Brian Altonen, MPH, MS

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• ** Traditional CV/Resume **
  • Project List (2015-2022)
  • A Fishkill Town Board Epitaph for Revolutionary War Soldiers
  • Spatial Analytics Coding
• CURRICULUM VITA
  • Employment Status and History
  • Institutional Research
  • Volunteer Activities
  • Academia
  • Medical Historian
  • West Nile Ecology (Poster Session at 2006 ESRI Healthy GIS Conference, Denver, Co.)
  • Grid Economics & Demographics
  • Surveillance Applications for a Digital Video-producing 3D-Mapping Tool
    • HIT/GIS Policy, HIT/GIS Program and a New Survey – Applications of GIS to Managed Care (and other Health Insurance programs)
    • Big Data and Health
  • Research Gate
  • Research Gate – Projects List
  • Historic & Modern Disease Maps on this Site (List & Links)
  • Pinterest.com
  • Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Statement
• BIOSTATISTICS
  • GIS IN THE WORKPLACE – A SURVEY
  • Risk Management & Surveillance
  • Flowcharts of PVP Review
  • Quality Assurance
    • Population Health and Disease Monitoring: the “Elephant” of Public Health
      • The ‘Elephant’ and the flow of information
      • Part 1 – Measuring People and Health
      • Part 2 – A Study of Asthma Risk and Preventive Care
      • Part 3 – Defining and Representing Research Populations
      • Part 4 – Making the Best Use of your Data Sources
      • Part 5 – HEDIS Measures
      • Part 6 – Non-HEDIS Measures
      • Part 7 – HEDIS Evaluations
      • Part 8 – PIPs and QIAs
      • Part 9 – Traditional Baseline Measures
      • Part 10 – New Baseline Measures
      • Part 11 – Balancing your Evaluations with HP 2010 and other tools used to define New Indicators
      • Part 12 – Examples of Applications
      • Part 13 – Developing the Final Report
    • Obtaining The Perfect Score on your QIA or PIP Report
  • Grounded Theory
    • Combined Qualitative-Quantitative Research Methods
      • Older Population Health: Evaluating “Required” versus “Luxury” Out-of-Pocket OTC Expenses
    • Combined Qualitative-Quantitative Research Methods – Part 2
    • Examples of Applications – Herbal Medicine Use and Toxicity
    • Public Health Research Questions Answered (a 3D mapping application)
  • Predictive Modeling Applications for Small Programs
  • SAS, SPSS, Stata, S+, etc.
  • Statistical Innovations
    • HEXAGONS
    • PYRAMIDS
    • GRIDS
  • WMA Declaration of Helsinki
• Medical Anthropology
  • Culturally-bound Syndromes, Part II
    • Exorcism – the Devil and the Cure
  • Hudson Valley Plant Heritage
    • Hudson Valley Folklore, Medicine and Plants
      • A Cure for the Dropsys, John Lawson, ca. 1820-5
      • Erasmus and the Spider Story
  • Medicine (Prayer) Stick
    • A Medicine or Prayer Stick, Part 2 (Old Photos)
    • A Medicine or Prayer Stick, Part 3
    • A Comparable Prayer Stick
  • Eastman’s Letter – Sacajawea’s Grave
    • Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) – A Brief Biography
  • A Munsee-Mohecan Sacred Site in Hudson Valley, New York
  • The Rights of the Shaman
  • Muhammad
• Medical Geography and Disease Surveillance
  • Applying New Methods with GIS
    • Sequent Occupancy – its history and utilization
    • Space-Time Behaviors in Medical Geography – some basic concepts from the historical maps
    • Space-Time Behavior in Contemporary Disease Patterns and Models
    • The Small Pox Issue – its history through articles and maps
  • More on the Method for Establishing Medical GIS in Managed Care
  • Historical Disease Maps
    • A History of Disease Geography, Theory, and Maps
      • Early 1900s Disease Mapping
      • Modern Medical Cartography
      • Contemporary Mapping of Public Health and Medicine
    • Valentine Seaman, 1797 (1804) – the Black Plague or Yellow Fever of New York City
    • A Disease Mist Hangs Over Bethnal Green, 1847, 1848-9
