Quarter bills, 1797

Four printed quarter bills for Loammi Baldwin dated February 23, 1797, May 25, 1797, August 24, 1797, and November 23, 1797.

L.B.'s letter respecting excuse to president of College, 1797 August 31

Brief handwritten note to Loammi Baldwin from his son requesting a written excuse to be sent to the Harvard President for his absence on election day.

Absence notes, 1797-1800

Five short handwritten notes from Loammi Baldwin to the Harvard Faculty excusing his son for absences from College. The excuses were written on September 9, 1797 for sickness; September 23, 1797; February 10, 1798; February 19, 1799 due to the illness of Mrs. Baldwin; and March 23, 1800 due to weather.

Letters from Samuel Davis to William Tudor,

Three letters regarding Tudor’s literary works.

Thugut, Clerfayt und Wurmser : Original-Documente aus dam K.K. Haushof-und Staats-Archiv und dem K.K. Kriegs-Archiv in Wein vom Juli 1794 bis Februar 1797 /

Most of the letters are in French.

Correspondances du siècle dernier : un projet de mariage du duc d'Orléans (1836) Lettres de Léopold Ier de Belgique a Adolphe Thiers (1836-1864) Documents inédits publiés avec des avertissements et des notes /

Editor's autograph presentation copy to Arthur Chuquet.

Interviste : Gladstone, Chamberlain, Cecil Rhodes, Lord Dufferin, Edwin Booth, F. Douglass, Jefferson Davis e Booker T. Washington, "Ape," Salisbury /

Mode of access: Internet.

A poem recited before the citizens of Edgartown, July 4, 1836, being the sixtieth anniversary of American independence.

Mode of access: Internet.

Centennial, 1836-1936.

Mode of access: Internet.

The life and adventures of Olaudah Equiano; or Gustavus Vassa, the African. : From an account written by himself. /

"Juvenile books, published by Samuel Wood & Sons, New York.": page [4] of cover.

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. /

Volume 1: "A list of subscribers": pages [2]-[16] (2nd count); "Errata" slip pasted on blank page [17] (2nd count).

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano; or Gustavus Vassa, the African. /

Text continuous (despite pagination).

An 18th century understanding of migraine - Samuel Tissot (1728-1797)

During the period 1778-1780 the Swiss physician Samuel A A D Tissot (1728-1797) published his Traite des nerfs et de leur maladies, a work which continued to be available and widely influential until at least the middle of the following century. It contained a long chapter dealing with migraine, based on the earlier literature on the topic and on Tissot's own clinical experience. The work appeared at the beginning of the modern era of interest in migraine, and provided the first reasonably adequate and systematic account of the disorder to become widely available. Its descriptions of migraine phenomena have an enduring validity, though Tissot's ideas on the pathogenesis of the disorder, viz. that it usually arose from stomach disturbance, were not founded on satisfactory evidence and are long since superseded. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.