Two laboratory notebooks, "Experimental Physiology" and "Animal Morphology" for student and eventual Homeopathic Physician Ralph W. Hayman at Boston University School of Medicine in 1902.
[ Boston Massachusetts ]: [ Boston University School of Medicine ] 1902. First Edition. 6 3/4 x 8 inches. Both notebooks have marbled paper covered boards with thin black cloth spines. The spines are worn and partially perished in both cases. "Experimental Physiology" is labeled Ralph W. Hayman, and "Weysse" (the instructor), with dates in October - November 1902. "Animal Morphology" is marked Ralph W. Hayman and "B.U.M.S." on the front, and we find a date in early 1902. The notebooks are entirely in inked and pencilled manuscript, presumably in the hand of Hayman, with occasional teacher comments in Experimental Physiology in red ink. "Physiology" also includes chart printouts pasted into the notebook showing laboratory results. Animal Morphology, is composed entirely of manuscript documentation of dissected plants with notes about their parts with little or no commentary or analysis. Very Good. Boards. [23978]
Arthur W. Weysse was Professor of Experimental Physiology at Boston University School of Medicine and probably taught both courses. That would have put Hayman, the author, on a track as a first year student in Biology at BU. Not surprisingly, we find Dr. Ralph. W. Hayman noted as a prominent homoeopathic physician in "Medical Century A Journal of Homoeopathic Medicine", Vol 18, 1911 as a 1906 "Boston University Man" who worked Thursdays in the The Providence, Rhode Island Dispensary at the Out Patient Department of the Rhode Island Homoeopathic Hospital.
Boston University School of Medicine was founded in 1873. Their 1911/12 general catalog states that "BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE aims to give its students 1) A broad and sound training in the fundamental sciences of medicine 2) A thorough training in the Principles of Homoeopathy 3) Practical training in Materia Medica 4) Special training in Homoeopathic Materia Medica and 5) Special training in Homoeopathic Therapeutics"
These notebooks then document some of the early basics of Dr. Hayman's education in plant physiology and an extensive laboratory course notebook on physiology, the application of electricity (to frog muscle mainly) and it's derived theory in many practical, nicely illustrated pages.
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