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![A.W. Scott, Magnetic Healer and Test Medium ... Boston ... [trade card]. A W. Scott](/pictures/thumb/3728520_1.jpg?v=1554937770)
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..... Read More about A.W. Scott, Magnetic Healer and Test Medium ... Boston ... [trade card
![Women’s Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des...](/pictures/thumb/3725799_1.jpg?v=1534362322)
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..... Read More about Women’s Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des...
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..... Read More about Introductory Lecture by C. Bentley Matthews, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics...
![Patent Medicine:] The Codes of Medical Ethics…and Advertiser. A. M. C. Henri Leonard, compiler,...](/pictures/thumb/3726732_1.jpg?v=1534362452)
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..... Read More about Patent Medicine:] The Codes of Medical Ethics…and Advertiser
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...... Read More about The Negro Professional Man and the Community. With Special Emphasis on the Physician and the Lawyer
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..... Read More about Memorial of D. L. Dix, Praying a grant of land for the relief and support of the indigent curable...
Unrecorded homeopathic medical tract—whose title roughly translates as “Rules of Conduct during a Homeopathic Treatment.” It was written by Dr. Arthur Lutze (1813–1870), an important..... Read More about Verhaltungsregeln während einer Homöopathischen Kur [Rules of Conduct during a Homeopathic...
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..... Read More about An Inaugural Essay on the Mutual Subserviencies of the Different Parts of the Body, And the power...
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... Read More about Humphreys’ Manual for the Administration of Medicine and Treatment of Disease
Advertising broadside for an American-invented “baby jumper” or children’s hanging exercise apparatus designed to safely entertain “…in a manner highly conducive to health, and calculated..... Read More about Patent Elastic Infant Gymnasium, or Baby Jumper [opening lines of broadside
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)... Read More about Solicitor General and Acting U.S. Attorney General Henry M. Hoyt Officially Opines on Medical...
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..... Read More about Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects
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..... Read More about Über die Epilepsie und das Fortpflanzungsgeschäft des Weibes in Ihren Gegenseitigen...
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... Read More about Introductory Lecture to the Winter Course of Instruction in the Philadelphia College of Medicine,...
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... Read More about Introductory Lecture, delivered at the Winter Session of the Philadelphia College of Medicine....
![A Sketch of the Life and Character of Dr. John D. Godman [Two variant editions]. John Davidson...](/pictures/thumb/3725613_1.jpg?v=1534362313)
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... Read More about A Sketch of the Life and Character of Dr. John D. Godman [Two variant editions
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..... Read More about 1860 Autograph Souvenir of Hungarian Exile, Yale Graduate, Directing African-American Troops in...
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... Read More about An Inaugural Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions upon the Body, in the Production and...
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... Read More about Partly-Printed “Daily Journal for 1856”, kept by Joseph Sheppard M.D., likely of New Jersey,...
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..... Read More about L.G. Grund Co. Botanic Medicine Group
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... Read More about In Memoriam, Martin Deschere, July 21, 1902 [cover title of a manuscript memorial album for a New...
Martin Luther Holbrook (1831-1902) was a 19th century medical doctor, a health reformer, and follower of the vegetarian creed. He authored, and published under his... Read More about 1887 Martin Luther Holbrook, Vegetarian and Health Reformer, Autograph Manuscript Quotation Signed
Four c.1910s–1920s illustrated booklets on such medical conditions as whooping cough, influenza & measles etc., obesity, and dental health. The purpose of the booklets, issued..... Read More about Whooping Cough; Good Teeth; “Just a Cold?” Or— [and] Overweight [four hygiene booklets
Manuel Carvallo Causten (1841–1878) inscribed his name inside this medical sammelband: “M. C. Causten, City of Washington, M[ar]ch 1858.” Three years later and after medical..... Read More about Medical Sammelband owned by Dr. M. C. Causten of Washington, D.C. of two French texts: an...
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It took Mrs. Lorenzo D. W_____ only three typed pages to describe her 18-year marriage. In short, she married an alcoholic lout. [Nb., surname redacted... Read More about Two Legal Documents with Testimony concerning the Marriage of Lorenzo D. W_____ and his Spouse
