Medicine
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur B. Stewart, President, Davis Coal and Coke Company, Correspondence Regarding Medical Treatment for Coal Miners
Charles N. Brown Medical Journal
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.
Circular Regarding Creation of a Professional Medical Organization in West Virginia (Facsimile)
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.
Daniel Hale, Physician and Conservationist, Papers
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.
George S. Goldstein, Health Care Administrator, Records regarding United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds
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.
J. H. Kelley, Physicians' Accounts
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.
Mason County Medical Doctors Index
Robinson Family Manuscripts
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.
Salt Sulphur Springs Records
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.