A scarce pamphlet offering practical advice on uterine and vaginal disorders, and promoting Davis’s Vaginal Syringes and Wafer Pour Les Femmes. Orin Davis M.D. (1823–1911) was a pathbreaking medical reformer who organized the very first class of female medical students in Rochester, New York, which included his wife. In 1854.....
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.....
On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke Academy staff notified her family, a search party was assembled. That night the party found her decapitated and violated body in the woods near the school and discovered her head.....
First edition, with an autograph letter and an autograph poem by Thaxter inlaid and inserted. With splendid plates after paintings by Thaxter’s friend Childe Hassam. Written from Appledore Island, the letter is addressed to one “Mr. Underwood.” Thaxter writes in full: “Will you choose from these three small things? I......
An exceptionally rare, pseudonymously written cookbook, taking for both its author and title the name of preeminent eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington, known for her wit, beauty, independence, and many theatrical accomplishments. Published in the midst of the nascent women’s movement of the nineteenth century, this volume opens with.....