Commonplace-book, 1823-[1838].

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Commonplace-book, 1823-[1838].

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Commonplace-book kept by Dr. David H. Storer of Boston. The entries contain notes and abstracts on various subjects, among them mineralogy, historic figures, and climate, along with citations as to the source of the information. The subjects most heavily represented are medicine and surgery on which he recorded extracts of published works as well as notes on his own cases. Many of the entries are undated; however, his medical cases date from 1823-26 (including some kept while a student at Harvard Medical School, Class of 1825) and the citations of printed works date through 1838.

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Harvard Medical School.

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Storer, David Humphreys, 1804-1891

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Storer graduated from Harvard in 1825, taught obstetrics and medical jurisprudence, and served as Dean of the Harvard Medical School. From the description of Papers of David Humphreys Storer, ca. 1890. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972890 U.S. ichthyologist and obstetrician, 1804-1890. From the description of Letter, 1829, Oct. 15 : to Jesse Putnam. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31822022 Storer (Harvard Medical School, M.D. 1925) w...