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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Roscious P. Thomas Medical School Notebooks #HC0064, Rare Book Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Gail Burchfiel in memory of her father, Thomas Hardy Darden, DDS, October 2006 (Acc. 200608).

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Processed by: Dawne Howard Lucas, September 2019

Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, September 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Medical education--Virginia--History.
• Thomas, Roscious P. (1845-1916).
• University of Virginia. Department of Medicine.
• University of Virginia. School of Medicine.

Roscious P. Thomas (1845-1916) was born in Hertford County, N.C. He attended Wake Forest College, the University of Virginia, and the Medical University of New York. After completing his medical education, Thomas returned to Hertford County. He married Mary Mitchell in 1878. The Dr. Roscius P. and Mary Mitchell Thomas House and Outbuildings, also known as the Ruth Thomas Home Farm, is located in Hertford County and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

This collection consists of two notebooks kept by Roscious P. Thomas, a white medical student, while taking classes at the University of Virginia, circa 1870. The vast majority of the notes appear to be from 1870.