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Tailby-Nason's Mentho-Terpenol Pain Reliever
- After 1880 – before 1970
Blue glass bottle, stained by residue from its contents, with metal screw cap lid and white paper label. The topical ointment once held in this bottle was intended for pain relief. According to the label, the ointment…
- Creator Of Work Tailby-Nason Company
- Subject Analgesics, Drugs, Quacks and quackery, Tailby-Nason Company
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Hanson's Magic Corn Salve
- After 1884 – before 1925
Small orange box containing a topical rub intended to treat corns, bunions, and warts.
Willis Tracy Hanson, Sr. (1858-1933) was a New York businessman known for selling patent medicines. These remedies could be…
- Manufacturer W.T. Hanson Co.
- Subject Drugs, W.T. Hanson Co., Quacks and quackery, Pharmaceutical industry, Warts, Bunion
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Strychnine Sulfate Tablets
- After 1870 – before 1910
Bottle of Strychnine Sulfate tablets in a brown glass bottle with cork top closure.
Strychnine is a highly toxic, colorless, crystalline alkaloid used today as a pesticide for rodents or birds. When inhaled, swallowed,…
- Creator Of Work Eli Lilly and Company
- Subject Strychnine, Strychnine--Toxicology, Drugs, Eli Lilly and Company
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Students in anatomy class at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania
- 1895
Cyanotype depicting a group of female students participating in an anatomy class at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. The group is gathered around a table working on a human cadaver. The students' names are…
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Medico-galvanic Battery
- 1870 – 1900
Diagram depicting a medico-galvanic battery, a type of portable shock-producing electrotherapeutic device commonly in use between 1870 and 1920. Such devices provided both direct and alternating current and were thought…
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The Pasteur Boom—High Times for Hydrophobists
- 1885-Dec-23
Featured on the back cover of Puck magazine, this cartoon entitled "The Pasteur Boom—High Times for Hydrophobists" mocks those who traveled to France to receive Louis Pasteur's (1822-1895) new vaccine for the rabies…
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How Antitoxines are Developed
- 1895-Jan-05
Page from the Harper's Weekly journal is entitled "How Antitoxines are Developed" and features content and photographic reproductions related to using antitoxins as a treatment for the diphtheria virus. Top photograph…
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The Book of Health
- 1898
Intended as a health reference book for the family, topics include diseases, anatomy, hygiene, care of the sick, medicinal plants and administration of medicine. Select anatomical diagrams have been digitized along with…
- Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
- Subject Human anatomy--Study and teaching, Human skeleton, Poisonous animals, Medicine, Medicinal plants, Human anatomy, Phrenology, Medicine, Popular, Phrenology--Study and teaching, Family medicine, Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904, Human skeleton--Study and teaching
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E.F. Carey pharmacopeia
- 1863 – 1875
This notebook contains recipes and formulas developed or copied by E. F. Carey while working as an assistant pharmacist in Rhode Island and as the owner operator of a pharmacy in Massachusetts between 1863 and 1875.…
- Author Carey, E. F.
- Subject Medicine, Pharmacopoeias, Pharmacy, Patent medicines
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Free-blown glass breast pump
- 1850s
Long stem, round bottom flask with custom flange. Needle-size hole on opposite side of flange allows for release of pressure.
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Drugs and medicines of North America
- A quarterly devoted to the historical and scientific discussion of the botany, pharmacy, chemistry and the therapeutics of the medicinal plants of North America, their constituents, products and sophistications
- 1884-Apr – 1887-Jun
Select plates digitized including drawings of plant specimens, maps illustrating locale of plant specimens as well as magnified illustrations of plant parts.
- Creator Of Work Lloyd, C. G. (Curtis Gates), 1859-1926, Lloyd, John Uri, 1849-1936
- Subject Botany, Medical, Phytogeography, Pharmacy, Drugs, Materia medica
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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