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Dr. Ferdinand’s Remedy for Consumption [78]
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Central Mexico Disease Geography (ca. 1880)
Bowditch’s Consumption Maps (1862)
Dr. Robert C. Hamill – the Geography of Erysipelas in Chicago, Illinois (1867)
Hamill’s View on Epidemics – Research Notes
Enteric Fever Epidemics in 1873
John C. Peters and the Asiatic Cholera
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1885 – Alfred E. Stille, M.D. – Cholera, Vibrio, and Quarantine
1856 – 1873, Some of the Earliest Timed Series Maps
1960 – Pyle’s Disease Diffusion and Migration Patterns
Other Notes – Jaques Mays, Russian geography
Pyle’s Maps – More Notes
Alfred Haviland – 1875 (2ed. 1893) – Cancer in Great Britain
Robert Lawson’s Pandemic Waves Theory and the World Isoclines Map – ca. 1860-1875
Tripe’s Scarlatina Waves of 1874
Robert William Felkin – 1889 – Tropical Diseases
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1763 – the “Extraordinary Disease” at Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket
1798 (1799) – Charles Caldwell’s Theory
1799 – Benjamin Rush’s Theory
1799 – Samuel Anderson and the Mystery of Yellow Fever in Curaçoa and On Board
1806 – The Next War – Yellow Fever in Upstate New York and Matthew Brown
The Yellow Fever Years – 1792 to 1800
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Zoonosis and Russian Medical Geography
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1851 – 1917, Cattle Drives and Texas Fever
Intro-Animate Pathology – Animalcules, Linnaeus, and Erasmus Darwinism – 1830
Russian Medical Geography – Research Notes, References, etc.
Historical Medical Geography
1717 – Lancisi – On the Noxious Effluvium of Marshes
1720 – J.C. Homann – Medicinae Cum Geosophia Nexu, or The Medical-Geography Connection
1786 – Benjamin Rush – An early rendering of Sequent Occupancy
1799 – James Tilton – Military Medicine and his Observations on Yellow Fever
1799 – Samuel Mitchell – An Outline on Medical Geography
1802 – Dr. Caldwell versus Dr. Barton – Soil and Goitre
1802 – Dr. Caldwell’s Oration on Endemic Disease Patterns
1806 – Medical Naturalist Jean Baptiste Leblond (1747-1815), Climate Zones, and Yellow Fever
1807 – Medical Topography of Ohio, by Gideon Forsyth, Wheeling
1808 – May’s Lick, Kentucky – Daniel Drake
1809 – Marietta, Ohio – Statistical Epidemiology
1814 – The Latitude of Pestilence
1821 – Hennen’s Medical Topography
1832 – Henry Marshall’s Disease Geography article
1832 – Lewis Beck’s Report on Cholera in Canada and New York – an early example of hierarchical diffusion modeling and interpretation
1847 – Dr. Carl Friedrich Canstatt’s Handbuch der medicinischen Klinik
1852 – William Farr’s Elevation and Cholera paper
1854-7 — More on Sir Henry W. Acland’s ‘Health, Work and Play’
1856 – Alexander Keith Johnston’s May 5th Presentation to the Epidemiological Society of London
1861 – Robert Lawson’s Pandemic Waves Theory – c1860-1890
1863 – William Aitken, on William Farr’s 1850s Disease Nosology
1866 – Richard E. Haughton’s “On the Changes of Types of Diseases”
1878 – James Little – On the Geographic Distribution of Zymosis and Disease
1879 – Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw: from Zymosis to the Bacterial Theory of Disease
1893 – Mexico and its Diseases, Part 2
Historical Medical Geography Publication Statistics, c1600-1915
Alchemy – the Geography of Hermeneutics
More Historical Disease Maps
1865-1875 — Cancer and its Geographic Causes
1866 – Samuel Haughton – Cholera in Ireland (Article)
1872 – William Aitken (book)
1874 – Sydney H. Carney’s Series of Medical Charts, Phthisis
1884 – W. J. Simpson (article)
1886 – John S. Billings (article)
1889 – Robert William Felkin – “On the Geographical Distribution of some Tropical Diseases”
1889 – Rudolph Matas – Dengue (Chapter from Book)
1890 – The 1890 Census Disease Maps
1890 – The Typhoid Fever Epidemic of Cumberland, Maryland, 1889
1891 – Zymotics in Washington DC
1901-1902 – Brockhaus’ Infektionskrankheiten Im Deutschen Reiche, Part 1
More Historical Disease Philosophy
Aitken’s Three forms of Miasma, ca. 1863
Life and Death, or How to Secure Health and Avoid Sickness (a Life Insurance Pamphlet, 1868)
The History of Diseases, Climate and Actuarial Work