    • Friedrich Schnurrer’s ‘Charte Uber die geographische Ausbreitung der Krankheiten’ (1827)
      • Friedrich Schnurrer’s ‘Charte . . . Krankheiten’ – Part 2
    • Scouttetten and the Cholera Diffusion Process in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1831
    • Heinrich Berghaus’s ‘Planiglob . . . der vornehmsten Krankheiten’ (1848)
    • John Lea and the Geology of Cholera (1850)
    • Adolph Muhry’s Global Disease Map (1856)
    • Daniel Drake – Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley,1844 (1850, 15 maps)
    • Sir Henry W. Acland – ‘Health, Work and Play’ in Oxford, 1854-7
    • Alexander Keith Johnston – “Health & Disease” in North America
    • Alexander Keith Johnston’s Map of World Diseases – A Detailed Review (1856)
    • William Aitken’s Realms of Men – Hygiology and Disease (1872)
    • Charles Denison – Phthisis, Climate and Mountain Air (1887)
    • Charles Denison – Rocky Mountain Health Resorts (1877, 1881)
    • Four Prussian Diseases (ca. 1880)
    • 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
      • 1875 – John C. Peters’ Disease Maps
      • 1873 – A. B. Judson and the Mississippi Valley
      • 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
    • Yellow Fever
      • 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
    • Asiatic Cholera
    • Military Medical Geography
      • 1854 – Crimean War
        • 1853-6, Sanitation and Gangrene
      • 1861-5 – U.S. Civil War
    • Zoonosis and Russian Medical Geography
      • 1797 – Animal Ecology & Livestock Disease
      • 1843 – 1892, the Contagious Lung Plague of Cattle
      • 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
    • Zymotic Disease (Readings)
      • Diphtheria
      • Puerperal Fever
      • Scarlet Fever
    • Alfred Hudson – On Liability to Disease
    • Thomas Grimshaw – On Zymotic and Preventible Diseases (in Ireland)
    • Lawson’s Law of Pandemics
  • More Medical Geography Summary Articles, ca. 1850 – 1950s
    • 1865 – 1870 – Mapping Public Health in Manhattan
      • Debauchery and Trysts, 1867 – 1870
  • The Diagnosis of James River Ringworm – an example of Historical Disease Mapping & Predictive Modeling
  • Population Health Profiles – Seeing the Elephant, Part 2
    • Part I – A New Method
    • Part II – Examples of Applications
    • Part III – Environmental Health and Marketplace Applications
    • Part IV – Population Health Applications
      • Preface
      • Introduction: Why use this Methodology?
      • Population Age Groupings
      • The “Golden Rule” for Planning Population Health-related Intervention Programs
      • Evaluations based only on Prevalence – Stages in Life
      • Cumulative Temporal Patterns
      • ICDs related to Newborns and Young Children
      • Mid- to Late Childhood ICDs
      • Teenage to Young Adulthood ICDs
      • Adulthood ICDs
        • Unequal Age Distributions, between Genders
        • Gender Distributions – Female
        • Male
      • Late Adulthood ICDs
      • Special Topics
        • Abuse and Neglect
        • Addiction
        • Asthma and COPD
        • Diabetes
        • Epilepsy
        • Heart Failure
        • Hypertension
        • More on Gender Specificity
        • Aging Symmetries
        • Aging Asymmetries
        • Fatal and Non-fatal Genetic Disease
        • Socioculturalism and Health
        • Socioculturalism, Epidemiological Transition and Health in the United States
        • Psychologic and Psychiatric Disorders
        • Other Statistical Behaviors
      • Appendix – Exercises
      • Conclusion
  • Population Health Surveillance
    • An Overview
    • Topics Reviewed and Mapped
    • Grid mapping health and disease in the United States
      • 3D Mapping – Patterns Recognition
      • More 3D Mapping Examples
      • Dual Mapping – an Advanced 3D Grid Model-Point Mapping Routine
      • The Law of Results in Grid Mapping
      • Why 3D Mapping?
