Commonplace book of Moses Appleton, 1791-1815 (inclusive)

Volume containing medicinal recipes, medical notes, poetry, and obituaries written by Dr. Moses Appleton (1773-1849). Many of the recipes were copied from medical texts or other publications. His "cure for the dropsy," taken from the New York Herald, contained stale cider, parsley, horseradish, oxymel squills (sea onion in honey), and juniper berries. For diarrhea, he prescribed a blackberry syrup. Several entries indicate Appleton practiced Thomsonian medicine, an alternative system based on use of botanicals. The medical notes include an account of his treatment of a man with smallpox in 1815, and entries on patients he inoculated with cowpox matter. Another entry dated in 1796 provides instructions from the Massachusetts Humane Society for "treatment to be used with persons apparently dead from drowning," which included blowing tobacco smoke in the victim's lungs and applying warm blankets for several hours. Appleton adds a note questioning whether or not the lungs also should be "often artificially inflated." There is additionally a history of prominent physicians dating from ancient Greece.

al- ʻAḍb al-Yamānī fī al-radd ʻan Shaykhinā Sīdī Aḥmad al-Tijānī

li-Ab�� al-ʻAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Qāḍī al-ʻAlawī nasaban al-Tijānī ṭarīqan al-Shinjīṭī ; bi-taṣḥīḥ Ab�� ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Jannūn.

Kitāb al-Jaysh al-kafīl bi-akhdh al-thaʼr mimman salla ʻalá al-Shaykh al-Tijānī sayf al-inkār

taʼlīf Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr al-Shinjīṭī al-Tashītī ; bi-taṣḥīḥ wa-muqābalat Ab�� ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad Gannūn.

Kitāb al-Wāfī ʻalá madhhab al-Imām Ab�� Ḥanīfah : manuscript, 1334

According to the colophon (f. 245r), copy completed on 20 Ramaḍān 734 AH [May 24, 1334 AD].

Kitāb ʻAjāyib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharāyib al-mawjūdāt : manuscript, [circa 1650-1700]

On wonders of creation.