Richard Furman's treatment for dysentery
Please note that items in bold are described in the Library's online catalog and you will need to review the catalog to obtain the call number of each item. Other items are described in guides in Special Collections and Archives.
- The Richard Furman Collection: contains Richard Furman's own notes on treatments for disease, from the late eighteenth century.
- The Patrick McGill Family Papers: contain nineteenth century medical bills, including bills for medical care of slaves and medical attendance during childbirth. Bills also contain information on medications prescribed for illnesses.
- The Marjorie Barr O'Steen Family Collection: contains family correspondence on the death of Marjorie Barr O'Steen after a three-year battle with cancer in 1964.
- The Elijah M. Hicks Papers: contains information on medicines created as a result of Hicks' research in chemistry during the mid-20th century.
- The Poteat Family Collection: contains several essays related to alcoholism and its treatment, as well as essays on Chinese medicine, dating from the early to mid-20th century.
- The Thursday Club Collection: contains Sarah Fletcher's 2003 essay "Complementary and Alternative Medicine."
- Religion in Life lecture series: contains the audio recording "AIDS: medical facts and moral reflections," given by David W. Potts in 1991.
- The AIDS and Sexuality Periodicals Collection: contains periodicals from 1993 to 2007 related to issues of HIV/AIDS and human sexuality.
- The vvonderfull yeare 1603, Thomas Dekker (1572-1632), 1924 reprint
- Observations on the diseases of the army, John Pringle, 1761
- A Short Description of the Province of South Carolina, George Milligen, 1770
- Flora carolinæensis; or, A historical, medical, and economical display of the vegetable kingdom; according to the Linnæan or sexual system of botany ... In two volumes, John L.E.W. Shecut. Vol. I [A-Fus], 1806
- The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America, by the authority of the medical societies and colleges, 1830
- The Southern Gardener and Receipt Book, P. Thornton, 1840 -- contains Harriet Furman's prescription for cholera
- Wouldst know thyself! or, The outlines of human physiology. By Mrs. Jane Taylor. Designed for the use of families and schools, Jane Taylor, 1852
- The American flora, or history of plants and wild flowers: containing their scientific and general description, natural history, chemical and medical properties, mode of culture, propagation, &c., designed as a book of reference for botanists, physicians, florists, gardeners, students, etc, A.B. Strong, 1853
- The family flora and materia medica botanica, containing the botanical analysis, natural history and chemical and medical properties and uses of plants, Peter P. Good, 1854
- Journal of Materia Medica, vol. VII no. 6, Joseph Bates, M.D. and H.A. Tilden, 1868
- Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural; being also a medical botany of the Southern States; with practical information on the useful properties of trees, plants and shrubs, Francis Peyre Porcher, 1869
- The Science of Health, a new monthly devoted to health on Hygienic Principles vol. 5 no. 3, 1874
- The Throat and the Voice., J. Solis Cohen, M.D., 1879
- Reminiscences of the war. Biography and personal sketches of all the commanding officiers of the Union Army. Narrative of the Morgan raid in Indiana and Ohio. Fall of Richmond and the surrender of Gen'l Lee. Flight of Jeff. Davis, C. J. Wood, 1880
- Medical missions: their place and power, John Lowe; with introduction by William Muir, 1896
- Opportunities in the path of the Great Physician, Valeria Fullerton Penrose, 1902
- New ideals in healing, Ray Stannard Baker, 1909
- La antigüedad de la sífilis en el Perú, Julio C. Tello, 1909
- Pellagra, Dr. A. Marie; with introductory notes by Prof. Lombroso, 1910
- The household medical adviser: a complete, popular-scientific work of reference: how to avoid illness, and how to prescribe for and treat all classes of ailments & diseases, compiled from the most recent recognised system of prevention and cure by H. Muller, ca. 1910
- Library of health; complete guide to prevention and cure of disease, containing practical information on anatomy, physiology and preventive medicine; curative medicine, first aid measures, diagnosis, nursing, sexology, simple home remedies, care of the teeth, occupational diseases, garden plant remedies, alcohol and narcotics, treatment by fifteen schools of medicine, beauty culture, physical culture, the science of breathing and the dictionary of drugs. Twenty books - one volume, B. Frank Scholl et. al, 1916
- Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not, Florence Nightingale, 1918
- The future independence and progress of American medicine in the age of chemistry, John Abel et. al., American Chemical Society, 1923
- Health through prevention and control of diseases, Thomas D. Wood and Hugh Grant Rowell, 1925
- Weather observers and observations at Charleston, South Carolina, 1670-1871, Robert Croom Aldredge, 1940 -- a work on medical climatology
- Surgery speaks to China; the experiences of a medical missionary to China in peace and in war, Paul E. Adolph, 1945
- In a Chinese garden, Frederic Loomis, 1949
- A Medical History of Greenville County, South Carolina, J. Decherd Guess, M.D., 1959
- A History of Medicine in South Carolina, 1900-1970, Joseph Ioor Waring, 1971
- Humanities in health care: proceedings of the Malpractice, the Interaction of Medicine and Justice through Public Policy Symposium, ed. Donnie J. Self, 1976
- Urology and psychosocial aspects of chronic, critical, and terminal illness, eds. John K. Lattimer et al., 1983
- Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: the complete English translation of her classic work on health and healing, translated from the Latin by Priscilla Throop; illustrations by Mary Elder Jacobsen, 1998
- Flora mirabilis: how plants have shaped world knowledge, health, wealth, and beauty, Catherine Herbert Howell; foreword by Peter H. Raven, 2009
- "'The healing of the nations': women's medical mission in the 'orient,'" in A looking-glass for ladies: American Protestant women and the Orient in the nineteenth century, Lisa Joy Pruitt, 2005
- Breast cancer: reduce your risk with foods you love, Robert Pendergrast, 2011
- "The Progress of Medicine," Manly Eskew Hutchinson, in 1916 Graduation essays, Furman University, 1916
- Health insurance and genetic discrimination: law strength, political factors, and the 50 states, Sarah A. Grivas, 2004--Political Science Honors Essay 3rd place winner
- Pharmacodynamic basis of herbal medicine, Manuchair Ebadi, 2007, Reference Collection
- Medicinal plants of the world: an illustrated scientific guide to important medicinal plants and their uses, Ben-Erik van Wyk, Michael Wink, 2004, Reference Collection
- The Oxford illustrated companion to medicine, eds. Stephen Lock, John M. Last, and George Dunea; emeritus editors, John Walton, Paul B. Beeson, Jeremiah A. Barondess, 2001, Reference Collection
- A dictionary of the history of medicine, Anton Sebastian, 1999, Reference Collection
- Dictionary of medical sociology, William C. Cockerham and Ferris J. Ritchey, 1997, Reference Collection
- Medical meanings: a glossary of word origins, William S. Haubrich, 1997, Reference Collection
- Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine, eds. W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter, 1997, Reference Collection
- Eighteenth century bibliographies: handlists of critical studies relating to Smollett, Richardson, Sterne, Fielding, Dibdin, 18th century medicine, the 18th century novel, Godwin, Gibbon, Young, and Burke. To which is added John P. Anderson's Bibliography of Smollett, Francesco Cordasco, 1970, Reference Collection
- MEDLINE, provides contemporary information on medicine from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book: contains secondary source ebooks on the history of disease and medicine internationally.
- Oxford Scholarship, contains secondary source ebooks on the history of disease and medicine internationally.
- Cambridge Histories: contains secondary source articles on the history of disease and medicine internationally.
- European Views of the Americas, 1493-1750, contains treatises and other reports on diseases, particularly those migrating to Europe from the New World as part of the Columbian Exchange.
- Early English Books Online (EEBO): contains primary source herbals, treatises on disease, and guides for home medical treatment.
- Eighteenth Century Collections: contains primary source lectures and treatises on disease, and guides for home medical treatment.
- History of Medicine, online exhibits and other resources on the history of medicine from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine, online exhibits and information on the history of medicine from the Science Museum in London.
- Battle-Scarred: Caring for the Sick and Wounded of the Civil War, online exhibit from the Countway Library of Medicine's Center for the History of Medicine.
