Author:        New York Academy of Medicine.
Title:         Miscellaneous physicians' diaries, 1791-1946.
Description:   105 v.
Notes:         Diaries, primarily nineteenth century, contain
                  accounts of travel; medical training, practices, and work in
                  hospitals; wars in which physicians served; and personal
                  affairs.  Among the many diarists are Charles Buxton;
                  Frederic Shepard Dennis, England; David Hosack; Milo Linus
                  North, Sharon, Conn. and Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; Willard
                  Parker; Caleb Wyand Geeting Rohrer, Baltimore, Md.; Howard
                  Townsend; Peter Solomon Townsend; Daniel Brigham, Berlin,
                  Mass.; John Burke, New York; David Hanford; Francis William
                  O'Connor; Isaac Paine, Marshfield, Mass.; Linsley Rudd
                  Williams; and others.  Of note are a diary kept by Ferebe E.
                  Guion while a nursing student at St. Luke's Hospital Training
                  School for Nurses, and at Sloane Maternity Hospital, 1891-ca.
                  1898; diaries kept by Nathan Sturges Jarvis while he served
                  as a surgeon in the army in Florida, 1837-1839, and in Texas
                  during the war with Mexico, 1845-1846; a diary kept by
                  Armentus Boyden Bixby while Assistant Surgeon with the 4th
                  Regiment Vermont Volunteers, 1862-1864, in Virginia and
                  Maryland; and a medical log containing letters, clippings,
                  photographs, and wireless messages kept by James Francis
                  O'Donnelly while aboard the S.S. RED CROSS, 1914 (the ship
                  was carrying doctors, nurses, and medical supplies from the
                  American National Red Cross).  Some appointment books are
                  included.
               Card catalog.
Subjects:      Buxton, Charles, 1768-1833.
               Dennis, Frederic Shepard.
               Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
               North, Milo Linus.
               Parker, Willard, 1800-1884.
               Rohrer, Caleb Wyand Geeting.
               Townsend, Howard.
               Townsend, Peter Solomon.
               Brigham, Daniel.
               Burke, John.
               Hanford, David.
               0'Connor, William Francis.
               Paine, Isaac.
               Williams, Linsley Rudd.
               Guion, Ferebe E.
               Jarvis, Nathan Sturges.
               Bixby, Armentus Boyden.
               Donnelly, James Francis.
               Red Cross (Ship)
               American National Red Cross.
               St. Luke's Hospital (New York, N.Y.). Training
                  School for Nurses.
               Sloane Hospital for Women (New York, N.Y.)
               United States. Army. Regiment, Vermont
                  Volunteers, 4th.
               Medicine -- History.
               Medicine -- Study and teaching.
               Hospitals -- New York (N.Y.)
               Hospitals, Gynecologic and obstetric -- New York
                  (N.Y.)
               Medicine -- Practice.
               Physicians -- Diaries.
               Physicians -- New York (N.Y.)
               Physicians -- England.
               Physicians -- Connecticut -- Sharon.
               Physicians -- New York (State) -- Saratoga
                  Springs.
               Physicians -- Maryland -- Baltimore.
               Physicians -- Massachusetts -- Berlin.
               Physicians -- Massachussetts -- Marshfield.
               Women -- Diaries.
               Nursing students -- New York (N.Y.)
               Nursing schools -- New York (N.Y.)
               Surgeons.
               Medical education.
               World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Red Cross.
               Florida -- History -- 1821-1865.
               Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846.
               United States -- Armed Forces.
               United States -- History -- War with Mexico,
                  1845-1848 -- Medical care.
               United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
                  -- Medical care.
               Diaries. ftamc
               Photoprints. ftamc
Location:      New York Academy of Medicine. Malloch Rare Book
                  and History of Medicine Collection, New York, NY.
Control No.:   NYHV87-A2272

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