Health & Medicine

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

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…

Gold painted metal can and lid both with extensive dark blue lettering and decoration.The main label reads "LANGLEBERT'S PSYLLIUM SEEDS." The can is full of small brown psyllium seeds, a source of soluble dietary fiber.

In a small workshop a medical alchemist tends to the foot of a seated patient while the man's wife and child look on. At left, an assistant grinds a substance--likely a medicine or salve--in a small mortar and pestle.…

The cover and title page are digitized from the first edition of this seminal work responsible for exposing dangerous adulterations to foods and beverages. Food and drug purity legislation followed later in the…

The title page is digitized from the fourth edition of this seminal work responsible for exposing dangerous adulterations to foods and beverages. Food and drug purity legislation followed later in the nineteenth…

Lecture notes recorded by Jean-Baptiste-Alexandre Stroehlin in Paris when he attended lectures given by Matthieu Orfila. The lectures are organized around specific chemicals, thus there are headings such as "Carbonates"…

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

This photogravure by Gebbie & Husson Co. Ltd. reproduces Thomas Eakins' painting known as The Agnew Clinic (or The Clinic of Dr. Agnew). Eakins was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania Medical Class of 1889 to…

Depicts parsley, valerian, foxglove, and crowfoot.

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

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

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

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

Depicts henbane, calamint, sage, and mustard.

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…

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

Depicts bittersweet, chamomile, caraway, and Herb Robert.

Depicts plantain, white poppy, pennyroyal, and bearsfoot.

Depicts hemlock, barberry, elder, and oak.

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

Depicts buckthorn, fennel, tansy, and wood sorrel.

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

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