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- Wound Figure
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- [Introduction]
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- 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.
- 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
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- Aristotle’s Masterpiece, Or The Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof
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- Published initially in 1684 and popular in both America and England for over two hundred years, this became the most widely reprinted medical book in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The contributions of the Masterpiece were not particularly scientific, but drew largely from Hippocrates, and Galen, as well as other classical and medieval writers. The source material came from two earlier books: Levinus Lemnius’s Secret Miracles of Nature, originally published in Latin in 1599, and The Complete Midwives Practice Enlarged (author unknown). Chapter headings include sections titled, “The Signs of Barrenness” “The Way of getting to a Boy or a Girl,” “How a Midwife Ought to be Qualified” and “A Word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation.” The information this title offered on conception, pregnancy, and childbirth wasn’t particularly innovative; many seventeenth century discoveries in gynecology are absent from the text and replaced by Hippocratic pathology, or by superstition. The “Aristotle” of the title was pseudonymous, and likely evoked by the book’s author to give the tome scientific credibility. The book’s true author is unknown, though Culpepper and William Salmon, an English physician and author, are sometimes credited.
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- Abnormalities, Human, Conception, Early works to 1800, Gynecology, Medicine, Midwifery, Obstetrics, Reproduction, Sex instruction, Sexual behavior
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- Perfumed with Austen's Forest Flower Cologne
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- Trade card advertising Austen's Forest Flower Cologne featuring a suspended woman with a long wreath of leaves and flowers around her. She is in a blue-and-white dress with a red sash around her waist. The back lists the unique properties of the Cologne.
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- Advertising, Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Flowers, Hair Ornaments, Leaves, Nature, Women, Wreaths
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- WH221
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- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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- An Abstract of the Patent Granted by His Majesty King George…
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- 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.
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- Advertising—Medicine, Early works to 1800, Fever, Medicine, Patent medicines, Rheumatism
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- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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- Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring an image of the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River with many boats sailing below it. One can see the shores of both Brooklyn and Manhattan. The back lists the benefits of the Vegetable Compound and the Liver Pills.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Backache, Depression, Mental, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia, Peptic Ulcer, Tumors
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- Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Bridges, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.), East River (N.Y.), New York (N.Y.), Rivers, Sailboats, Sailing Ships, Waterfronts
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- WH183
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- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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- The byrth of Mankynde newly translated out of Laten into Englyshe
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- The Byrth of Mankynde, published in 1540, is the oldest manual for midwives printed in the English language. It remained in use both as a guidebook for midwives and as a source for physicians in the practice of obstetrics throughout Europe for the next two hundred years. The 1540 Byrth was a translation from the Latin edition of De Partu Hominis of Eucharius Rösslin’s Rosengarten. Rösslin was charged with supervising the midwives of Frankfurt, and although this volume contains sound instruction on delivery procedures, it did not break new ground in the field of obstetrics. Instead, it makes available the teachings of the Roman physician Soranus, popularized by Moschion, author of a 6th century question – and –answer book for Roman midwives. Other influences include Galen, Hippocrates, Aetius, Magnus and others. The volume’s seventeen copper-engraved plates were among the first in England to be produced by a roller press. The first illustrates “the Womans Stwle,” or birth chair, a birth aid which had been in use at least since Soranus’ time. Sixteen additional plates depict “Byrth Figures” in various positions in utero. The babies in these images, who resemble children age three or four and not fetuses, float dreamily in light-bulb-shaped vessels.
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- Trade card advertising Fer Bravais featuring two children running away from a horned goat. The three figures are in a grassy field, and there are two containers at the goat's feet. The image is framed with a forest motif that includes autumnal leaves, acorns, and a lizard. The back lists the ailments Fer Bravais can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Chlorosis, Fatigue, Influenza, Typhoid Fever
- Subjects (LC)
- Acorns, Advertising—Medicine, Animals, Children, Children's Clothing, Clothing And Dress, Goats, Grasslands, Leaves, Lizards, Nature, Pails
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- WH202
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- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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- Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature
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Nine titles (11 volumes) from the late 19th and early 20th centuries on medical botany were digitized and contributed to the Biodiversity Heritage Library(BHL) as part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature.
The Library’s contributions include:
- Baillon, H. (Henri). (1878). Programme du cours d’histoire naturelle médicale professé à la Faculté de médecine de Paris. 3ème partie, Etude spéciale des plantes employées en médecine. Paris : F. Savy.