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Thomas Grimshaw – On Zymotic and Preventible Diseases (in Ireland)
Lawson’s Law of Pandemics
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Population Health Surveillance
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Topics Reviewed and Mapped
Grid mapping health and disease in the United States
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429.83 – Takot subo or “Broken Heart Syndrome”
528.1 – Noma
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Population Health Spatial Analysis – Bibliography
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The 100 Million Patients Controversy
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Cultural Metrics – Part 3 Applications
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The 1989 World Health Organization Report
Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases, Part I
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The Benzene Theory
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FINAL REPORT for Grant Funded Research [2002]
Spatial Analysis of Exposure
Theissen Polygon Analysis
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Points-Census Block-Spider Analysis
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Hexagonal Grid Analysis
DOWNLOAD Hexagonal Cells Excel Spreadsheet
Description of Grid Mapping Technique Developed
Gridcells: a Sequential Analysis of Spatial Features
Case-by-Case Analysis
Natural Sciences
Botany – PLANTAE
Biotechnological Potentials of Pacific Northwest Flora and their Natural Products
PLANTAE: The Evolution of Plant Chemicals
A BRIEF LOOK AT THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF PLANT MEDICINES
THE ECOLOGY OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
SECONDARY NATURAL PRODUCTS
BASIC PLANT CHEMISTRY
PHYTOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION
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CO-EVOLUTION: MAN & PLANTS
PLANTAE: The Ethnobotany Tables
Introduction to Ethnobotany Tables
A Simplified Overview of Plant Uses?
All Plants
All Plants and Major Chemical Transformations
The Lower Taxa
The Upper Taxa
Dicotyledonae (Magnoliopsida)
Monocotyledonae (Liliopsida)
History of Medicine
COPYRIGHT and Other Notes for Researchers
Hudson Valley Medical History
1847 – The Hudson Valley
A Chronology of Homoeopathy in the Hudson Valley
A Chronology of Poughkeepsie Life and Medicine
First Impressions
A History of Discovering New World Plants
Post-Colonial United States Medicine and Plants – Dr. Samuel Mitchell
Explorers and Plants
Explorers and Plants, Part 2, Assigning Meaning
Explorers and Plants, Part 3, Food and Medicine
1614-1630 – Captain John Smith
1630 – Rev. Francis Higgeson [New England]
1632 – William Wood [New England]
1673 – Josselyn’s Journey
1733 – William Byrd [Virginia-North Carolina]
1734 – John Tennant (Virginia)
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Rising Spirits
First Maps – New Netherlands
Dutch Regionalism in New York
Applying Dutch Regionalism
Hudson Valley Multiculturalism – 1
Early Cults and Mystics
Teutonicus (Research Notes)
Hudson Valley Multiculturalism – 2
Nun’s Hospital, New France
Moravian-Indian Medicine
The Story of the Moravians
From Missions and Revivals, to a New Philosophy of Medicine
Georg Loskiel: Spiritualist, Storyteller, Historian, Scientist, Physician
Other Historical Renderings
Shekomeko and Tschoop
Mahican Medicine
Mahican Medicine, Part 2
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Community Health in Transition
Epidemiological Transition
Rauch, Tschoop and Zinzendorf
The Baptisms
Brethren John’s Health and Well-being
Brother John’s Mysterious Illness
Rituals and Sainthood
Saintly Practices
John and the Saints
Exemplary Life
Eventful Life, Untimely Death
Conversion
Sacrifice
A Need for Proof
Prayers and Healing
Spiritual Healing Processes
News Item
The Evidence
Stage 1 – Personal Direction and Change
Stage 2 – Immediate and Local Social Change
Stage 3 – Regional and National Change
Stage 4 – Global, Universal Change
Site Visits
March 11, 2011 Visit
March 18, 2011
Colonel Barent Van Kleeck
Topography, Climate and Exercise
Natural Theology and the French Huguenots
Science and the Huguenots
Jardin du Plantes (Jardin du Roi)
The Huguenot Migration
Huguenot Health — French Culture and Medicine
