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Title: della Porta's Natural Magic
Description: Possible History of Magic exam question: what happened when Giambattista della Porta, the author of this 1558 book on natural magic, was called a "Neapolitan sorcerer" by the French witch hunter Jean Bodin? Della Porta's book explained that some women accused of witchcraft may have used herbal lotions that contained hallucinogenic properties, prompting them to imagine they could fly. With a little luck, Flourish and Botts Bookseller may have a copy; you'll also find creative applications for mandrake and other medicinal plants in these pages.
Collection: How to Pass Your O.W.L.s at Hogwarts: A Prep Course

Title: [New York Hospital]
Description: Black-and-white postcard with view of New York Hospital in Manhattan and its entrance. Message space is underneath and to the right of the image. | Postcard sent with two one-cent Benjamin Franklin stamps. | Handwritten message starting on front and continuing on back from S. A. H. Sears to Miss Mary Huntley in London, England. The message discusses Sears's health, nightly classwork, and that Dr. B. has offered Miss Fuller's position to Sears.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, New York Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
ID: nycm_305
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title

[Introduction]

Description

The Dutch West India Company occupied northeastern Brazil from 1624 to 1654. In 1638, the physician Willem Piso and astronomer Georg Markgraf arrived as part of Johann Maurits’ research staff, tasked with promoting scientific studies in Brazil. This is the Introduction to their collaborative illustrated folio volume, which spanned 12 books and was published in 1648. Rich in description of native life, the book contains 446 woodcuts illustrating local flora and fauna, and comprises the most important early documentation of zoology, botany and medicine in Brazil.

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Subjects (LC)

Botanical illustration, Early works to 1800, Indians of Central America, Indigenous crops, Indigenous peoples—Ecology, Natural history—Brazil, Natural history illustration, Medical geography, Medicine, Zoological illustration, Zoology—Brazil, Zoology—Pre-Linnean works, Wood-engraving

Title: [Hand-colored engraving of Helen McDougal and William Burke]
Description: Hand-colored engraving by unknown artist and unknown engraver.
Language: English
ID: RM1010P133V00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: [Engraving of Dr. Robert Knox]
Language: English
ID: RM1010P150R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: [Bronx Veteran's Hospital]
Description: Black-and-white postcard showing a side view of Bronx Veterans Hospital. Snow is visible on the ground while bare trees flank the hospital building. | Handwritten notation at bottom of front: "Bronx Veteran's Hospital"; the hospital is unnamed on the postcard. | Message handwritten vertically to the left of image: "Looks as big as life and twice as natural doesn't it?" | Postcard sent with two-cent George Washington stamp. | Handwritten message on back from Mary Ann to [Mrs. Cozie?] of Brooklyn, N.Y., discussing attending a concert at NYU on Thursday.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Bronx County, Veterans Administration Hospital (Bronx, New York, N.Y.), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Public hospitals, Veterans' hospitals, Trees, Snow, New York University, Concerts
ID: nycbx_115
Geographic Subject: Bronx (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Zodaic Man

Title: Wound Figure

Title: Work in Craft Shops for Convalescent Patients, U.S.A. General Hospital No. 41
Description: Black-and-white postcard with image of a crafts shop room at U.S.A. General Hospital No. 41 on Staten Island. A nurse assists six men in making crafts. | Postcard sent with one-cent George Washington stamp. | Typed message on back from Adolph Ziebe to Mrs. Carl Heineke, of Chicago, Ill., hoping that all are in good health.
Subjects (LC): Hospitals, Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- Richmond County, United States -- Army -- General Hospital No. 41, United States -- Army, World War, 1914-1918, Military hospitals, Nurses, Soldiers, Weaving
ID: nycsi_072
Geographic Subject: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Woodville's Dittany
Description: In the eighteenth century, dittany gained notice in Europe for its efficacy in treating worms and infections. A tincture of dittany cut with wine was also used to treat epilepsy. William Woodville reports in his three-volume Medical Botany that the plant could often be seen adorning the borders of flower gardens, emitting a strong bituminous odor. Wizards, follow your nose: as term begins, and you make your way to platform 9-and-3/4, you'll do well to nab this odiferous plant from Woodville's former garden, located in King's Cross just yards away from the Hogwarts Express.
Collection: How to Pass Your O.W.L.s at Hogwarts: A Prep Course

Title: Woman's Hospital
Description: Black-and-white postcard with view of Woman's Hospital in Manhattan showing its entrance, fenced-in grounds, and trees along the street. | Caption at top left of back describes the hospital and its capacity. | Card not posted.
Subjects (LC): Hospital buildings, Hospitals – New York (State) -- New York County, Woman's Hospital, Women's hospitals, Maternal health services, Trees, Hospitals
ID: nycm_480
Geographic Subject: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

