(MEDICINE) Pair of notebooks kept by medical student Booker

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(MEDICINE.) Pair of notebooks kept by medical student Booker Taliaferro Holmes at Meharry Medical College. 300, [30] manuscript pages. Folio, matching original calf-tipped buckram, minor wear; minimal wear to contents, slight musty scent; each signed "B.T. Holmes" on front boards. [Nashville, TN], 1944-45

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Booker Taliaferro Holmes (1905-1990) was raised in Virginia and taught science in Maryland before enrolling in Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN at the age of 39. He went on to serve as a general practitioner in Frankfort, KY, as well as the school physician at Kentucky State College there. His wife Helen Fairfax Holmes (1902-1995) became a noted civil rights leader in Kentucky.
These two volumes contain his notes as a medical student at Meharry, one of the nation's most distinguished historically black medical schools. They contain his notes on lectures on anatomy, physiology, and obstetrics given by professors including John R. Cuff, E. Perry Crump, William S. Quinland, Samuel H. Freeman, and Daniel T. Rolfe. Some of the notes are illustrated. The second volume also bears the name and address of a classmate, Philip Lavizzo (1917-1972), who later became one of the first African-American surgeons in the Pacific Northwest. An inside look at the state of medical education during the Second World War.