A pair of hastily composed yet fascinating illustrated advertising broadsides for patent medicines and other dodgy products aimed at African-Americans in Philadelphia. The advertiser, E. P. Read, offers a host of concoctions—"Women's Long Life Female Remedy," "Young-Youth-Nerve and Body Tonic," "Live Forever Tonic," etc. Also promoted is a nascent fraternal.....
A rare broadside issued by a German-Jewish doctor in Virginia, defending himself against “unremitting hostility,” offering to show his Prussian and American diplomas, and providing professional character references from medical faculty at the University of Maryland. Marcus Ahlenfeld was born in Bolkenheim, Silesia (in what is now the southwest of.....
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.....
A rare 1860s photo-illustrated broadside presenting the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, featuring a view of the college and nine images of its professors. The college had by this time merged with Columbia University’s medical faculty. The central image is a view of the college building, with its.....
This medical fee bill outlines services offered and the varying prices for them, ranging from .50 cents to $100. Services are broken into three categories: general services—prescriptions, teeth extractions, “lancing abscess,” etc.; “Obstetrics”—Embryotomy, Craniotomy, etc.; and “Surgery”—“Ligating Arteries, large,” “Hair-lip,” “Red’ng Strangulated Hernia,” “Fistula in Ano,” etc. Rates are also.....