Title: Medical notebook of William Aspinwall,
Authors: Aspinwall, William, 1743-1823.; Aspinwall, William, 1743-1823,
Year: 1775
Subjects: Diseases Treatment.; Drugs Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Materia medica.; Medical care Massachusetts; Medicine Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medicine Massachusetts History; Physicians' writings.; History of Medicine; Materia Medica; Medical Records; Medicine 18th century.; Brookline (Mass.)
Abstract: Volume kept by Dr. William Aspinwall (1743-1823), presumably in the late eighteenth century, containing medical notes taken primarily from the published works of other physicians, and several patient case histories. Aspinwall composed entries on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of pleurisy, intermitting fever, apoplexy, palsy, consumption, and nervous disorders, among other conditions. Patient case histories included his treatment of a woman with a broken finger and a man with a lacerated thigh. Also contains medicinal recipes and prescriptions for assorted issues, such as a sore inflamed eye, for which Aspinwall recommended application of allum curd and hog fat to the eyelid. One recipe is dated as received on March 3, 1775. There additionally are notes on anatomy and illnesses that afflicted certain body parts. The bulk of the volume is blank.