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M. Felix Freshwater papers

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 55
Abstract: M. Felix Freshwater, M.D. (1948-2016) was a prominent plastic surgeon specializing in hand surgery and microsurgery. Freshwater graduated from the Yale School of Medicine in 1972, completed residencies at Yale New Haven Hospital and the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, held fellowships at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Louisville/Jewish Hospital in Louisville, KY, and was in private practice from 1979 to 2016 at the Miami Institute of...
Dates: circa 1940-2016

Medical trade card collection

 Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 6
Abstract:

This collection contains about a thousand chromolithograph advertising trade cards related to health, nutrition, and remedies, published from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The majority of the trade cards were produced by the Liebig Extract of Meat Company, Antwerp, Brussels, founded in 1865. Other trade cards in the collection were distributed mostly by American patent medicine manufacturers.

Dates: ca. 1872-1958, bulk 1885-1910

Miscellaneous letters collection

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 49
Abstract:

Miscellaneous Letters Collection is a collection of hundreds of individual letters or small groups of letters, mostly by physicians and scientists, either donated to the Historical Library or purchased.

Dates: 1649-1961

Patent medicine almanacs

 Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 3
Abstract:

The collection contains almanacs issued annually by American and a few Canadian companies to promote the sale of their proprietary remedies. Of special note is a complete collection of Hostetter's Almanac from 1867 through 1910.

Dates: 1843-1966

Sheet music collection on medical themes

 Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 5
Abstract:

Sheet music on medical themes including songs and piano compositions about medical providers, ailments, remedies, health for children, and advertisements for medical products. Much of the music was performed in music halls or as part of musicals, or later, performed on radio, television, and on records.

Dates: ca. 1762-1989, bulk 1890-1940

Dr. Thomas Siveter papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Call Number: Ms Coll 92
Scope and Contents:

The collection includes materials from Iowa physician Thomas Siveter (1800-1893), a prominent surgeon in Salem, Iowa from 1845-1893 and a founding member of the Iowa State Medical Society. The collection includes a patient logbook, advertisements for medications and medical products, correspondence, and a few items of ephemera.

Dates: circa 1880 - 1882

Iser Steiman papers

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 27
Abstract: The papers consist primarily of letters between Iser Steiman and John F. Fulton from 1943 to Fulton's death in 1960. Both sides of the correspondence are available as Steiman kept copies of his own letters. Other correspondents include Madeline Stanton, Harriet Thomson, and Wiliam C. Gibson. Topics include avaiation medicine; Steiman's translations of Soviet Russian works on military medicine; and history of medicine. Also part of the collection is a copy of a typewritten autobiography by...
Dates: 1943-1975, bulk 1943-1960