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This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

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    Plate No. 3: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts stavesacre, golden rod, lime, and bear berry.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Goldenrods, Limes, Delphinium, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Medicine, Popular
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 13: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts parsley, valerian, foxglove, and crowfoot.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Medicine, Medicinal plants, Parsley, Purple foxglove, Medicine, Popular, Valeriana officinalis, Ranunculus acris
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 16: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts dill, peppermint, spurge-laurel, and black bryony.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Peppermint, Daphnes, Black bryony, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Dill, Medicine, Popular
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 6: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts scurvy-grass, colchicum or meadow saffron, garlic, and horse-radish.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Colchicum, Garlic, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Horse-radish, Medicine, Popular, Lepidium oleraceum
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 1: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts saffron, meadow-sweet, hedge-mustard, and hedge-nettle.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Rosaceae, Stachys, Medicine, Cruciferae, Saffron crocus, Medicine, Popular, Medicinal plants
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 9: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts peony, St. John's wort, aconite or monkshood, and lily of the valley.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Medicine, Monkshoods, Lilies-of-the-valley, Hypericum, Peonies, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Popular
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 2: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts buckthorn, fennel, tansy, and wood sorrel.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Oxalis, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Tanacetum vulgare, Fennel, Medicine, Popular, Buckthorns
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 7: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts juniper, black currant, white horehound, and coltsfoot.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Junipers, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Marrubium, Coltsfoot, Medicine, Popular, European black currant
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 20: Poisonous Reptiles and Insects

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts a mad dog, scorpion, rattlesnake, tarantula, centipede, and copperhead.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Rattlesnakes, Copperhead, Poisonous animals, Medicine, Tarantulas, Centipedes, Medicine, Popular, Rabies in dogs, Scorpions
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 15: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts bittersweet, chamomile, caraway, and Herb Robert.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Medicine, Medicinal plants, Umbelliferae, Bittersweet, Medicine, Popular, German chamomile, Geranium robertianum
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 8: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts plantain, white poppy, pennyroyal, and bearsfoot.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Lamiaceae, Plantago, Hellebores, Medicinal plants, Medicine, Popular, Cannon, Poppy, Medicine
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 14: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts hemlock, barberry, elder, and oak.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Oak, Poison hemlock, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Elders (Plants), Medicine, Popular, Barberries
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 4: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts henbane, calamint, sage, and mustard.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Lamiaceae, Sage, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Hyoscyamus niger, Cruciferae, Medicine, Popular
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 5: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts thorn-apple, asparagus, marsh mallow, and hop.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Asparagus, Malvaceae, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Datura wrightii, Medicine, Popular, Hops
  • Illustrations

    Plate No. 12: Medicinal Plants

    • Part of The Book of Health
    • 1898

    Depicts mullein, rosemary, nettle, and deadly nightshade.

    • Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
    • Publisher W.P. Mason
    • Subject Rosemary, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Mulleins, Medicine, Popular, Belladonna (Plant), Nettles

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