings, 1958
        • Summary of Utah Study Findings, Notes
          • Study Participants, Institutional Names and Addresses
        • Utah Naturopathic Physicians Survey, 1957
      • Current ND Programs in the Pacific Northwest
      • NCNM Research Documents
        • Benedict Lusts’s Home Study Course in Naturopathy, 1892 –
        • Program Comparisons
        • Non-Pacific Northwest Colleges
        • Pacific Northwest Naturopathic Colleges
        • Draft of First Catalogue
        • Integrated National College of Naturopathic Medicine
        • 1958 – 1978 catalogues
        • 1965 – catalogues
        • 1978 – catalogues
        • 1979 – 1981, the Salem, Oregon College
        • 1978 – Present, the John Bastyr College
        • School Catalogues
    • The Big Picture
      • Amazing Cures, Astonishing Beliefs
      • Dr. Madis Laboratories, Inc. – the End of an Era
      • Epilepsy, Creativity and Genius
      • Follies, Fame and Fortune in the Hudson Valley
      • My Library
      • Religion and the Mind Body Relationship – a History
      • The “Mind” in Mindbody
      • The Rediscovery of Acupuncture
      • The Zen of a Coin – a philosophy for health
      • Why Should I Immunize my Child?
      • “Quacks abound like locusts in Egypt”
        • Moses and a New Generation of Doctors
        • Eclectic Medical School Attendance, 1845-1875
      • Reflections based on my review of the pre-1900 Disease and Medical Maps
      • A History of Childhood Immunization Programs
      • Poverty and Health
      • The Tryptophan Tragedy, 1989-1990 (reviewed in 2003)
      • Urbanization and Health
      • The Impact of Culture on Disease, Destiny and “the Cure”
      • The Cannabis Years
        • The Best Medicine – Part 1
        • The Best Medicine – Part 2
        • The Best Medicine – Part 3
        • The Best Medicine – Endnotes (References cited in text)
        • Alternative Medicines – Part 1
    • Missionalia
      • Medicine Men and the Diocese of Quebec Missions, ca. 1825
      • Aletta – The Mohawk-Dutch Convert
  • Early Western Travels, 1810-1850
  • Historical Buildings and Sites
    • Bannerman’s (Pollepel or Polopel) Island in or around 1959 (up to 1967)
    • NEW! Saving A Small Piece of Local History
    • “The James Way” of Raising Turkeys
    • Lime Kiln in Sharon, Ct.
    • Other Historical Buildings
    • Greek Revival Buildings in the Valley
    • Balanced Rock, New Salem, NY
    • The ‘B’ in Beacon
    • Prohibition in the Hudson Valley – A Wine Cellar
    • James Reuel Smith (1845-1935). Springs and Wells of Manhattan and the Bronx, 1897-1901
      • Manhattan
      • The Bronx
  • Then and Now
    • 1626 – The Controversies Regarding “Luke the Physician”
    • 1801 – Atlantis Revisited
    • 1822 – James Morss Churchill and Acupuncture
    • 1824 – The Prayers of Alexander von Prince Hohenlohe
    • 1857 – Homoeopathy and the Power of Healing
    • 1858 – Shekomeko
    • African Methodist Episcopal [AME] Zion Cemetery
    • Asthma and the Urban Indian
    • Potential Biotechnological Applications of Pacific Northwest Flora 1988
    • Chicle: The History of Chewing Gum
    • The Biogeography of Wildfires: the Tillamook Burns as Examples
  • GENEALOGY-BIOGRAPHY
    • Dutchess County Historical Society Index Table (Excel Form) [for DOWNLOAD]
    • Recounts of Medical History
    • Medical Topography Readings – archives.org
    • Historical Medicine Bibliography
  • Readings
    • Data Miscellany
    • Medical Surnames Index (to this site)
    • Projects Examples

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