Title

William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

Description

The William S. Ladd Collection of Prints consists of 671 prints, primarily portraits, dating from the 17th century through the early 19th century. In 1975, the Academy accepted the Ladd Collection as a gift from the Cornell University Medical College. William S. Ladd, the original donor, had been Dean of the Medical College and when his significant collection of prints came into the Medical College Library, Erich Meyerhoff, the Librarian, recognized its research value and the fact that such a collection properly belonged in a major research library. With the permission of the Dean of the Cornell University Medical College and the donor’s son, Dr. Anthony T. Ladd, Eric Meyerhoff offered the collection to the Academy. It was accepted and arrived in the Malloch Rare Book Room (now the Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Reading Room) in May of 1975.

The prints themselves had been accumulated in the first half of the 20th century by William S. Ladd. He had purchased a great many of them as deaccessioned duplicates from the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. Primarily portraits of significant and lesser known figures in medicine and science, the prints span a period from the early 17th century to the first half of the 19th century. The printing processes used to render the various images include etching, engraving, stipple, mezzotint, and lithography. Among the etchers, engravers, artists and lithographers are some very famous names, a history in fact of English and Continental art and printmaking, with a smattering of American efforts among the lot. For example, the portrait of John Syng Dorsey (1783-1818), a little known American surgeon who rated a footnote in Fielding Garrison’s An Introduction To The History Of Medicine, is an engraving after a painting by Thomas Sully (1783-1872). Sully, who had studied with Gilbert Stuart and Benjamin West, is best known for his famous painting of Washington crossing the Delaware. The portrait of Charles Lucas (1713-1792), an Irish physician who did not even get a footnote in Garrison’s work, was engraved by James McArdell after a painting by Joshua Reynolds. James McArdell was an engraver who specialized in mezzotints. ...READ MORE

The New York Academy of Medicine Library and the William S. Ladd Collection of Prints digitization was supported in part by funds from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) through the New York State Regional Bibliographic Databases Program.

Ladd, William S. The William S. Ladd Collection of Prints, ca. 1600 to ca. 1850.

Title: William Hare: King's evidence
Description: Hand-colored engraving by unknown artist and unknown engraver.
Language: English
ID: RM1010P139R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title: William Hare, as he appeared in the witness box taken in court
Language: English
ID: RM1016P298R00A0
Collection: The Resurrectionists

Title

William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Description

The William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards contains approximately 300 colorful pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the U.S. and France between 1875 and 1895 that were used to advertise a wide range of goods in the nineteenth century; although introduced (in the mid-eighteenth century) as an ephemeral form of advertisement, they soon became collectors' items and were mass-produced in collectible 'series' comparable to those produced by sports teams in the twentieth century. They are now regarded as some of the best source material for the study of advertising, technology and trade in the post-Civil War period.

The collection was donated to the Academy Library by Mr. Helfand (one of the nation's leading collectors of medical ephemera) in a series of individual gifts between 1986 and 1992. The collection includes a number of duplicates, some of which are useful for scholarly study (e.g. bearing the stamps of different distributing pharmacists).

Scope Note: A collection of approximately 300 trade cards, ca. 1875 - ca. 1925 (bulk ca. 1875 - ca. 1914). Almost all advertise patent medicines or herbal remedies; a few deal with cosmetics, chocolate, or veterinary products. The collection includes a small number of French, German, Italian and Spanish cards; however, the bulk of collection is from the United States. Some of the companies represented manufactured the medicines and products advertised on the cards; others are local pharmacies which had their names printed onto cards advertising products they distributed. Many of the medicines and remedies claim to cure almost any complaint, or to address generalized conditions such as weakness, nervousness and general debility. Others address specific conditions or groups of ailments. Only a few cards list the printer or lithographer responsible for producing the image; very few indicate a date of publication or copyright.

Historical Note: Trade cards are small illustrated advertisements that were distributed for free by manufacturers and retailers from the 17th century to the early 20th century. Following the Civil War, trade cards became enormously popular in the United States and were the most effective mass advertising medium until the end of the 19th century. Late 19th century American trade cards were typically small pasteboard cards printed with illustrations in multiple colors. These cards were either custom-produced for one firm or store, or issued as stock cards. Stock cards allowed a manufacturer or retailer to have printed or stamped their advertisement and/or name and address on the front or back of an existing illustrated card, thus avoiding the expense of having one specially made.

Helfand, William H. The William H. Helfand collection of pharmaceutical trade cards. United States & France, 1875-1925.