Papers, 1845-1868.

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Papers, 1845-1868.

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Correspondence, case descriptions, committee report, transcript of speech, excerpts from published materials, and other miscellaneous items. Correspondence on medical issues includes letter 25 Aug. 1854 expressing disapproval of treatment of cholera patients. Series 2 contains case descriptions of two patients, a woman suffering from an illness causing convulsions and nausea and report of a man who dislocated metatarsal bones in his foot. Series 3 includes report of Medical Society of Northampton County's Committee on "Clerico-Medical Examiners" expressing disapproval of clerics practicing medicine without proper training and transcript of speech given by William C. Cattell, President of Lafayette College, on dedication of Lafayette's observatory, which had been donated by Green. Inclues brief genealogy of the Traill family and an engraving of Green.

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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Traill family.

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Lafayette College (Easton, Northampton County, Pa.)

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Owen, Richard, 1804-1892

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Richard Owen was a comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. From the description of Letter from Richard Owen to Charles LeĢopold Laurillard to introduce John Gould, 1833 [manuscript]. [1833] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 277137992 Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of London; authority on comparative anatomy, vertebrate paleontology and geology. From the description of Osteological contributions to the natural history of the chimpanzees (Tr...

Medical Society of Northampton County (Pa.)

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Green, Traill, 1813-1897

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Professor of Chemistry. From the description of Addresses. 1868-1882. (Lafayette College). WorldCat record id: 52453013 Traill Green was born in Easton, Pa., on 25 May 1813. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835. He practiced medicine for less than a year then returned to Easton to teach chemistry at Lafayette College. In 1841, Green accepted a position to teach the natural sciences at Marshall College in Mercersb...

Cattell, William C. (William Cassiday), 1827-1898

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William Cassady Cattell (1842-1898) was president of Lafayette College from 1863-1883. Cattell also taught during his years as president, serving as Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy. After his retirement as president of Lafayette College, Cattell took a new post as Secretary of the Board of Ministerial Relief of the Presbyterian Church in 1884. A heart condition caused him to retire in 1896. Despite his continuing health problems, Cattell accepted a position as President of the Presbyter...