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Medicine

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur B. Stewart, President, Davis Coal and Coke Company, Correspondence Regarding Medical Treatment for Coal Miners

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4366
Content Description Photocopies of correspondence of Arthur B. Stewart, President of the Davis Coal and Coke Company of Baltimore, Maryland, regarding medical treatment of coal miners. Formats include correspondence (mainly carbon copies), memoranda, and questionaires. The majority of the correspondence is between Stewart and medical doctors; the most frequent correspondent is Dr. Joseph Miller of Thomas, West Virginia. Subjects include health concerns of miners and laborers and treatment for common ailments,...
Dates: 1934-1940

Charles N. Brown Medical Journal

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3218
Overview

Medical journal of Dr. Charles N. Brown, a Preston County doctor and son of Dr. Ashford Brown. Entries include date of visit, patient's name, services rendered, and payment received. Some entries include case notes. There are also notes on how to cultivate ginseng.

Dates: 1894-1905

Circular Regarding Creation of a Professional Medical Organization in West Virginia (Facsimile)

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3647
Overview

Facsimile copy of a circular regarding the establishment of an organization for medical professionals in the state of West Virginia signed by representatives, some identified as "M.D.", from communities in the state, including Fairmont, Grafton, Morgantown, and Wheeling, among a few other locations. Signatures include H. W. Brock, John C. Hupp, and Thomas Kennedy, among others.

Dates: 1867

Daniel Hale, Physician and Conservationist, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3163
Overview

The correspondence, scrapbooks, articles and speeches of the collection document the later portion of the life of Daniel Hale (1912-1975), a Princeton physician and conservationist, who was a creator of the board of the Southern Soil Conservation District, and a founder of the Mountain Resource Conservation and Development Area. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, James Kee, Arch A. Moore, Jr., and Jennings Randolph.

Dates: 1953-1975

George S. Goldstein, Health Care Administrator, Records regarding United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3285
Overview

Records of Dr. George S. Goldstein, a health care administrator who worked in the Ohio and Pennsylvania coal fields. Dr. Goldstein's work concerned the Appalachian coalfield medical care system, especially in terms of the role played by the United Mine Workers of America and its health and retirement fund.

Dates: 1950-1992

J. H. Kelley, Physicians' Accounts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2688
Overview

Four volumes titled "Physician's Visiting List," dated 1886, 1891, 1905, and 1906, for the Parkersburg, West Virginia, area. The 1891 copy contains a prescription written by J.H. Kelley, M.D. of Parkersburg, suggesting that all volumes were Kelley's. They contain numerous names, addresses, charges, and treatments, as well as other miscellaneous notes.

Dates: 1886, 1891, 1905-1906

Mason County Medical Doctors Index

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3067
Overview A list of Mason County medical practitioners alphabetically arranged, and including life span dates, parents' names, spouses' name, dates of practice, region of practice, and titles of books where more information can be found. Mention is made of early frontier doctors, James Craik and William Fleming. Craik was the doctor accompanying George Washington's surveying party to Pt. Pleasant, and Fleming was the attending physician to the wounded at the Battle of Pt. Pleasant. Material covers the...
Dates: undated

Robinson Family Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2662
Overview

Most of the letters are to Helen M. Robinson of Fetterman, Taylor County, West Virginia, from relatives and friends. Subjects discussed include housekeeping, fashions, farming, schools, religion, and the Civil War from both the Confederate and Union perspectives. There are frequent, specific references to the political and military state-of-affairs in the upper Ohio Valley region.

Dates: 1847-1883

Salt Sulphur Springs Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0085
Scope and Contents

List of guests at the Salt Sulphur Springs, including place of residence, and numbers of horses and servants. No data is given for the years 1831-1833. Pasted in the back of the last volume are doctors' prescriptions for medicine at Union, West Virginia, in 1883.

Dates: 1825-1883

Squire Bosworth, Physician, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3054
Overview The day book and papers of Dr. Squire Bosworth and family. Squire Bosworth was one of the earliest physicians of Randolph County, and his day book records details of his medical practice indicating common procedures and remedies as well as charges and costs during the early nineteenth century. Bosworth was also a deputy and county clerk of Randolph County, and included among the papers are court documents. Along with his son, Squire Newton Bosworth, the family acquired interests in...
Dates: 1786-1964