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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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    Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

    Bayer Aspirin Tin, 12 Tablet Size

    • 1910 – 2007

    Small, shallow, rectangular tin box containing medicine pills. Label on front of tin has yellow background with "12 Bayer-Tablets of Aspirin (5 grs. each)" in white text on brown background. Tin pillbox contains…

    • Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
    • Subject Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin
  • 2 items
    Vessels (Containers), Medical instruments and apparatus

    Glass Bayer Aspirin Bottle, 300 Tablet Size

    • 1910 – 2007

    Glass Bayer aspirin bottle, 300 tablet size, contains white tablets.

    • Contributor Sterling Drug
    • Manufacturer Bayer Company, Inc.
    • Subject Sterling Drug, Drugs, Medicine bottles, Bayer Company, Inc., Aspirin
  • Photographs, Portraits

    Portrait of Isaac Ott (1847-1916)

    • Circa 1910

    Portrait of Isaac Ott (1847-1916). Ott was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on November 30, 1847 and graduated from Lafayette College (class of 1867). Ott went onto study medicine at the University of…

    • Subject Portrait photography, Ott, Isaac, 1847-1916, Medical education, Portraits, University of Pennsylvania
  • Ephemera

    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
  • 2 items
    Medical instruments and apparatus

    Park Davis & Co. Pharmaceutical Nursing Drug Kit

    • 1910s

    A black leather pouch containing 11 vials of various pharmaceutical tablets. Five vials are empty, and one vial is missing.

    The vials are labeled:
    Hypodermatic tablets No. 5, (Cocaine hydrochlorate);
    Hypodermatic…

    • Creator Of Work Parke, Davis & Company
    • Subject Parke, Davis & Company, Drugs, Medical supplies, Nursing--Equipment and supplies, Pharmaceutical industry
  • 15 items
    Publications

    Nostrums and Quackery

    • Articles on the Nostrum Evil, Quackery and Allied Matters Affecting the Public Health; Reprinted... from the Journal of the American Medical Association
    • 1911

    Volume two of three, compiled by the Journal of the American Medical Association. The volume consists of a collection of pseudo-scientific printings outlining fraudulent medicinal treatments. The quackery included in…

    • Author American Medical Association
    • Editor Cramp, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1872-
    • Subject Quacks and quackery, Patent medicines, Medicine, Drugs, Therapeutics, Drugs, Nonprescription, Obesity--Treatment, Sexism in medicine, Drug addiction--Treatment, Public health
  • Publications, Illustrations, Portraits

    Robert Koch

    • Born 1843 Died 1910
    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • 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…

    • 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, Koch, Robert, 1843-1910, Bacteriology
  • Publications, Illustrations

    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    Illustration depicting a portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762). The portrait accompanies text describing her advocacy for Eastern methods of inoculation. Lady Montagu is credited with the introduction of…

    • 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, Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762, Women in medicine
  • Publications, Illustrations, Portraits

    Dr. [Emile] Roux

    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    Photographic reproduction portrait of Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853-1933), a French physician and assistant to renowned scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) from 1878 until 1883. Roux and French microbiologist, Charles…

    • 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, Roux, Monsieur (Emile), 1853-1933
  • Publications, Illustrations, Portraits

    Louis Pasteur

    • Born 1822 Died 1895
    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    Photographic reproduction portrait of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), a French microbiologist who investigated the fermentative properties of bacteria, developed the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax, discovered 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, Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895
  • Publications, Illustrations

    'Tabloid' Medical Equipments at the North Pole

    • April 6, 1909 'Tabloid' Medicine Chest supplied to Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary
    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    Illustration depicting the medical equipment carried by Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), an explorer of the Arctic. The inset upper left photograph shows one of eight tubes of 'Tabloid' products and 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, Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920, Medicine bottles, Medicine bottles, Victorian
  • Publications, Illustrations, Portraits

    Dr. Thomas Dimsdale

    • (Afterwards Baron Dimsdale) Born 1712 Died 1800
    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    Portrait of Thomas Dimsdale, a practitioner of medicine recognized as a specialist in inoculation. Dimsdale was summoned by the Empress of Russia, Catherine II, in 1768 to introduce the practice of inoculation in…

    • 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, Dimsdale, Thomas, 1712-1800, Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796
  • Publications, Illustrations, Portraits

    W. M. Haffkine

    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • 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
  • Publications, Illustrations

    A Religious Dramatic Representation of the Power of the [Hindu] Goddess of Smallpox

    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    This illustration is a reproduction of a drawing depicting the Hindu goddess, Śītalā. The illustration accompanies a discussion of the development of smallpox inoculation which emerged from Hindu cultures as early as…

    • Author American Medical Association
    • Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
    • Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Śītalā (Hindu deity), Smallpox, Smallpox--Vaccination, Art, Ancient
  • 333 items
    Publications, Illustrated works

    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…

    • 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
  • Publications, Illustrations, Portraits

    Benjamin Jesty

    • From the original oil painting
    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    Black and white reproduction of an oil painting portrait of Benjamin Jesty (c. 1736-1816). Jesty, a cattle farmer from Dorset, England, gained notoriety as a key contributor to the linkage of cowpox and smallpox. He was…

    • Author American Medical Association
    • Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
    • After Sharp, Michael William, c. 1776-1840
    • Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Jesty, Benjamin, 1736-1816, Vaccinia
  • Publications, Illustrations, Portraits

    Dr. [Charles] Chamberland

    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    Photographic reproduction portrait of Charles Chamberland (1851-1908), a French microbiologist and colleague of renowned scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). Chamberland and French physician Pierre Paul Émile Roux…

    • 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, Chamberland, Charles, 1851-1908
  • Publications, Illustrations

    Vaccination [caricature]

    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • 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…

    • Author American Medical Association
    • Publisher Burroughs Wellcome and Company
    • Artist Gripp, Carlo (1826-1900)
    • Subject Vaccination, Burroughs Wellcome and Company, Medicine, Pharmacology, First aid in illness and injury, Exhibitions, Medical supplies, Vaccines, Caricatures and cartoons
  • Publications, Illustrations, Portraits

    Professor [Emil von] Behring

    • Part of The History of Inoculation and Vaccination for the Prevention and Treatment of Disease
    • Circa 1913

    Portrait of Emil von Behring (1854-1917), a German physiologist who worked to prove the possibility of transferring immunity against the toxins of tetanus and Diptheria. Behring won the 1901 Nobel Prize for Physiology…

    • 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, Behring, Emil von, 1854-1917, Serotherapy, Tetanus--Vaccination, Nobel Prize winners, Physiologists
  • Photographs

    Bureau of Chemistry Pharmacognosy Laboratory

    • 1914 – before 1928

    General view of employees at work in the Bureau of Chemistry's Pharmacognosy Laboratory. Part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Pharmacognosy Laboratory supervised the manufacture and distribution of crude…

    • Creator Of Work United States. Food and Drug Administration
    • Subject Employees, United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Pharmacognosy, Drugs, Women employees, Laboratories
  • Illustrations

    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.

    • Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
    • Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
    • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
  • Illustrations

    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.

    • Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
    • Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
    • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
  • Illustrations

    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."

    • Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
    • Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
    • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
  • Illustrations

    Plate XI. A. Severely burned eye in the acute stage. B. Slightly later stage of acute burning.

    • Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
    • 1918
    • Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
    • Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
    • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
  • Illustrations

    Plate VI. Blistering of buttocks by mustard gas.

    • Part of An Atlas of Gas Poisoning
    • 1918

    Drawing made on eleventh day.

    • Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
    • Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
    • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas
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