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Alcohol and Addiction Studies: A Guide to Resources at Brown
- Davenport Collection
The Davenport Collection, an endowed gift from Dr. James Henry Davenport, containing "books on medical history, medical biography and extra-curricular writings of physicians." It is these extra-curricular writings that give the collection its eclectic flavor. Included are books by physician authors in the fields of history, biography, travel narratives,fiction, poetry and drama, as well as many other works from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (London, 1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Poet at the Breakfast-Table(Boston,1872). Part of the Rhode Island Medical Society Collection.
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- Drowne family papers, 1636-1936 (bulk 1750-1885)
In 1940, the personal library of botanist and physician Dr. Solomon Drowne, Class of 1773, plus over 1,000 documents and letters relating to members of the Drowne family (1770 through 1940) were moved from Mt. Hygeia, Dr. Drowne's home in Foster, Rhode Island, to Brown. This fine example of an 18th century American private library is preserved intact within Special Collections.
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- Albert E. Lownes Collection of Significant Books in the History of Science
In January of 1979, the Collection of Significant Books in the History of Science arrived as a bequest from Albert E. Lownes. His final gift of over 5,000 volumes plus hundreds of prints and manuscripts spanned the centuries of scientific thought from Ptolemy to Einstein. This was one of the three most important private collections of books of science in America and ranks as one of the most significant single collections ever received by the Brown University Library. Its greatest strength and depth is in natural history although its scope embraces significant works in all scientific fields. Lownes defined significance as being "books that have changed the world or man's way of seeing it. Significance also meant books that I found interesting." The collection contains over three-quarters of those texts recognized by scholars as the "great books" of science published since the middle of the 15th century.
Earlier, on the occasion of his 50th reunion, in 1970, Albert E. Lownes presented Brown University with the double elephant folio edition of John J. Audubon's Birds of America (London, 1827-1838),the most significant work of 19th century ornithology. Lownes also donated the library's one millionth item, a copy of Rene Descartes's early work on physiology, De Homine Figuris et Latinitate Donatus a Florentio Schuyl (Leyden, 1662), in 1954.
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- Reitman Pharmacopoeia Collection
1,500 titles related to pharmacopeia; Uncataloged;
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- Rhode Island Medical Society (RIMS) Library
The Rhode Island Medical Society voted in 1982 to donate its library of more than 30,000 volumes to Brown. The more recent books and serials, including journals issued by national and state medical associations, have been added to the Sciences Library to support the University's Program in Medicine.
Two important groups of rare or unusual books collected by the Society in its 175 years are inSpecial Collections. The first is the Davenport Collection, an endowed gift from Dr. James Henry Davenport, containing "books on medical history, medical biography and extra-curricular writings of physicians." It is these extra-curricular writings that give the collection its eclectic flavor. Included are books by physician authors in the fields of history, biography, travel narratives, fiction, poetry and drama, as well as many other works from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (London, 1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (Boston,1872).
The second group comprises the contents of the Society's De Jong Rare Book Room plus titles selected from its general collection. Here are medical classics such as Pliny's Historia Naturale (Venice, 1501), Galen's works (Venice, 1525), Avicenna's Liber Canonis (Venice, 1555), Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Amsterdam, 1642) and works by Celsus, Harvey, Boerhaave, Pare, Morgagni and Osler along with other authoritative texts including the ubiquitous Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical (London, 1858) of Henry Gray.
The general collection includes numerous 18th and 19th century medical tracts published in America from Nicholas Culpeper's Pharmacopoeia Londinensis (Boston, 1720) to the "ether controversy" of the 1850's and beyond. There is also a substantial selection of pamphlets dealing with homeopathy, hydropathy, naturopathy and other less orthodox medical doctrines more frequently practiced in the 19th century.
Also included is the Chapin Collection, from the library of Charles V. Chapin, consisting primarily of Greek and Latin classics in English translation.
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- Saklad Collection of Surgical Anaesthesia
The collection consists of over 300 books and medical society publications which trace the development of anesthesiology from the late 18th century to the middle of the 20th century.
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- Rhode Island Women's Health Collective
The records of the RIWHC include financial, legal, funding, and donor records, mailing lists, newletters and publications relating to women's health issues.
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- Charles Value Chapin Papers
Charles V. Chapin, Class of 1876, was instructor in physiology at Brown from 1882 to 1886 and professor from 1886 to 1895. He held the post of superintendent of health in Providence for forty-eight years. The collection consists of correspondence chiefly with workers in public health in America, Europe, and Australia about Dr. Chapin's work in communicable diseases.
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- Dwight B. Heath Collection
A collection of international "gray literature" (conference papers, proceedings, reports, articles, and the like) pertaining to the topic of cross-cultural patterns of alcohol use and abuse, the principle focus of Prof. Heath's research interests during his years in the Department of Anthropology at Brown.
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- Butler Hospital records, 1840-1892
The Butler Hospital records contain many of the hospital's records from its founding in 1841 to approximately its 50th anniversary in 1891. These records document the changing attitudes toward the mentally ill in Europe and the United States in the early 19th century as well as communal responsibility for the less fortunate, the responsibility of the wealthy for sharing both their wealth and their expertise, the financial practices of the period, detailed specifications on the construction of the first hospital of any kind in Rhode Island, the hospital's expansion, and the day-to-day expenses of such an institution.
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- Patent Medicine Bottle
Consists of over two hundred patent medicine bottles from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, a collection assembled by Dr. David S. Greer, a professor emeritus in the Community Health Department of Brown University's Division of Biology and Medicine. Most of the bottles do not have the original label but are imprinted to reveal the name of the medicine it contained. Medicines include Humphrey's Marvel of Healing; Paine's Celery Compound; Lydia E. Pinkham's Medicine, Fever, and Ague Cure; Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription; Howard's Vegetable Cancer and Canker Syrup; Old Sachem Bitters; J. W. Poland Headache Killer; Three Cow Pine and Elm Brand Cough Syrup; Mother Winslow's Soothing Syrup; Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry; Dr. D. Jayne's Tonic; Thyroid Glands Dessicated; Hiawatha Restorative; Mother Winslow's Soothing Syrup; Piso's Cure; Hamlin's Wizard Oil; Sylphonathol; Kendall's Spavin Cure for Human Flesh; Spleen Dessicated; Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer; Dr. Beeman's Mohawk Liniment; Tubercoloyzyne; and Boericke and Tafel's Homeopathic Family Medicine Case.
Collection also includes color slides of each bottle. Researchers must view these slides before requesting to view specific bottles.
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- Lewis (David C.) papers
The David C. Lewis papers contain information on his efforts to collect historical collections concerning alcoholism, and his work at the local, state and federal level concerning alcoholism and addiction. The collection contains correspondence, legal papers, writings, printed materials, meeting minutes, audiovisual materials and financial papers including appraisals of collections which David Lewis had acquired or was exploring acquiring for the Brown University library.
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