Paper describing Dr. Ignacio Barraqueur's technique for removing cataracts by suction (facoerisis), as demonstrated to Dr. Harrison during his year of observation and study with Dr. Barraqueur at the Santa Cruz and San Pablo Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. Foreword written by Dr. Charles Emory Gould Shannon.
A summary of the medical research conducted in the 19th and 20th centuries into the causes of yellow fever, with particular emphasis on the findings of Carlos Finlay, M.D. The paper was researched at Thomas Jefferson University and includes a list of sources.
A historical study of male nurses written in fulfillment of requirements for Nursing 307 in the Dept. of Nursing, College of Allied Health Sciences, Thomas Jefferson University. With some margin comments by the course instructor, the paper includes an abstract and list of references.
Prize essay of the Medical Society of King's College, London, for the year 1858.
Advertisement for a remedy purported to relieve stomach ailments, invented in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in the House of Tilly in 1764 and sold there by descendants of Nicolas de Koning Tilly.
Annual yearbook of poems submitted to and accepted by the Pegasus Club, including poems by John Chalmers Da Costa, John Kearsley Mitchell, Silas Weir Mitchell, and Solomon Solis-Cohen.
This collection contains several published biographies and memoirs of Parvin, four addresses, photocopies of several of his publications, letters sent to Parvin, news clippings, and various ephemera.