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Medicine

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bowdoin College Folklore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MF006
Scope and Contents

Students from Bowdoin college investigated topics and wrote papers related to the folklore and folklife of Maine communities, including beliefs of fishermen, cookery, farm life, Prohibition and rum-running, mill work, Bath Iron Works, lobstering, quilting, folk medicine, ghosts,lighthouse keeping, boat building, lumbering, ship building, carpentry, hunting, and storytelling.

Dates: 1980

John G. Brown Notebook

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0885-sc
Abstract

A physician's handwritten notebook dated January 1, 1825, Waldoborough, Maine, which includes notes on diagnosis of diseases of the chest with a stethoscope, prescriptions for diseases, medicinal recipes, and a drawing of areas of the skull.

Dates: 1825