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- An Abstract of the Patent Granted by His Majesty King George…
- Description
- Patent medicines originated in England in the mid 17th century and were marketed with extravagant claims, offering cures for a host of maladies. Recommendations for dosage were vague, and ingredients (often including opium) were usually not specified. In 1726 Benjamin Okell was granted the royal patent for Dr. Bateman’s Pectoral Drops, a tincture of gambir (an astringent extract from an Asian plant) and opium. Advertisements published in the London Mercury as early as 1721 directed prospective customers to the warehouse and printing shop at Bow's Churchyard, where they could purchase the drops for one shilling. Our copy of the 1731 reprint by Peter Zenger is likely the first piece of medical printing in New York. Zenger, who would later become famous for printing seditious texts, was instrumental in establishing freedom of the press in America. The Academy has the only known copy. Bound with our copy of the abstract is a copy of A Short treatise of the virtues of Dr. Bateman's Pectoral Drops, also issued by Okell and his printing house partners. Here, Batemans efficacy as a treatment for numerous ailments are described in sections dedicated to each. The last section of the treatise offers testimonials from satisfied customers.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Early works to 1800, Fever, Medicine, Patent medicines, Rheumatism
- Title
- Morse's Yellow Dock the Great Blood Purifier and Kidney Remedy
- Description
- Trade card advertising Morse's Yellow Dock featuring a kitten's head turned to the right. The kitten is brown and white. The back has a dataset for countries around the world.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Cats
- ID
- WH310
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring a bouquet of red and purple flowers with green leaves. The back lists the ailments the items can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Backache, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Flowers, Leaves, Nature
- ID
- WH189
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring a bouquet of red-blue-and-white and purple flowers with greenery. The back describes the ailments the items can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Backache, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Inflammation, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Nature
- ID
- WH324
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Morse's Yellow Dock the Great Blood Purifier and Kidney Remedy
- Description
- Trade card advertising Morse's Yellow Dock featuring a kitten's head turned to the right. Around its neck is a blue bow with some red in it. The back has a dataset for countries around the world.
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Bows, Cats
- ID
- WH309
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring a bouquet of red and purple flowers with green leaves. The back lists the ailments the items can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Backache, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Flowers, Leaves, Nature
- ID
- WH190
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Here biginneth the inventorie or the collectorye in cirurgicale parte of medicene compiled and complete in the yere of oure Lord
- Description
- An illuminated and illustrated manuscript of the Chirurgia magna, or great surgery, by Guy de Chauliac. Attempting in the Chirurgia to collect the best medical ideas of his time, he compiled sources from Arabic and Greek writers, including Rhazes, Avicenna, Hippocrates, Aristotle and others. Guy wrote the first text of the Chirurgia in Latin at Montpellier, in approximately 1363. This text was published in many editions and remained the authoritative text on surgery through the seventeenth century. It consists of 181 pages of English black letter in double columns and lines lightly ruled in red. It is ornately illuminated in gold and silver with finely decorated floral borders and large floriated initials, heightened with gold leaf. The manuscript includes 24 drawings of surgical instruments. The calf binding dates to Henry VIII’s reign or to the Elizabethan era. The original brass and leather clasps are engraved with stars and lion heads. There has been dispute about the manuscript’s date, with authorities dating it between the late 14th and second half of the 15th century. The manuscript was sold with the Streeter collection to the New York Academy of Medicine in 1928.
- Subjects (LC)
- Early works to 1800, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Manuscripts, Medical illustration, Medicine, Medicine—History, Medicine, Medieval, Surgery—History, Surgical instruments and apparatus
- Title
- Mother Swan's Worm Syrup
- Description
- Trade card advertising Mother Swan's Worm Syrup, Wells' Complete Cure, Wells' May Apple Pills, Wells' Health Renewer, and Buchu-Paiba featuring various illustrations related to the different items advertised. There is a picture of a swan with its children, a picture of a dead rat, and a picture of a man leaning his head back and opening his mouth. The back is a blank template for a postcard.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Agitation (Psychology), Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Fever, Helminths, Impotence, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Rats, Swans, Water
- ID
- WH376
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring a bouquet of orange, red, and white flowers with greenery. The back describes the ailments the items can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Backache, Biliary Tract—Diseases, Constipation, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Inflammation, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Flowers, Nature, Roses
- ID
- WH322
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Miniature representation of Hood's No. 3 Placque
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hood's Sarsaparilla featuring a circular image of a buck with large antlers. He is standing in a field with grass and wildflowers. There is a snow-capped mountain in the back. The back quotes testimony from satisfied customers.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Indigestion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Deer, Mountains, Nature
- ID
- WH149
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Recipe book : manuscript, 1804
- Description
- Manuscript volume comprises about 92 culinary recipes, as well as about two dozen medical and household recipes. The majority of the culinary recipes are for savory dishes, including soups, curries, stewed fish dishes, collars, and pickles. Sweet recipes (fruit preserves, jellies, cakes, lemon creams, and a "raspberry spunge") are also present. Entries, written in multiple hands, are up to page 86; the remainder are blank except for one page with a partial index.
- Subjects (LC)
- Cooking, English, Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Manuscripts, English -- 19th century
- Title
- Receipt book : autograph manuscript signed, 1848-circa 1885
- Description
- This manuscript consists of approximately 240 culinary recipes and 50 medical and household receipts. The vast majority of the culinary recipes are for tea breads, cakes, little cakes, and desserts, with cakes predominating. Only about 30 of the recipes are for savory dishes, and nearly all of these are for meat, poultry, or pickles. There are no recipes for vegetables or fish. Most of the medical receipts are treatments for common complaints, such as chapped hands, warts, bleeding, and indigestion. There is one predominant hand, most likely that of Jane W.A. Beck, and several others. Many of the recipes are attributed. Clippings, mostly of recipes, are also found throughout the volume.
