Recipes

This small collection, 1885-1935, documents Jesse Elmer Shuman's medical education at the University of Pennsylvania and the Medical Institute of Philadelphia and includes matriculation and lecture admission tickets, lecture schedules, examination questions, and a recipe book. Also included are some newsclippings, a volume of notes used from 1912-1931, for lectures on materia medica, and an undated typescript address on angina pectoris.

Notebook, 1832, of physician John Meigs, including recipes, notes on various medical authors, and notes on midwifery lectures of R. D. Mussey at the New Hampshire Medical Institution.

Commonplace book, 1848-1883, containing medicinal and household recipes, poetry, and quotations. Several printed items laid in.

Recipe book of unnamed Lancaster County, Pa., physician, circa 1854. Includes notes on dosages and recipes with notes on use and effectiveness. Numerous citations to published works on materia medica and medical periodicals. Several recipes derive from botanic or eclectic medical sources. Index to contents in volume.

Contents: Recipe book/scrapbook -- Medical license registration certificate, May 18, 1893 -- American Medical Association membership certificate, no. 17452 (undated) -- Invoice forms -- Envelopes containing tags from books formerly on display now a) Retained in the Library b) Removed from the Library