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 1844
Dissertation on the use of narcotics in the treatment of insanity, Francis Allyn Olmsted
Dissertation on the present phases of empiricism, Sidney Williams Rockwell
Dissertation on Helianthemum Corymbosum et Canadense, David Atwater Tyler
Dissertation on hydrocele, Charles Lewis Uhlhorn
Dissertation on congestive bilious fever, Lucius Clark Walton
Dissertation on typhous fever, John Freme Wells
Dissertation on phymosis, William Joseph Whiting
Dissertation on moral influence in the treatment of disease, William Woodbridge
Dissertation on scarlatina, Asa Curtis Woodward
Theses/Dissertations from 1843
Dissertation on pathological and physiological action, William Coley Betts
Dissertation on hydrocele, William Richards Boardman
Dissertation on diabetes mellitus, William Edmond Booth
Dissertation on gonorrhea, Joseph Rowland Brisco
Dissertation on iritis, Linus Pierpont Brockett
Dissertation on the pulse., William Augustus Bronson
Dissertation on melancholia, George Whiting Burke
Dissertation on inflammation, William Taylor Clark
Dissertation on scarlatina, Alfred Washington Coats
Dissertation on menstruation, Elias Franklin Coats
Valedictory address [on the history of medicine.], Robert Crane
Dissertation on the therapeutical application of ice, David Lewis Daggett
Dissertation on the want of principles in medicine, and the difficulties of medical investigation, David Hughes
Dissertation on dysentery, Monroe Judson
Dissertation on the true character of medical science, Samuel Harper Lea
Dissertation on apoplexy, George Page
Dissertation on pleuritis, George Edwin Perkins
Dissertation on phloridzin, Charles Barnes Whittlesey
Theses/Dissertations from 1842
Syphilis - or the - Venereal Disease., David Fisher Atwater
Amaurosis : a general review of its causes, symptoms, and treatment, Eli Whitney Blake
Dissertation on the Importance of Properly Investigating, Discriminating, and Judging, in the Practice of Medicine., Horace Burr
Dissertation on uterine Hemorrhage, Otis Cooper
Dissertation on Intermittent Fever, Philo Nichols Curtis
Dissertation on The injurious effects of modern dietetic principles, arising from the stimulating qualities of our diet, William Mark Curtiss
Dissertation on insanity., Joel Fuller Erving
Dissertation on the powers of Medicinal Agents - their individuality, combinations, peculiarities, modes of management, etc., Alonzo Fuller
Dissertation on Scarlatina., Samuel Brown Fuller
Dissertation On Arsenous Acid, William Henry Goode
Dissertation on Colic, Edwin Everett Gordon
Dissertation on the causes of disease, Ashbel Bradford Haile
Dissertation on The Importance of a Correct Diagnosis, Roswell Hawley
Dissertation on the diagnostics between phlogosis phlegmonea and phlogosis erythematica., Jacob Thompson Hotchkiss
Dissertation on iodine, John Tyler Lillibridge
Dissertation on empiricism, Edward Phelps Lyman
Dissertation on counter-irritation., Fenner Harris Peckham
Dissertation on bronchocele, William Tempest
Dissertation on the unity of the organic system, James Davenport Whelpley
Dissertation on Phthisis Pulmonalis, Levi Dibble Wilcoxson