French Huguenots — From Castles to Cuisines
Isaac Marks – the First Hudson Valley ‘Mohel’ and Jewish Doctor
The Migration of Jewish Culture
Jewish Philosophy, Morality and Health
Jewish Medical Contributions
The Hygiene and Medicine of the Talmud, a University of Texas Presentation, 1901
Jewish Tradition and Medicine
“New Age” Judaism & Colonial Medicine
Dr. Isaac Marks of Dutchess County
“Isaac Marks” — Genealogy Notes
Isaac Marks documents, links
Colonial Gardens
Colonial Garden Plants, A Chronology – Pre-1700
Colonial Gardens, Part 2 – 1700s
Colonial Herbalism (ca. 1450-1750)
Hudson Valley Botanists and Medical Botany – 1720 to 1775
Cadwallader Colden
Introduction
A Chronology
The Coldens’ Natural Philosophy
Influence with Respect
Cadwallader Colden – Biographies
Colden Family Genealogy
Edinburgh Life
Edinburgh, Part 2
Edinburgh, Part 3 – the Books
Grotius
Edinburgh, Part 4 – A Postscript
The Art of Medicine
Throat Distemper in Kingston, 1735
Coldingham Coldengham
New York Newtonianism
Newtonianism, Part 2
Cadwallader Colden’s Treatise – Part 1
Cadwallader Colden’s Treatise – Part 2
Influences Upon Linne
Species Plantarum, 1764
Snakebite remedies, Linnaeus and Colden
Linnaean Dissertations
Influences upon Science
Pehr Kalm, 1750, 1756
Influences upon Medicine
Cornelius Osborn, Fishkill
Johann David Schoepf, 1787
Ethnopharmacy and Colden
Constantine Rafinesque
Cadwallader Colden References
Plantae Coldenghamiae – Part I (Translation Project)
Plantae Coldenghamiae – Part II (Translation Project)
Jane Colden (1724-1766)
Jane Colden – Biographies
Article – Gardenia
The Jenny Colden-Linnaeus Story
Post-humous Honors, Part 1
Jenny’s Discoveries
Jane’s Plant List (in order by page, from her Manuscript)
Jane’s Plants in the Field
Introduced Species
Rare, Endangered or Simply Hard-to-find Species
Jane’s Plant Numerology
The Combined Success of the Coldens
The Coldens’ Flora – A Taxonomic Review
Asters
Fibraurea or Coptis?
Validating the Identifications
Four Generations: from Herbalism to Medical Botany
The Coldens’ Fossils
Dr. Cornelius Osborn (1722-1782)
Osborn’s Home and Farm Setting
The Pharmacopoeia
Iatrochemist, Part 1: Philosophy
Iatrochemist, Part 2: The Lab Practice
Phlogiston and Iron
Pyrolatry Comes to the Valley
Chirurgery and the Surgeon
Public Health in Early Colonial Fishkill
Place, Time, Settlements and Disease
Osborn/Colden’s Medical Geography
Buchan’s Weather, Water, and Disease
Brown’s Brunonianism
The Sydenham Approach
Other Authors – More Readings on Colonial Medical Philosophy
1648-1657, Harvard Alchemist George Starkey
1740 – 1760 – Borden’s Vitalism [Closest to Osborn’s Philosophy]
1740s and later – An Early Dutch Nature Cure
1760 – 1778, Benjamin Rush, Boerhaavism and other events
1760 – Dutch-American Boerhaavism, Stahlism and Iatromechanics of the Soul
1770 – William Cullen
1780 – More on Brunonianism
1796 – Hufeland and Hahnemann
1800 – Roeschlaub – Theory of Excitement, Broussais – Theory of Heat
Phytognomonics or Doctrine of Signatures
MANUSCRIPT (text only, in text form, no edits, symbols, or footnotes)
Osborn’s Multiculturalism
Osborn’s Recipes [NEW! COMMENTARIES ADDED!]
The Manuscript or Vade Mecum [pp#]
Cover, Title Page, Introduction [pp. cover,1,2]
Consumption, Rx 1-6 [3-7]
Consumption [pp. 8-11]
Dia Drink Bear [12-13]
Spitting of Blood, Decay State [14-16]
Commentary, Instructions [17-22]
Dropsy [23-26]
Diuretics for Dropsy [27-30]
Jaundice [31-33]
Pleurisy [34-38]
Pleurisy Notes
Bilious Colic [39-41]
Piles (hemorrhoids) [42-45]
Rheumatism [46-50]
Dysentery [51-53]
Common Colic [54]
Gravel [55-56]
St. Anthony’s Fire (Erysipelas) [57-58]
Dr. Osborn and Cancer
Ye Fever, an Ague, ye Cure [59-60]
The Fevers, Miasma and Effluvia
3rd Day Agues and ye Cure [61]
Continual Fever [62-64]
The Whites or Fluor Albes [65]
Feminine Remedies
Overflowing of the Terms [67]
Stoppage of the Terms [68-72]
For the High Stericks and the Cure (Hysteria) [73]
For the Barring Down of ye Matrix [74-75]
Lying-in or Delivery [76]
Green Purges [77]
Dr. Ferdinand’s Remedy for Consumption [78]
Changes in Penmanship
Dr. Hill’s Rx for the Pleurisy [79]
The Epilepticks [80]
End Page, Back Cover [82, cover]
Osborn’s Materia Medica
Introduction
A-B
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)
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