Starting with the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) graduating class of 2002, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library and YSM Office of Student Research have collaborated on the Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library (YMTDL) project, publishing the digitized full text of medical student theses on the web as a valuable byproduct of Yale student research efforts. The digital thesis deposit has been a graduation requirement since 2006. Starting in 2012, alumni of the Yale School of Medicine were invited to participate in the YMTDL project by granting scanning and hosting permission to the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, which digitized the Library’s print copy of their thesis or dissertation. A grant from the Arcadia Fund in 2017 provided the means for digitizing over 1,000 additional theses. IF YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE YALE COMMUNITY AND NEED ACCESS TO A THESIS RESTRICTED TO THE YALE NETWORK, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR VPN (VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK) IS ON.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1849
Dissertation on dysentery, Gaylord G. Bissell
Dissertation on dysentery, Samuel Hall Catlin
Dissertation on the application of chemistry to medicine, James Chauncey Donaghe
Dissertation on intermittent fever, Lucius Dwight Isham
Dissertation on pleurisy, Silas Foster Lindsey
Dissertation on general etiology, Roger Smith Olmstead
Dissertation on pneumonitis, Moses Harrison Perkins
Dissertation on morbus coxarius, William Henry Sage
Dissertation on aneurism, Austin Denison Shoemaker
Dissertation on delirium tremens, Daniel Meigs Webb
Dissertation on ship fever, George Steele Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1848
Dissertation on the specific nature of inflammation, George Washington Benedict
Dissertation on the character and duties of the physician, John Adams Betts
Dissertation on the respiratory nerves, William Lathrop Bliss
Dissertation on phthisis, Benjamin Franklin Bradford
Dissertation on laryngismus stridulus, George Elliot Budington
Dissertation on apoplexia temulenta, Nathan Bulkley
Dissertation on traumatic tetanus, Marcus De Forest
Dissertation on tubercle, Philander Phelps Humphrey
Dissertation on the inhalation of ether, Lebbeus Eaton Marsh
Dissertation on tubercular phthisis, Elisha Smith Peck
Dissertation on percussion and auscultation as applied to pneumonia, Levi Peck
Dissertation on intermittent fever, Henry Clinton Porter
Dissertation on tubercle, Munson Abijah Shepard
Dissertation on medicine as a science, John Quincy Smith
Dissertation on necrosis, Edward Brown Sprowl
Dissertation on cynanche trachealis, Granville Taylor
Dissertation on civil and military surgery, Sigemond Waterman
Valedictory address: notice of some of the difficulties of the study of medicine, Henry Adams Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1847
Dissertation on uterine hemorrhage after delivery, Timothy Phelps Beers Jr.
Dissertation on delirium tremens, Ebenezer Banks Belden
Dissertation on croup, Edwin Curtis Bidwell
Dissertation on necrosis, William Rufus Blakeman
Dissertation on scarlatina, David John Chubbuck
Dissertation on nicotiana tabacum, Charles Cullen Cone
Dissertation on the contra-indications of mercury, Nathaniel Bowen Cooke
Dissertation on scarlatina, Thomas Cuddeback
Dissertation on tumors of the abdomen, John Deacon
Dissertation on inflammation, Seth Porter Ford
Dissertation on typhous fever, Isaac Shafer Hunt
Dissertation on traumatic hysteria, Graham Lee
Dissertation on aneurism, Frederick Oscar Leffingwell
Dissertation on parturition, Samuel Erskine Maynard
Dissertation on empiricism, Alfred Patten Monson
Dissertation on the quack and his medicine, James O'Reilly
Dissertation on scirrho-cancer of the female breast, Charles Henry Rogers
Dissertation on inflammation, Augustus Sammis
Dissertation on sympathetic action, Charles Smith Shelton
Dissertation on vis vita, William Edward Sparrow
Dissertation on scrofula, John Boardman Trask
Dissertation on cynanche trachealis, John Luman Wakefield
Dissertation on pulmonary hemorrhage, William Henry Williams
Dissertation on intermittent fever, Albert Brownell Worthington
Theses/Dissertations from 1846
Dissertation on eclampsia parturientium, Josiah Hall Beecher
Dissertation on the teeth, Jacob Thompson Buckley
Dissertation on scrofula, Judson Candee
Dissertation on homoeopathy, William Augustus Durrie
Dissertation on yellow fever, Joseph Bailey Elliott
Dissertation on iodine, Samuel Augden Hills
Dissertation on follicular inflammation of the pharynx, John Wesley Hubbell
Dissertation on the anatomy and treatment of inguinal and scrotal hernia, Prosper Kimball Hutchinson
Dissertation on puerperal mania, George Whitfield Ives
Dissertation on intestinal worms, Job Kenyon
Dissertation on spontaneous hemorrhage, Jeremiah King
Dissertation on the modus operandi of medicines, DeWitt Clinton Lathrop
Dissertation on phytolacca decandra, Joseph Josiah Meigs
Dissertation on croup, Edwin Avery Park
Dissertation on apoplexy, Seth Pease
Dissertation on the beautiful adaptation of man's physical system to the natural world, Frederick William Perry
Dissertation on hydrocephalus, Samuel Wolcott Skinner
Valedictory address on the qualifications of the accomplished physician, Nathaniel William Taylor
Dissertation on bloodletting, Charles Thomas
Dissertation, "sana mens, in sano corpore.", Sylvester Wooster Turner
Dissertation on varicose veins, Andrew Judson White
Theses/Dissertations from 1845
Dissertation on remittent fever, James Austin
Dissertation on the demerits of empiricism, Gardner Barlow
Dissertation on puerperal fever, Edward McEwen Beardsley
Dissertation on medical chemistry, Joseph Edgar Clark
Valedictory address: the comprehensive nature of medicine, as a science, & the means, necessary for its successful practice., Robert Wasson Forbes
Dissertation on the importance of the general diffusion of elementary medical education, Benjamin Maltby Fowler
Dissertation on the foetal circulation, Hiram Holt Loomis
Dissertation on ophthalmia, William Henry Rossell
Dissertation on necrosis, John Hansen Thompson
Dissertation on scarlatina, Edward Goodrich Ufford
Dissertation on scrofula, Enoch Tenney Winter
Theses/Dissertations from 1844
Dissertation on the advantages of general science to the physician, Garwood Hervey Atwood
Dissertation on rubeola, Nehemiah Banks
Dissertation on the pathology of drunkenness, Edwin Curtis Bidwell
Dissertation on the importance of correct diagnosis, Nathan Taylor Bliven
Dissertation on the importance of correct diagnosis., Nathan Taylor Bliven
Valedictory address [on the duties of the young physician.], Abner Hartwell Brown
Dissertation on animal heat, digestion and motion-not chemical action, Henry Lewellen Burritt
Dissertation on general diagnosis, Henry Eugene Dibble
Dissertation on lithotrity, Christopher Smith Fenner
Dissertation on chorea, Gershom Clark Gilbert
Dissertation on scarlatina, Norman Knox Johnson
Dissertation on cynanche trachealis, William Frederick Lacey
Dissertation on the true philosophy of medicine, Austin Lord
Dissertation on variola, William Strickler McCorkle
Dissertation on iodine, George Anson Moody