    • Large Scale Regional Comparison Studies
    • Interpreting Outcomes
    • Zip Code Area Lat-Long Analysis
    • Grid Cell Area Lat-Long Analysis
    • Rotating 3D Imagery Outcomes
    • Seeing the Elephant – Part 3
    • Production Examples
      • 429.83 – Takot subo or “Broken Heart Syndrome”
      • 528.1 – Noma
      • Agriterrorism
      • e979
      • Loa Loa, or African Eyeworm
      • Occupational Allergic Bronchitis and Particulate-based Lung Disease
      • Parents and Children
        • More on the Childhood and Teenage Years
      • Pinta, Yaws and Bejel (ICDs 103, 102 and 104)
      • Suicide
      • The Childhood Immunization Problem
        • Part I – Immunizable Disease Rates
      • Childhood and Adult Immunization Refusals
      • Lyme Disease
      • The Complete Production History
      • REGIONS & HEALTH – the Pacific Northwest as an Example
        • PNW, Part IV
        • PNW, Part V
    • Population Health Spatial Analysis – Bibliography
  • Populations and Managed Care
    • Managed Care and Big Data
      • Requirements for Big Business, Big Data
      • Spheres of Influence for HIEs
      • The 100 Million Patients Controversy
      • Steps for Integrating GIS into the Population-based Decision Making Process for Improving Health Care
      • Merging N, Prevalence, Claims and Cost onto a Single Risk Map
    • Applying GIS to Managed Care Quality Improvement Programs
      • Levels or Stages of HIT/GIS Utilization
    • Applications for a fine-tuned Population Pyramid instrument
    • Applying Culture to Managed Care Metrics
      • Cultural Metrics
      • Cultural Metrics – Part 2
      • Cultural Metrics – Part 3 Applications
      • Cultural Metrics – Part 4 Lists
    • Defining and Assessing Population Health Regions
    • The Role of ICDs as Sensitive Poverty Indicators
    • Disease patterns linked to Culturally-defined Health Regions
      • Defining and Stratifying Risk based upon ICD-Culture Relationships
    • Other Ways to Improve QI Reporting for Managed Care
    • REGIONS & HEALTH: New York versus Western Population Health, A New Perspective
  • Cultural Medicine and Health
    • American Indian/Native American Health
    • Cuban Medicine
    • Fakirs
    • Heilkunders
    • Unaniism
  • Global Health Mapping
    • Bioterrorism
    • Foreign Disease Intrusion
    • The 1989 World Health Organization Report
    • Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases, Part I
    • Zoonoses
• West Nile Surveillance
  • The Research Area
  • Vectors
  • Assigning Risk
  • Host Surveillance
  • Vector Ecology and Surveillance
  • Plant Ecology
  • Topography
  • NLCD Grid Mapping and West Nile
  • West Nile – Light Penetration Study
  • Remote Sensing – West Nile
  • Case-related Surveillance
• Environmental Health GIS
  • The Benzene Theory
  • Cases
  • Chemical Release Sites – ECSI/TRI
  • Confirmed Release Inventory (CRI) Sites
    • CRI Chemistry
    • A SIC-based Reclassification Process
  • Identifying High-Risk Sites
    • High Risk Site Chemical Profiles
  • FINAL REPORT for Grant Funded Research [2002]
• Spatial Analysis of Exposure
  • Theissen Polygon Analysis
  • Buffer Analysis
    • Buffers – Methodology
    • Aromatics – a site buffer analysis
  • Points-Census Block-Spider Analysis
  • Grid Cell Analysis
  • 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
      • PALEOBOTANY & CHEMICALS
      • GEOGRAPHY OF PLANT CHEMICALS
      • 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)
      • Other Legends of Sleepy Hollow
        • 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
        • Personal Health
        • 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)
  • Projects Examples

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