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Dr. Jack Lynch Gift to the Health Sciences Library -- August 2003
Dr. Jack Lynch of Wilmington, North Carolina, recently donated a number of medical texts and other valuable books to the Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Lynch entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1936, graduating in the class of 1940. He then attended the University’s two-year medical school from 1940-1942. He remembers that he was reading Goodman and Gillman, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (1941 edition) in the library at Carolina when he heard the announcement about the attack on Pearl Harbor; he remembers making a notation about the attack in the margin of his book. After graduating from medical school at Carolina, he went on to receive his M.D. degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
After medical school he served in the US Navy Medical Corps from 1944-1945 and then took pediatric training in St. Louis and at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He returned to North Carolina and joined the practice of Drs. "Brick" Saunders and Kenneth Geddie at The Infant and Child Clinic in High Point.
Books recently donated to the Health Sciences Library by Dr. Jack Lynch include:
- The People’s Common Sense Medical Advisor In Plain English, 1895 (56th ed), by Ray Vaughan Pierce.
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Dr. Ray Vaughan Pierce graduated from medical school in 1862 and practiced in Buffalo NY. He opened the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo in the early 1870’s and began distributing a range of patent medicines throughout the United States. He also opened the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute where people came for treatment. The hospital had a staff of at least 15 doctors, and Dr. Pierce practice surgery as well as dispensing medicine. The People’s Common Sense Advisor had many editions (note our edition is listed as the 56th). It was basically an encyclopedia for home health, with information on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis of common illnesses, personal hygiene and a pharmacopoeia of herbs with medicinal uses. The book also contains testimonials and self-promotional information for Dr. Pierce’s remedies and hospital.
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- Yackety Yack ’40, Issued for the 25th Silver Anniversary Reunion of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Class of 1940, edited by Jack F. Lynch, Jr.
It was common for a class to issue an updated graduation listing as a part of a 25th class reunion, but only a few of these updated class lists are owned by the university. This publication updates the information for the graduating class of 1940. “Co-eds are listed alphabetically under the names used while college with a cross-reference listing of married names.” Dr. Lynch’s own entry reads:
| | Holding a ’44 MD degree from Jefferson Medical College, Jack has been a pediatrician in High Point for 17 years. Married Betty Simmons, ’46 UNC, of Rocky Mount, N.C. in 1950. Children: John III,14; Logan 12 (girl), Thomas 10, Sally 5. Hobbies are civic work and farming. In USNR-MC ’44-45, lt (jg) to lt., Pacific. Has gained 20 pounds, 4 inches. Hair 100% intact. Entered [UNC] from Erwin N.C. |
- A Country Doctor in the South Mountains, by Benjamin Earle Washburn; illustrated by John Pike. Asheville, N.C.: The Stephens Press, 1955.
Dr. Washburn’s account of life as a physician in the hill country of Rutherford County of North Carolina where he practiced medicine from 1912-1913 after graduating from medical school at the University of Virginia and London University. In addition to describing health conditions and giving the names that hill people use for illnesses and some of the herbs and home remedies, he also describes life in the hills and some of the interesting people he met there such as the master banjo picker.
In 1913, Dr. Washburn joined the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission campaign against hookworm. Later he was health officer in Nash County and organized the Bureau of County Health Work for North Carolina. In the 1920’s and 1930’s he worked with the Rockefeller Foundation in Central and South America. He retired to North Carolina and was closely involved with the North Carolina Good Health Association and the Governor’s Committee on Hospitals and Medical Care. Dr. Washburn wrote a number of other books about North Carolina. - Lectures on Midwifery and the Forms of Disease Peculiar to Women and Children, Delivered to the Members of the Botanico-Medical College of Ohio, by A. Curtis, President of the College and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Lecturer on Anatomy, Physiology, Botany and Chemistry and Editor of the Botanico-Medical Recorder. 2nd rev edition. Columbus, OH, 1841.
Physician Alva Curtis (1797-1881) was attracted to the ideas of Samuel Thomson whose theory of health and illness was based on restoring the body heat using herbs, emetics, enemas baths and purgatives. This movement was called Thomsonism and had a strong following in the 19th century. Thomsonism proposed returning the rights of health self-determination to the common person, and was against bloodletting and mercury treatments, which were standards of this period. Curtis favored much of Thomsonism and was responsible for spreading the theories by editing several of Thomson’s journals, but Curtis also wanted to integrate new scientific discoveries and the study of anatomy and physiology into the training of Thomsonian practitioners. This was unacceptable to Thomson and a schism occurred between Thomson and the “New Light” Thomsonians or the physiomedicalists. Curtis became one of the major practitioners of physiomedicine and went on to found the Botanico-Medical College in Cincinnati where graduates were trained in both the basic Thomsonian therapeutics, herbal materia medica, and the sciences such as biology, chemistry, anatomy and physiology. - University of Pennsylvania, at a Medical Commencement, held March 21st, 1829...
This commencement program lists those receiving the Degree of Doctor of Medicine and the subject of their theses. Graduates in 1829 included six “Gentlemen” from North Carolina. Their theses are held at the University of Pennsylvania.
| Graduate’s Name | | Subject of Thesis |
| Michael D. Donnellan | | Effects of Cold |
| Milo A. Giles | | Syphilis |
| William P. Morgan | | Small Pox and Causes of Failure in Vaccination |
| Nicholas L. B. Stith | | Dysenteria |
| John Wesley Potts | | Med. Topography, and Autumnal Fever of Washington, N.C. |
| Thomas Davis | | Dysentery |
The program also reports on ceremony for laying of the corner stone of the new Medical Hall, which took place during the commencement and includes the names of the Architect, Stone Cutter, Bricklayer and Carpenter.
- Register of Members, Philanthropic Society, University of North Carolina, 1795-1887, edited by Stephen B. Weeks, M.A., (Class of 1886). Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co, Power Printers and Binders, 1887.
The University of North Carolina Philanthropic Society was founded in August 1795, with the goal of improving its members debating and speaking skills and the cultivation of moral and social values. The Society had a major book collection for its members. In 1886 the book collection was given to the University and this (along with the library of the Dialectic Society) formed the basis of the University’s current library. This substantial pamphlet gives a brief history of the Society and lists members by year, indicating date of death if known, town or county of residence at time of admittance, and when available, military rank, and occupation. A separate listing is given of “all members who fell in the service of the Confederate States” (a total of 135). A “Roll of the Confederate Dead of the Dialectic Society” is also “inserted on the suggestion of President Battle.”
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