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Carl Neuberg's personal calling card
- 1922-Jun-17
Calling card for Carl Neuberg (1877-1956). Includes a note to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) written by Neuberg. Neuberg is regarded as the father of modern biochemistry and was nominated for a Nobel Prize for Chemistry…
- Author Neuberg, Carl, 1877-
- Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Neuberg, Carl, 1877-, Visiting cards, Biochemistry, Chemists, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
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Gold-plated stem pessary (intrauterine device)
- 1920
A type of early intrauterine device (IUD) also known as a cervicouterine device or pessary. Curved disk with long coil stem attached to plate of disk. Coil opens into a wishbone shape with two arms. Arms are held…
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Parke Davis & Co. Pharmaceutical Nursing Drug Kit
- 1910s
A black leather pouch containing 11 vials of various pharmaceutical tablets. Five vials are empty, and one is missing.
Vials are labeled:
Hypodermatic tablets No. 5, (Cocaine hydrochlorate);
Hypodermatic tablets No.…- Creator Of Work Parke, Davis & Company
- Subject Parke, Davis & Company, Drugs, Medical supplies, Nursing--Equipment and supplies, Pharmaceutical industry
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Display samples only, Lilly solvets for solutions
- Circa 1919
Arrangement of eight bottles filled with solvet tablets. Solvets are meant to be dissolved in solutions.
Created by Eli Lilly & Company, this handbook is meant for pharmacists. It is a list of products and contains…
- Author Eli Lilly and Company
- Subject Drugs--Catalogs, Therapeutics, Eli Lilly and Company, Drugs
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Display samples only, Lilly Tablets, showing representative shapes and sizes
- Circa 1919
Arrangement of fourteen bottles of tablets in various shapes, colors, and sizes.
Created by Eli Lilly & Company, this handbook is meant for pharmacists. It is a list of products and contains practical information such…
- Author Eli Lilly and Company
- Subject Drugs--Catalogs, Therapeutics, Eli Lilly and Company, Drugs
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Display samples only, Lilly Pulvules, showing representative sizes and colors
- Circa 1919
Arrangement of nine bottles of pulvules in various sizes and colors. Pulvules are a proprietary type of gelatin capsule filled with powder. Lilly trademarked pulvule in 1921.
Created by Eli Lilly & Company, this…
- Author Eli Lilly and Company
- Subject Drugs--Catalogs, Therapeutics, Eli Lilly and Company, Drugs
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Plate VIII. Brown staining from mustard gas.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on the eighteenth day after exposure to gas.
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Plate VII. Burning of scrotum and penis by mustard gas.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on eleventh day.
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Plate VI. Blistering of buttocks by mustard gas.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on eleventh day.
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Plate V. Erythema of skin from general exposure to the vapour of Yellow Cross substance.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on fifth day.
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Plate IX. Ulceration of trachea by mustard gas.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing of a trachea at the twelfth day after gassing.
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Plate IV. Gangrene of foot caused by vascular thrombosis from chlorine poisoning.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing of foot made on fifth day.
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Plate III. Pallid type of asphyxia from phosgene poisoning, with circulatory failure.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made on second day after gassing.
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Plate II. Blue type of asphyxia from phosgene poisoning, with intense venous congestion.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
Drawing made early on second day after gassing.
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Plate I. Microscopic section of human lung from phosgene shell poisoning. Death at the nineteenth hour after gassing.
- Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
"The piece of lung shown is almost entirely useless for aeration of the blood."
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An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
- 1918
First edition volume, published in August 1918 by Great Britain's Medical Research Committee. Founded in 1913, the Medical Research Committee and Advisory Council existed primarily for the distribution of medical…
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Mexican Brand Insect Fluid Label
- Circa 1910 – circa 1915
Printed bottle label for Mexican Brand Insect Fluid, depicting a woman using the product in a bedroom, with the tagline "What is Home without a Clean Bed."
- Subject Public health, DDT (Insecticide), Insecticides, Toxins
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W. M. Haffkine
- Circa 1913
Reproduction of a photographic portrait of Waldemar Mordechai Haffkine (1860-1930), a native Russian bacteriologist who worked at the Pasteur Institute to develop an anti-cholera vaccine. Haffkine is recognized as the…
- Author American Medical Association
- Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
- Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Haffkine, W. M. (Waldemar Mordecai), 1860-1930, Microbiologists, Bacteriology
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Vaccination [caricature]
- Circa 1913
Plate from a French caricature by Carlo Gripp (1826-1900) depicting a woman surrounded by a small group dressed in formal attire. The woman lifts her dress to reveal her shin, which she presents to a kneeling doctor who…
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The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
- Circa 1913
This book on the history of vaccination is associated with the American Medical Association's 1913 Annual Meeting, which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Includes a forward by Henry S. Wellcome announcing the…
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Robert Koch
- Born 1843 Died 1910
- Circa 1913
Photographic reproduction portrait of German physician and microbiologist, Robert Koch (1843-1910). Koch is considered one of the founders of modern bacteriology due to his identification of the causative agents of…