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.....
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...