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A.W. Scott, Magnetic Healer and Test Medium ... Boston ... [trade card].
Trade card for Mr. A.W. Scott of Boston, spiritualist and “magnetic healer.” From his Washington Street establishment, Scott offered “Hot Salt Baths for Cure of.....
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Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Alcoholism, Autism, Botanic Medicine, Diseases, Health and Hygiene, Homeopathy, Human Sexuality, Hydrotherapy, Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Nursing, Patent Medicine, Pharmaceutical, Phrenology, Physical Culture, Psychology, Quackery, Receipts and Remedies, Temperance, Etc.
Art of Massage.
A thinly-clad smiling woman, bosom exposed, graces the cover of this curious patent medicine booklet. Targeted at women, the product of the day was Dr...
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[Women’s Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des weiblichen Vereins für Armen und Krankenpflege…
This pamphlet on nursing and charity work by German philanthropist and social reformer Amalie Sieveking (1794–1859) reports on the activities of the Weiblichen Vereins für.....
Introductory Lecture by C. Bentley Matthews, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania ... Delivered November 4, 1850. Published by the Class.
Introductory lecture to an 1850 course of homeopathic medical studies by C. Bentley Matthews, M.D., i.e., Caleb Bentley Matthews, (1801?-1851). Dr. Matthews was Professor of.....
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[Patent Medicine:] The Codes of Medical Ethics…and Advertiser.
Compilation by a Detroit medical publisher, Dr. C. Henri Leonard, of medical codes of ethics for the American Medical Association, the American Institute of Homœpathy.....
The Negro Professional Man and the Community. With Special Emphasis on the Physician and the Lawyer.
Reprinted from the original 1934, Carter Goodwin Woodson’s title of the same. In his Negro Professional Man and the Community, Woodson wanted to provide a......
Memorial of D. L. Dix, Praying a grant of land for the relief and support of the indigent curable and incurable insane in the United States [caption title].
Famed humanitarian crusader for the mentally ill Dorothea Dix’s 1848 petition to Congress suggesting they use the taxes of specific land parcels to care for.....
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The Herrick Perforated Capsicum Plaster [caption title; with original product sample].
Illustrated medical advertising circular for “The Herrick Perforated Capsicum Plaster” prepared for Dr. Herrick’s Family Medicine Co. of St. Louis, Missouri. Remarkably, the circular is.....
War Correspondence. (Hispano-American War). Letters from Dr. Nicholas Senn Chief Surgeon U.S. Volunteers… [Presentation Copy]
Medical observations on the Spanish-American War by noted American medical author and surgeon, Dr. Nicholas Senn (1844–1908). Dr. Senn served in the in the field...
Patent Parabola Spectacles…affording altogether the best artificial Help to the Human Vision… [opening lines of broadsheet]
Stunning 1860 broadsheet circular printed in two colors advertising eyeglasses with “concavo-convex ellipsis” lenses patented by Edward Bohrek of Philadelphia. Advantages of these lenses were.....
An Inaugural Essay on the Mutual Subserviencies of the Different Parts of the Body, And the power of one part to perform the Function of Another.
Presentation Copy from the Author. Doctoral dissertation by physician Edwin M’Call, from the southern state of Georgia, submitted to the trustees and medical faculty of.....
Humphreys’ Manual for the Administration of Medicine and Treatment of Disease.
Patent medicine trade catalog comprising an exhaustive list of diseases and medical conditions, including their symptoms, all curable with tablets, pellets, liquids etc. manufactured by...
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Infantile Paralysis: Notice From Board of Health [caption title].
A small circular stating that, as of August 27, 1916, children of sixteen years of age or younger are legally prevented from entering the town...
[Galley Proofs of Gray’s Anatomy with Heavy Editorial Annotations for the 1910 American Revised Edition].
Printer’s galley sheets for the 1910 American revised edition of Gray’s Anatomy, the classic, illustrated medical anatomy text by British surgeon Henry Gray (1826/7–1861). In.....
[Solicitor General and Acting U.S. Attorney General Henry M. Hoyt Officially Opines on Medical Issues of Immigration Law and an Immigration Case before the Supreme Court; with Additional Letter].
Three letters, all incoming to Philadelphia attorney J. Whitaker Thompson, United States attorney. The bulk of the material is from Henry Martyn Hoyt, Jr. (1856–1910)...
Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects.
Practical information on sexuality and sexual diseases for men and women including how to avoid the, “direst evils of a sexual nature.” In the Preface.....
Über die Epilepsie und das Fortpflanzungsgeschäft des Weibes in Ihren Gegenseitigen Beziehungen. Eine Historisch-Kritische und Klinische Untersuchung.
German-language medical treatise on epilepsy, gynecology, and obstetrics by Dr. Hermann Nerlinger, medical assistant at a sanatarium in Pforzheim in southern Germany. Entitled Über die.....
Introductory Lecture to the Winter Course of Instruction in the Philadelphia College of Medicine, Delivered on Monday, at 5 O’Clock P.M., October 14, 1850.
Text of a lecture delivered by Dr. James McClintock, Professor of Surgery and Anatomy at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. As the animal machine, although...
Introductory Lecture, delivered at the Winter Session of the Philadelphia College of Medicine. November, 1847.
Text of a lecture delivered by Dr. Jesse R. Burden, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. Burden urged the...
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A Sketch of the Life and Character of Dr. John D. Godman [Two variant editions].
Upon the death of Dr. John D. Godman, the Quakers of Philadelphia memorialized him as a Christian philosopher. Godman was remembered as a naturalist, encyclopedist...
1860 Autograph Souvenir of Hungarian Exile, Yale Graduate, Directing African-American Troops in the Civil War.
An autograph souvenir from Joseph J. Hatlinger, a self-proclaimed “Hungarian Exile.” During the Civil War, Hatlinger, as a first lieutenant, would direct African-Americans serving in.....
An Inaugural Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Body, in the Production and Cure of Diseases [Presentation Copy]
Doctoral dissertation by Philadelphia physician and surgeon Joseph Parrish (1779–1840), submitted to the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Parrish here investigates...
Partly-Printed “Daily Journal for 1856”, kept by Joseph Sheppard M.D., likely of New Jersey, with entries dated 1855–1858, 1867, 1871, 1883, and 1893.
An interesting example of a daily journal with pre-printed date entries for 1856, but which has been used by the diarist over a span of...
[L.G. Grund Co. Botanic Medicine Group].
A 20-page pamphlet with a small group of ephemera issued by L.G. Grund Co. of Philadelphia, wholesale buyers of medicinal roots, barks, herbs, leaves, seeds.....
In Memoriam, Martin Deschere, July 21, 1902 [cover title of a manuscript memorial album for a New York Homeopathic Physician].
Memorial or mourning album commemorating the life and death of German-American homeopathic physician Martin Deschere (1848–1902) of New York City. The album includes tributes and...