Papers of John Denison Hartshorn, 1754-1786 (inclusive).

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Papers of John Denison Hartshorn, 1754-1786 (inclusive).

Contains lists compiled by Hartshorn, of medications sent to troops in French and Indian War; Hartshorn's poems; Gardiner's notes, written by Hartshorn, on diseases and medical cases; patient reports; recipes for compounding of medicines; and a few letters.

1 box.

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Hartshorn, John Denison, d. 1756.

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Hartshorn was apprenticed to Silvester Gardiner, a Boston physician who kept an apothecary shop and medical bookstore. From the description of Papers of John Denison Hartshorn, 1754-1786 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281435229 ...

Gardiner, Silvester, 1708-1786

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Loyalist and Boston physician and landowner. From the description of Papers, 1767-1785. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35074035 Physician, of Boston, Mass., and Newport, R.I.; studied medicine in Europe; had apothecary shops in Boston, Meriden, Conn., and Hartford; lander developer of the Kennebec River Valley and promoter of the Kennebec Company; builder of towns of Pittston and Gardiner, Me.; Loyalist; fled to Halifax and England, later returning to Newport. ...