A clarion call for anti-slavery action by women, with arguments to persuade reluctant women of the necessity of participating in the abolitionist cause, with mention made of contemporary anti-slavery literature. First edition. Founded in 1834 by Maria Weston Chapman (1806–1885), three of her sisters, and eight other women, the.....
An early promotional pamphlet for a hernial truss, featuring a folding-plate of the patented apparatus and directions for use. A prominent and influential doctor in New York, Amos G. Hull (1775–1835) was a pioneer physician, surgeon and inventor of the “Patent Hinge Truss,” for the treatment of Prolapsus Uteri. Hull.....
A poetic eulogy for the murdered student Josie Langmaid, also relating the circumstances of her horrific death as well as a description of the public memorial created for her. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke.....
Woolsey’s scarce and moving account of her relief work and nursing at Gettysburg for three weeks subsequent to the conflict, published shortly afterwards. Woolsey traveled from Baltimore to Gettysburg with her mother at the time of the battle. Here they assisted in caring for soldiers of both armies and.....