Medicine
circular, medicine, health & welfare, charity, National Surgical Institute
Indianapolis, IN: June 1, 1869. A circular advertisement for the offices of H. R. Allen, an orthopedic surgeon, oculist and aurist who had a practice in Indianapolis, IN. The advertisement focuses on the solicitation of new patients, particularly the poor and asks the reader to "be so kind as to.....
Price: $95.00
dental health, toothland puppet show, medicine, child welfare
Chicago, IL: Good Teeth Council for Children, INC, 1940. 31 pp. booklet aimed at encouraging primary grade age children to take care of their teeth. The story and the character of Jimmy Chew, a sixth year molar, are based on the Toothland Puppet Show. The booklet starts with a young.....
Price: $75.00
Public Health,Family and Childhood Diseases,Pneumonia
New York, New York: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1921. A guide to preventing and recognizing the symptoms of pneumonia for families and the general public. Mentions measles, influenza, pregnancy and childbirth, and surgical operations where chloroform is given as possible instances that may cause pneumonia. Advises patients to seek a......
Price: $175.00
trade catalogue, general store, medicine
Reading, MA: [1886-1887]. A small booklet which is the catalogue of items sold by Henry W. Plummer, who had a business in Reading, MA where he made and sold a variety of items. According to the catalogue he sold a variety of extracts (flavoring and handkerchief), toilet articles such as.....
Price: $150.00
Sex Education, Public Health, Venereal Diseases
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Department of Health, 1924. Published by the Chicago Department of Health, "Everybody's Problem" aims to educate the general public about the importance of avoiding venereal disease and epidemics. Public health and a duty to one's community is emphasized. Profusely illustrated, the booklet includes images of cherubic children.....
Price: $125.00
Native American History, Kaw Nation, Oklahoma
Washington, D.C. 1885. Typewritten letter from the commissioner of the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Hiram Price, officially appointing L.M. Hutchinson, M.D. as the Physician at Osage and Kaw Agency, "to serve at Kaw reservation, at a compensation of $1200". Price (1814-1901) was commissioner from 1881 until.....
Price: $250.00
Septicemia, New York Department of Corrections
1898. Offprint of the May 1898 issue of the "Medical Examiner", reprinting a paper read before the New York Medico-Surgical Society by Dr. J. Blake White, "Visiting Surgeon to the Department of Correction, New York". Within, White advocates for the use of Viskolein in the treatment of sepsis, pyaemia, and.....
Price: $100.00
Osteopathy, Medicine
Burlington, IA: [1905]. A 2 1/2" x 4" appointment reminder or scheduling card. This particular patient seemingly saw the osteopath three days a week for a prolonged period. Of interest is the Seven Don't on the reverse. They include Don't think and talk about your ailments, Don't over-eat, or eat.....
Price: $50.00
circular, medicine, bronchitis
New York, NY: [1880]. A circular for Fellows' Hypophosphites, a tonic produced by James I. Fellows, meant to help with "some forms of Bronchitis". The circular was directed towards physicians and provided information on dosing. A patient was suppose to increase each dose until they "experiences a slight nervous sensation;.....
Price: $100.00
Quarantine, Epidemiology, Yellow Fever, Medicine, Public Health
Atlanta, Georgia: Jas. P. Harrison & Co., [1879]. A passionately penned pamphlet advocating for swift quarantine measures to be enacted during an outbreak of yellow fever, and calling for other physicians to share research with colleagues: "... it behooves every medical man South, who has had personal experience in the.....
Price: $200.00
social & cultural, a few good books, science & technology, pathognomy, phrenology, physiognomy
Chicago, IL & New York, NY: Rand McNally & Company, 1920. A book describing the science of Characterology, and more specifically the sciences of pathognomy, phrenology, physiognomy (definitions below), whose full title is: Characterology; An Exact Science Embracing Physiognomy, Phrenology, and Pathognomy, Reconstructed, Amplified and Amalgamated and Including View Concerning.....
Price: $150.00
manuscripts, unpublished, medicine, educational
Cambridge, MA: [1934-1942]. A collection of materials relating to the unpublished manuscript entitled "Operating Room Technique", written by Louis H. Nason, M.D. (1906-1994) a surgeon at Beth Israel Hospital, and professor at Harvard Medical School. The materials appear to cover at least two different early drafts of the book, with.....
