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 1856
Dissertation on concussion & compression, Cyrus Brownlie Newton
Dissertation on injuries of the head, Henry Wheeler Painter
Dissertation on cynanche trachealis, Stephen Franklin Pomeroy
Dissertation on vegetable and animal respiration, James Austin Richards
Dissertation on atmospheric air, considered in its relation to the human system, Christopher Dicran Seropyan
Femoral hernia, Samuel B. Shepard
Theses/Dissertations from 1854
Dissertation on lepra tuberculosa, Burr Reeve Abbe
Dissertation on tetanus, William Orville Ayres
Dissertation on retained placenta, Erastus Bradley Bills
Dissertation on fractures, John Kenney Downes
Dissertation on continued fever, Josiah Griffin Ely
Dissertation on intermittent fever, Horatio Nelson Howard
Dissertation on the cause, duration and termination of disease, John Nicoll
Dissertation on induction of premature labor, Henry Pierpont
Dissertation on digestion, Moses Henry Wakeman
Dissertation on the abuses of opium, Moses Clark White
Theses/Dissertations from 1852
Dissertation on idiopathic and traumatic tetanus, Richard Miles Buell
Dissertation on typhus fever and the valedictory address, James H. Curry
Dissertation on uterine leucorrhoea, Jonathan Edwards Doolittle
Dissertation on cynanche trachealis, Nathaniel Marston Freeman
Dissertation on croup, Pierre Robeau Holly
Dissertation on diagnosis, Charles Augustus Lindsley
Dissertation on anaesthetics, John Shute Moody
Dissertation on inflammation, George Benjamin Parsons
Dissertation on intestinal worms, Samuel Newell Rowell
Dissertation on scarlatina, Welles Hamilton Sellew
Dissertation on carus catalepsia, Zebulon Wanton Thomson
Dissertation on cinchona, Ezequiel Uricoechea
Dissertation on erysipelas, Noah Blakeslee Welton
Dissertation on pneumonitis, Samuel Allen Wilson
Theses/Dissertations from 1851
Dissertation on pneumonia, Warren Parker Beach
Dissertation on pneumonia., George Benedict
Dissertation on scrofula, Orlando Brown
Dissertation on pleurisy, David Silliman Burr
Dissertation on inflammation, Samuel Catlin
Dissertation on emetics, Henry Eddy
Dissertation on apoplexy, Francis Coles Greene
Dissertation on ventilation, Storrs Hall
Dissertation on ophthalmia, Jonathan Jones Howard
Dissertation on bright's disease, Robert Hubbard
Dissertation on uterine hemorrhage after delivery, Matthew Turner Newton
Dissertation on hysteria, William Soule
Theses/Dissertations from 1850
Dissertation on purpura hemorrhagica, Amos Cranmer Blakeslee
Dissertation on asthma, Henry Clinton Bunce
Dissertation of semeiology, Alpheus Bryant Clarke
Dissertation on placenta praevia, Henry Augustus Collins
Dissertation on asiatic cholera, Richard Pierce Evans
Dissertation on variola, Henry Hawley Foote
Dissertation on morbus brightii, Horatio Welles Gridley
Dissertation on erysipelas, Dixon Scipio Hall
Dissertation on pneumonia, Charles Clifford Holcombe
Dissertation on peritonitis, Lewis Raymond Hurlbutt
Dissertation on relations of psychology to medicine, Henry Lobdell Jr.
Dissertation on diet, Henry Wylly Matthews
Dissertation on phthisis, George Hammond Rogers
Dissertation on the leech, Henry Smith
Dissertation on epidemic cholera, Joel Washington Smith
Dissertation on typhus or continued fever, William Cook Williams
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