Health & Medicine

Black and white plastic instrument; main body is white and stands vertically; an aluminum pole is attached to each side parallel to the main body, the poles are attached to the main body in two places; the front of the…

Maranta of Venosa's work on antidotes to poisons. Only engraved title page has been digitized at this time.

This vessel is believed to be one of the original fermentation pans used by researchers at Oxford University to produce penicillin in the 1940s.

Rectangular porcelain vessel used for growing penicillin; sealed at all…

Select plates digitized including drawings of plant specimens, maps illustrating locale of plant specimens as well as magnified illustrations of plant parts.

White plastic medicine bottle with safety cap. Bottle contains tablets and original inner seal is intact. White, dark red, and yellow label adhered to bottle reads "Enovid".

The ubiquitous bottle has a long history.…

Bowls like this one were used to catch the blood released by bleeding. The appearance of blood was a useful diagnostic tool for physicians, who examined it for clues about the body's internal state. This large bowl was…

Depicts mullein, rosemary, nettle, and deadly nightshade.

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

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

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

Depicts parsley, valerian, foxglove, and crowfoot.

Depicts buckthorn, fennel, tansy, and wood sorrel.

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

Depicts hemlock, barberry, elder, and oak.

Depicts bittersweet, chamomile, caraway, and Herb Robert.

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

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

Depicts plantain, white poppy, pennyroyal, and bearsfoot.

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

Depicts henbane, calamint, sage, and mustard.

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

This photogravure by Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd. reproduces Thomas Eakins' painting of Dr. Agnew lecturing to a crowd during surgery. Eakins depicted Dr. David Hayes Agnew lecturing during an operation before an audience…

Small glass Bayer orange flavoured children's chewable aspirin bottle with pink plastic cap, 36 tablet size.

Small glass Bayer flavoured children's size aspirin bottle with pink plastic cap, 36 tablet size, containing pink tablets.