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.....