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…

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…

Depicts mullein, rosemary, nettle, and deadly nightshade.

Depicts parsley, valerian, foxglove, and crowfoot.

Depicts hemlock, barberry, elder, and oak.

Depicts bittersweet, chamomile, caraway, and Herb Robert.

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

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

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

Depicts buckthorn, fennel, tansy, and wood sorrel.

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

Depicts henbane, calamint, sage, and mustard.

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

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

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…

The label for Charles A. Wright's Origininal [Original] Cholera Balm includes dosing instructions for adults and children. It was marketed as a treatment for a wide range of gastrointestinal ailments including cholera…

John C. Doig began his Lowville, NY druggist business in the mid-1800s. His sons Charles and Frank took over the operation from his business partner in the 1870s and renamed it Doig Brothers Drug Store. In a 1909 ad in…

Glass bottle of F. Ad. Richter brand "pain expeller" medicine.

Friedrich Adolf Richter (1846-1910) was a German businessman and founder of F. Ad. Richter & Cie, a producer of pharmaceuticals, music boxes, gramophones,…

Lydia E. Pinkham brand "Vegetable Compound", containing extract of Piscidia Erythrina (Jamaica Dogwood), Asclepias Tuberosa (Pleurisy Root), Cimicifuga Racemosa (Black Cohosh), Vitamin B1, Dandelion, and other…

The label for McLaughlin’s Magic Relief from Cases Drug Store of Logan, Ohio advertises this patent medicine as a cure for gastrointestinal ailments and as a pain reliever. According to the label, the primary ingredient…

The label for McLaughlin’s Magic Relief from Cases Drug Store of Logan, Ohio advertises this patent medicine as a cure for gastrointestinal ailments and as a pain reliever. According to the label, the primary ingredient…

Portrait of Charles Frederick Chandler (1836-1925), an industrial chemist whose research concerning sugar refining, gas manufacturing, and chemical education greatly impacted public sanitation and health.

Charles…