Abstract
Letters addressed to Dr. A. W. Smith, appearing to give a history of the eclectic medicine movement. Except for one item, all letters were written between 1904-1908.
Dates
- 1881-1908 (bulk 1904-1908)
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)
Creator
- Wilder, Alexander, 1823-1908 (Person)
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Language of Materials
Collection materials primarily in English
Restrictions
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Biographical Note
Alexander Wilder was president of the Eclectic Medical College, 1867-1877, and professor of psychology, U. S. Medical College, 1878-1883.
Wilder wrote History of medicine. A brief outline of medical history and sects of physicians, from the earliest historic period; with an extended account of the new schools of the healing art in the nineteenth century, and especially a history of the American eclectic practice of medicine, never before published (1901).
Collection Summary
Letters addressed to Dr. A. W. Smith, appearing to give a history of the eclectic medicine movement. Except for one item, all letters were written between 1904-1908.
Abstract
Letters addressed to Dr. A. W. Smith, appearing to give a history of the eclectic medicine movement. Except for one item, all letters were written between 1904-1908.
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Provenance
Purchase, Doris Harris Autographs, 9/22/1978. Accession #281.
General
- Processed by
- HMD staff
- Processing Completed
- c.1978; 2003
- Encoded by
- Jim Labosier
Creator
- Wilder, Alexander, 1823-1908 (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Alexander Wilder Papers, 1881-1908 (bulk 1904-1908)
- Status
- Unverified Partial Draft
- Author
- HMD staff; Jim Labosier
- Date
- c.1978; 2003
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latn
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Edition statement
- 1.0
Collecting Area Details
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