Material pertaining to the identity of Giles Parsons and his A little book of rare receipts for the cure of several distempers : [England?], [19--?].

Parsons, Giles

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Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957

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Henry E. Sigerist was born in Paris, France in 1891. He studied in Europe, served in the Swiss Army Corps, and received his M.D. from the University of Zurich in 1917. He was lecturer and professor of history of medicine at Zurich (1921-1924) and the University of Leipzig (1925-1932). He then served as professor and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (1932-1947), before becoming a research associate at Yale University (1947-1957). Sigerist published ...

Abt, Isaac A. (Isaac Arthur), 1867-

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Chicago pediatrician. From the description of Isaac Arthur Abt Papers, 1888-1966. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82557739 Isaac Arthur Abt, pediatrician and Northwestern University Medical School professor, was born in Wilmington, Illinois on December 18, 1867. He began his practice in internal medicine but gravitated to pediatrics, with a particular intererst in nutrion, and became one of the earliest specialists in the field. In 1897 Abt became Professor of Di...