- Subjects (LC)
- Cooking, American, Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Manuscripts, American -- 19th century
- Title
- Recipe book : manuscript, circa 1830-1850
- Description
- Early 19th-century manuscript contains approximately 86 culinary recipes on 116 pages and a few laid-in sheets, in addition to about a dozen non-culinary (mostly household) recipes. The manuscript is divided into three main parts: "Soups," such as mulligatawny, white soup, carrot soup, and flemish soup; "Creams and Jellies," such as custard, lemon cream, and punch jelly; and "Puddings," such as cheesecake pudding and orange pudding. Other kinds of recipes, culinary (meats, fish, and pickled dishes) and non-culinary, appear between these parts. The manuscript is predominantly written in a single hand and some of the recipes are attributed.
- Subjects (LC)
- Cooking, English, Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Manuscripts, English -- 19th century
- Title
- Parker's Ginger Tonic: the Best Health and Strength Restorer
- Description
- Trade card advertising Parker's Ginger Tonic, Parker's Hair Balsam, and Floreston Cologne featuring a text-based panel flanked by two images of men. The one on the left features a man bending over in what seems to be a coughing fit. The one on the right features a man at peace who seems to have just taken the Tonic being advertised. The back lists the benefits of each item advertised.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Cough, Dandruff, Indigestion, Rheumatism
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Clothing And Dress, Men, Men's Clothing, Men's Hats
- ID
- WH180
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Hanson's Magic Corn Salve
- Description
- Trade card advertising Hanson's Magic Corn Salve featuring a man in a three-piece suit holding a bouquet of flowers. His mustache is pointed at the ends, and he is framed by flowers that resemble Morning Glories. The back warns customers against counterfeit products.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Bunion
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Bouquets, Clothes And Dress, Costume, Eyeglasses, Flowers, Mustaches
- ID
- WH271
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
- Description
- Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills, Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Sanative Wash featuring a square image of a sailboat in profile with a shadowed fleet behind it. The foregrounded boat has a red flag at the tip of its mast. The square image is framed by overlaid leaves and red, white, blue, and purple flowers. The back describes the ailments the items can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Backache, Constipation, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Inflammation, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Flowers, Nature, Ocean, Sailboats, Water
- ID
- WH327
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Our Boy: Compliments of Scott & Bowne Manufacturers of Scott's Emulsion
- Description
- Trade card advertising Scott's Emulsion featuring a portrait of a young boy in a nautical outfit. He has brown, curly hair, blue eyes, and flushed cheeks. The back lists the ailments the Emulsion can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Anemia, Cold (Disease), Cough, Scrofula, Tuberculosis
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Boys, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Portraits
- ID
- WH349
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Our Boy: Compliments of Scott & Bowne Manufacturers of Scott's Emulsion
- Description
- Trade card advertising Scott's Emulsion featuring a portrait of a young boy in a nautical outfit. He has brown, curly hair, blue eyes, and flushed cheeks. The back lists the ailments the Emulsion can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Anemia, Cold (Disease), Cough, Scrofula, Tuberculosis
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Boys, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Portraits
- ID
- WH350
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
- Title
- Specimen Medicinae Sinicae
- Description
- The Specimen Medicinae Sinicae is the first illustrated book published on Chinese medicine in the West. It contains an overview of Chinese medical practices including acupuncture and meridian theories, semiology of the tongue, descriptions of Chinese pharmaceuticals and their uses, and an important translation of a Ming treatise on pulse diagnosis. The Specimen includes thirty engraved plates and woodcut illustrations in the text, depicting the Chinese doctrine of the pulse and the semiology of the tongue, along with eight tables showing the variations of the pulses. Explaining Chinese pulse theory to a European audience proved difficult. Insufficient description of the plates, which pictured figures with doubled lines running through the bodies, confused western audiences, who interpreted these representations as indication that the Chinese didn't know their anatomy. The publication of the Specimen Medicinae Sinicae did little to change the commonly-held belief that the Chinese were crackerjack diagnosticians, with a misguided idea of the body's interior. The tenets of Chinese medicine and diagnostics were also somewhat muddled in the minds of westerners. Nevertheless, the translation did much to introduce pulse lore, acupuncture, and new materia medica to a Western audience of medical practitioners eager to experiment.
- Subjects (LC)
- Acupuncture—China, Anatomy, Chinese—History, Early works to 1800, Materia medica—China, Medicine, Medicine, Chinese, Medical illustration, Pulse—Measurement
- Geographic Subject
- China
- Title
- Hoffman cook book : manuscript, circa 1835-1870
- Description
- This manuscript contains approximately 200 recipes. The first and largest section of the manuscript consists of German recipes reminiscent of recipes now identified with the "Pennsylvania Dutch" and other ethnically German communities in the Mid-Atlantic and near Midwest, as well as some American recipes. German recipes include boiled cheese, warm cucumber salad, noodles with sour gravy, fried sauerkraut; American recipes include pound cakes, pot pie dough, pumpkin pie, and ketchup. This section was initially attributed to Susanna Weinbrech Hoffmann (1742-1803), but the recipes suggest a later date, post-1835 and pre-1870, and consequently a different author. The following section contains recipes, mostly for desserts (cakes, pies, puddings, etc.), in a different hand. These were most likely written by Lydia A. Hoffman Smyser around 1865. Two other recipes are also present and believed to be in the hand of Mary E. F. Hoffman. These recipes are followed by six medicinal receipts in the hand of the main body of the manuscript.
- Subjects (LC)
- Cooking, American, German Americans -- Maryland, Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Manuscripts, American -- 19th century