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The collection consists of 4 notebooks of lectures made by Gustavus R. Brown while a student at the University of Edinburgh in 1766-1768.  There are four volumes in the collection: 1-2. Lectures on physiology by William Cullen, 1766-1767; 3. Cullen's  practice [of physic] by William Cullen,  and  4. Doctor Young on midwifery by Thomas Young, 1767-1768.

The Beaumont collection includes correspondence, notebooks and casebooks, pre-publication drafts, notes, certificates, press clippings, and legal and financial documents.  The major subject of the collection is the Alexis St. Martin case and the pioneering and controversial experiments on St. Martin that illuminated the physiology of human digestion.  The papers also document Beaumont’s strong influence on his family including his wife, parents, siblings, and children; his career as a U. S. army surgeon, 1812-1939; land speculation in Plattsburgh, Green Bay and Saint Louis; and his service on the U.S. Army Board and professional associations.  Of local interest is the correspondence on Beaumont’s medical practice in Saint Louis, 1939-1853; two malpractice lawsuits; the Saint Louis Medical College where Beaumont served as a faculty member; and the politics in the Saint Louis medical community.

The manuscript collection described below consists of three document series arranged predominantly in chronological order.  Series 1 includes all items that were described in the 1968 Index.  For reasons never discussed in the 1968 Index, many items in the gift of papers to Washington University were omitted from its elaborate analysis.  These items now make up Series 2 and Series 3 of the Beaumont Papers.  Beaumont’s notebooks are compiled into Series 2.  Newspaper clippings and book reviews that were once in the possession of Beaumont and his family make up Series 3.

This collection includes a single handwritten letter by former president Thomas Jefferson. The letter, dated December 26, 1814, was sent to John McAllister, an optician in Philadelphia. McAllister had crafted several sets of Jefferson’s lenses that were purchased during his second presidential term. Several years had passed since Jefferson bought the lenses and he had only just begun to use one of the sets McAllister had made. As he began using this particular set regularly, he found that a few didn’t work as desired. In the letter, Jefferson explains, in his eloquent style, what he perceives to be the problem and asks McAllister to repair the faulty lenses.

Collection of remedies drawn chiefly from the compiler's family physician: Isham Burdett (Missouri Medical College, Class of 1861). Includes other recipes, with names of donors. (preface, p. 15). Holograph signed.

This collection includes minutes of the faculty, rules and regulations, and faculty correspondence.

Minutes of the St. Louis Dental Society, 1872-1886 & 1921-1929, with the minutes of two allied professional organizations: Dentists’ Scientific and Benevolent Association, 1883-1884, and St. Louis Society of Dental Science, 1906-1924.

Most of the documents are course catalogs or commencement programs which are arranged in short series according to academic name. There are only a few unpublished items in the collection, including the notes of a Barnes medical student (1899-1900) and several Barnes Dental College contracts (1908-1915 with related letter).

The Female Hospital of St. Louis records include a patient register (volume 20 x 15.5 inches) containing names of patients admitted to the hospital, 1876-1886, and a booklet, "Rules and regulations for the government of the Female Hospital submitted by the health commissioner to the board of health, John D. Stevenson, health commissioner," 1884.

This small collection contains notebooks kept by Thomas S. Watson and several miscellaneous documents. The notebooks include those kept by Watson while he was a student at Missouri Medical College, and notebooks containing medical prescription formulas. The documents include medical treatment notes and documents related to Watson’s drug store.

Reprints of papers, essays, and addresses by Walter Wyman, MD, Surgeon General, 1883-1911... secured through courtesy of Messrs Henry P. and Frank Wyman for the St. Louis Medical History Club by George Homan, MD,... 1911.

Statistics of Cholera in Saint Louis in 1866...by Robt. Moore, a 3 by 5 inch notebook containing mortality data for all blocks of the city in that year. The folder also contains related printed matter.

This collection consists of 24 documents and photographs related to the education of Heinrich Wilhelm Homeyer in Germany in the late 19th century. The majority of the documents refer to Homeyer's medical education, but the collection also includes his high school matriculation certificate and his undergraduate matriculation certificate, as well as his credentials to study medicine. Homeyer's medical school disseration was translated from the original German in 1986 by Marion McGuinn, former Rare Book Librarian at Becker Library. His translation and an annotated photocopy of the dissertation are also included in this collection.

This small collection includes a notebook kept by William P. Rowland with brief notes on obstetrical patients, 1888-1916. The notebook also includes 75 pages of notes in German, circa 1885.

The collection also includes a reprint of an address given by Rowland at the 1907 meeting of the North Missouri Medical Association.