Papers of Abel Lawrence Peirson, 1812-1905 (inclusive), 1812-1866 (bulk).

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Papers of Abel Lawrence Peirson, 1812-1905 (inclusive), 1812-1866 (bulk).

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Contains correspondence pertaining to medical matters such as the use of ether, patients, and Dr. J.S. Bartlett's expulsion from the Massachusetts Medical Society; and some family correspondence. Also includes manuscripts of Peirson's lectures and writings, including several on temperance and alcoholism, and on the need for bodies for dissection; lecture and student notes from Harvard and abroad; and notes on patients he was treating; bills and receipts, account books (1844-1866) belonging to Abel and to his son Edward Brooks Peirson; and newspaper clippings.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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