Papers of Edward Brooks Peirson, 1842-1874 (inclusive), 1852-1864 (bulk).

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Papers of Edward Brooks Peirson, 1842-1874 (inclusive), 1852-1864 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/281431959

Contains letters addressed to Peirson from various colleagues, patients, family members, and friends. Subjects concern patient referrals, medical treatment, various surgical operations especially to remove tumors, Peirson's marriages and other family matters, and Civil War events including Peirson's involvement and surgical work. Also includes a recommendation to commit a woman to an insane asylum for alleged criminal behavior, letters of payment from patients, copies of Pierson's outgoing letters pertaining to compensation for an accident and other financial concerns, an account book belonging to Peirson and his wife, and 18 photographs of men at Lincoln General Hospital depicting injuries sustained from Virginia battlefields in 1864 along with 6 case histories. Major correspondents include James Jackson.

3 boxes.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Peirson, Edward Brooks, 1820-1874

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Peirson (Harvard, M.D. 1844) practiced in Salem, Mass., and served as president of the Essex County South District Medical Society. He married twice, first to Catherine Pickman Saltonstall (1846), and later to Ellen Elizabeth Perry (1856). From the description of Papers of Edward Brooks Peirson, 1842-1874 (inclusive), 1852-1864 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281431959 ...

Peirson, Catherine Saltonstall, d. 1852.

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Jackson, James, 1777-1867

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U.S. surgeon, physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. From the description of Notes from lectures delivered by James Jackson, MD, professor of theory and practice of physic, and John C. Warren, MD, professor of anatomy and surgery, at Harvard University, 1827-28 / taken by Stephen Bates. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31931557 Jackson (Harvard, M.D. 1809) was Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School from 1812 to 1836 ...

Lincoln General Hospital (Washington, D.C.)

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Peirson, Ellen Perry, 1828-

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