Price: $450.00
Pseudocyesis, False Pregnancy, Phantom Pregnancy, Psychology, Medical Research
Bloomington, Indiana: The Principia Press, Inc., c.1937. A prospectus for a monograph on Pseudocyesis, or false pregnancy, published in 1937 by The Principia Press. Women who appear to be pregnant and exhibit all of the same signs and symptoms, but do not carry a fetus, are described to have Pseudocyesis.....
Price: $175.00
Public Health,Birth Control and Family Planning,Pregnancy,Birth Control Methods,Sex Education,Planned Parenthood
Baltimore, Maryland: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1950. An early Planned Parenthood publication, offering common options for contraception for couples in 1950. Published primarily for family planning advisors and medical practitioners, but written in a concise and accessible way for the general public to understand as well. Includes detailed anatomical.....
Price: $250.00
Sebre Gustin Jr, Chelsea Vermont, Dentistry, Dental Surgery
Hangover, NH: Kimball's Dartmouth Press, c 1845-67. A 15" x 12" boardside printed on orange stock bordered in decoratiave elements. Sebre Gustin, Jr. of Chelsea, Vt. wished to advertise that he had recently opened rooms and was willing to provide home visits for interested patients. There are two blank spaces.....
Price: $225.00
Tobacco, Cultural Appropriation
Hartford, Connecticut: E.G. Lewis & Co., 1890. An illustrated 1890 advertising booklet for South American Corrocco Tablets, a product that purports to counteract bad breath from smoking and the effects of nicotine: "Do not swear off smoking, when you can smoke to your heart's content. Dissolve a 'Corrocco' tablet on.....
Price: $100.00
sex education, gender roles, sexually transmitted disease, governmental, religion
Great Britain: 1923. This grouping contains four booklets from the series entitled "Sex Problems", and provides sexual education on a variety of topics. The booklets are eight pages long and were written by a "T. P. S." in 1923, and promote a "Clean Sex Life both before and after marriage".....
Price: $200.00
Consumption, Tuberculosis, Hebron Maine, Health and Welfare
Portland, ME: Tucker Printing Company, 1905. The booklet is intended to give an introduction to the Maine Sanatorium in the Greenwood Mountains of Herbron, Maine. The Sanatorium was established for the treatment and cure of people with pulmonary diseases, specifically tuberculosis. There is a brief history of the Sanatorium, as.....
Price: $100.00
Sex Education,Marriage,Public Health,,Romance and Gender,The American Family,Puberty,Gender in America,Venereal Disease
Chicago, Illinois: American Medical Association, 1948. A scarce set of six (6) sex education booklets in their original slipcase, published together by the American Medical Association and originally penned by the psychologist Thurman B. Rice, M.D. in the 1930s. Covers topics ranging from how to answer young children's questions about.....
Price: $725.00
Medicine, Health & Welfare, Cancer, chemotherapy, chemo, schools & universities, University of Bristol, Bristol Royal Infirmary
New York, NY: Anglo-French Drug Company, 1926. The booklet provides a brief summary of the human clinical trials conducted at the Bristol Royal Infirmary at the University of Bristol in England, under the control of Dr. Todd, to study the effects of lead selenide as a chemotherapy treatment in those.....
Price: $150.00
advertising, business history, circular, medicine, epilepsy
New York, NY: W. J. Pell, 1898. A advertising leaflet for the illustrated book entitled "Epilepsy Explained: A Practical Treatise on Epilepsy and Allied Diseases of the Nervous System, Their Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment" by W. H. May, M. D. The small flyer was printed by the book's new York.....
Price: $85.00
Telepathy, Hypnotism, Personality, Psychology, Magnetic Healing, Alternative Medicine
Los Angeles, California: The Paty Co., 1932. Vol. IV of "a course of instruction in five volumes consisting of 41 lessons on the science of telepathy" (title-page). This volume contains lessons 26 through 33: "Direct Telepathy in Business"; "Advancement Through Telepathy"; "Telepathy and Character Reading"; "Judging the Subject"; "Resume of.....
Price: $200.00