- Gattinger, A., & Allison, T. F. P. (1894). The medicinal plants of Tennnessee : exhibiting their commercial value : with an analytical key, descriptions in aid of their recognition, and notes relating to their distribution, time and mode of collection, and preparation for the drug market. Nashville, Tenn. : Franc. M. Paul, Printer to the State.
- Kīrtikara, K. R., & Basu, B. D. (1918). Indian medicinal plants (Vol. 2nd ed. (1918)). Bahadurganj, India : Sudhindra Nath Basu, Pâninî office; [etc., etc.].
- Kraemer, H. (1902). A course in botany and pharmacognosy. Philadelphia : [Press of Edward Stern].
- Meyer, T. (1911). Arzneipflanzenkultur und Kräuterhandel : rationelle Züchtung, Behandlung und Verwertung der in Deutschland zu ziehenden Arznei- und Gewürzpflanzen ; eine Anleitung für Apotheker, Landwirte und Gärtner. Berlin : J. Springer.
- Moquin-Tandon, A. (1866). Éléments de botanique médicale : contenant la description des végétaux utiles à la médecine et des espèces nuisibles à l’homme, vénéneuses ou parasites, précédée de considérations sur l’organisation et la classification des végétaux (2. éd.). Paris : J.-B. Baillière et fils.
- Schneider, A., & California. State Board of Forestry. (1912). Pharmacal plants and their culture. Sacramento : Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing.
- Velásquez, M. A., & Maldonado, A. (1920). Contribución al estudio de la materia médica peruana. [Fasciculo I-III. Lima : Sanmarti y ca.
- Youngken, H. W. (Heber W. (1918). Pharmaceutical botany (2d ed., and enl., enl.with 195 illustrations.). Philadelphia : P. Blakiston’s Son & Co.
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- A Telling of Wonders: Teratology in Western Medicine through 1800
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This exhibit examines the evolution of teratology (i.e. the study of perceived abnormalities in the natural world, both real and imagined) through the eyes of physicians and philosophers. How have they considered and how have they intertwined different interpretations in their representations and explanations of wonders from Antiquity to the end of the 18th century?
This richly illustrated exhibit includes pamphlets, rare broadsides, and significant books in the history of teratology drawn from the extensive collections of The New York Academy of Medicine Library.
Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Reference Librarian, Historical Collections, conceived, researched, and developed “A Telling of Wonders: Teratology in Western Medicine through 1800” physical exhibit. Open and free to the public, the exhibit was on display from November 1, 1999 to February 15, 2000 at the New York Academy of Medicine Library. Shortly after, the current online exhibit was created based on the physical exhibit.
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- Morse's Yellow Dock the Great Blood Purifier and Kidney Remedy
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- 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
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- Gemel book of recipes : autograph manuscript signed, circa 1660-1700
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- This English manuscript contains approximately 91 culinary recipes, as well as a few household and medical recipes. Most of the recipes are for dishes commonly served at banquets, with approximately 55 of the 91 culinary recipes being fruit preserves and similar conceits.
- Subjects (LC)
- Manuscripts, English -- 17th century, Cooking, English
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- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
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- 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 and a steamboat. There is a crescent moon in the sky to to the left. The square image is framed by overlaid reeds, grasses, and a white flower. The back describes the ailments the items can cure.
- Conditions Cured (LC)
- Asthenia, Constipation, Depression, Headache, Indigestion, Insomnia, Neurasthenia
- Subjects (LC)
- Advertising—Medicine, Boats And Boating, Flowers, Nature, Ocean, Rocks, Sailboats, Steamboats, Water
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- WH326
- Collection
- William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
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- Potions
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Professor Snape reminds his students at the beginning of class that potions are not just a lot of wand-waving, but begin with careful attention to ingredients and technique. His recipes rely on a number of plant- and animal-based ingredients, many commonly found in early modern books. Antidotes and spells can be found in a variety of genres in the Academy Library’s collection, including cookbooks, herbals, and natural histories.
Disclaimer: This exhibition is not licensed or endorsed by Warner Bros. or J.K. Rowling.
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- Medicine at Ground Level: State Medical Society Journals
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- The Academy contributed 716 state society medical journals to the Medical Heritage Library as part of the Medicine at Ground Level: State Medical Societies, State Medical Journals, and the Development of American Medicine, 1900-2000.