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Title: Wrench, Benjamin
ID: ladd_512
Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

Title: X-Zalia, the Wonderful New Remedy [from verso]
Description: Trade card printed on two sides advertising X-Zalia, a panacea.
Subjects (LC): Actresses, Photographs
Manufacturer: X-Zalia Medicine Co.
Language: English
ID: WH386
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Young, Thomas
ID: ladd_513
Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

Title: Young, Thomas
ID: ladd_514
Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

Title: Younge, William
ID: ladd_670
Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

Title: Your Cough or Cold can be Cured by Using Hartshorn's Cough Balsam
Description: Trade card advertising Hartshorn's Cough Balsam featuring an image of a tree with songbirds. In the background there is a body of water with a house on the shore. The back outlines why Hartshorn's Cough Balsam has gained popularity in the past, the ailments it cures, and the price.
Conditions Cured (LC): Bronchitis, Cold (Disease), Cough, Influenza, Lungs—Congestion, Pneumonia, Whooping Cough
Subjects (LC): Advertising—Medicine, Birds, Carriage Houses, Nature, Trees, Water And Architecture
ID: WH137
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Yours for Health Lydia E. Pinkham
Description: Trade card advertising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills featuring the portrait of an elderly woman gazing into the distance towards the left-hand side of the card. She has a lace shawl pinned around her shoulders and neck. 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, Brooches, Clothing And Dress, Lace And Lacemaking, Portraits, Shawls
ID: WH188
Collection: William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards

Title: Zodaic Man

Title: Zsámboki, János
ID: ladd_416
Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

Title: Zsámboki, János
ID: ladd_417
Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

Title: Zsámboki, János
ID: ladd_418
Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

Title: Zusner, Adam
ID: ladd_515
Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

Title: Zwinger, Theodor
ID: ladd_516
Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints

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

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

[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.

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: [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: 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

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