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Title page and frontispiece of A Narrative, of the Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson. The frontispiece on the left page has a head and shoulders, right pose of Samuel Thomson.
Open to show the title page of Homeopathy, and its kindred delusions by Oliver Wendell Holmes and the bleed-through of a letter opposite of the title page.
A group of four physicians sit in consultation, two with walking sticks to their noses, while the patient looks on from his bed.
Title page of The Provocation and the Reply; or Allopathy Versus Physio-Medicalism in a Review of Prof. M.B. Wright's Remarks at the Dedication of the Cincinnati New Hospital, January 8th, 1869.
Pages iv and 5 of The Practice of the Water-Cure by James Wilson, M.D. and James Manby Gully. Page iv is the end of the preface while page 5 is the chapter on the history of Priessnitz, and the introduction of the water cure.
Man at the water cure is standing under a shower; an attendant is holding a towel and closing the door to the shower. At the bottom in black lettering it is written The Rain Bath. 'You must be shut in for 15 minutes! Sir.'
A man at the water cure is sitting in a sitz bath wrapped in a wet sheet with his trousers around his ankles. A watering can is next to him. In the background is a bath tub. At the bottom is black lettering is written Sitz Bath and Wet Sheet 6 o'clock winters morn. This is delightful very!
Title page of Remarks on the Abracadabra of the Nineteenth Century by William Leo-Wolf featuring an illustration of a man writing homeopathia on a scroll adding a letter on each line.
Pages 78 and 79 of the American Medical Biography detailing the medical schools in the United States.
Title page from A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania by Joseph Carson
Title page of The Reform-Medical Practice: with a History of Medicine, from the earliest period to the present time, and a synopsis of principles on which the new practice is founded by the Faculty of the Reform Medical College of Georgia.
A man is being beaten with a stick by another man; a third man stands to the left holding a watch, timing the beating; on the floor and on the wall are additional sticks.
While the patient (M. Jobard) lies in bed dying from acute indigestion, the homeopath grabs the allopath by the collar, as a quarrel has developed over the method of treatment.
Child, head and shoulders, full face.with the title Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at the top.
Woman, half-length, left pose, full face; holding Cushman's Menthol Inhaler.
Two children playing outside; fence and house in background. The words Cocaine Toothache Drops instantaneous cure is written in black lettering on the fence.
Black and white half length, full face, seated at desk covered with books and papers, hand to chin of William Osler.
Pages 552 and 553 of The Life of Sir William Osler by Harvey Cushing. Page 553 features snapshots of Osler at the bedside by T. W. Clarke. The four snapshots of bedside visits are titled inspection, palpatation, ausculation, and contemplation.
Two Centuries of American Medicine 1776-1976 by James Bordley, III, M.D., and A. McGehee Harvey, M.D. open on pages 20 and 21 to show the section on efforts to effect improvement of medical education 1840-1870. On page 21 is an exterior view of the Chemical Laboratory of the University of Michigan in the 1870s.
Black and white photograph of a pharmacology laboratory featuring students at various tables performing scientific experiments.
Black and white photograph of a group portrait of unidentified Johns Hopkins Medical School graduating class with (left to right) professors Harvey Cushing, Howard Kelly, Sir William Osler, and William S. Thayer seated in foreground.
Volume five of the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital open to page 72 and 73 featuring an article by Robert Fletcher. On page 73 is an illustration of four views of hematology cells.
Title page and frontispiece of An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays by William Osler. The frontispiece is a black and white engraving of the head and shoulders right pose of John Bassett.
Cream colored title page of Epoch-Making Contributions to Medicine, Surgery and the Allied Sciences, being reprints of those communications which first conveyed epoch-making observations to the scientific world, together with biographical sketches of the observers by Charles N.B. Camac.
Pages 34 and 35 of A Year with Osler 1896-1897: Notes taken at his Clinics in The Johns Hopkins Hospital by Joseph H. Pratt featuring clinical notes.
Volume 34 of The Physician and Surgeon, a professional medical journal open to pages 144 and 145. Page 144 has a head and shoulders photograph of Johann Flintermann. Page 145 begins an article by Lewis S. Pilcher titled An Antitoxin for Medical Commercialism.
Black and white photograph of Dr. Harvey Cushing dressed in medical scrubs and wearing gloves standing at the bedside of a young patient lying on their side with bandages on their head and covered with white sheets. There is a baby doll leaning up against the patient.
Title page of volume 1 of Annals of Medical History. It features an oval sculture in the center of the bust of Hieronymus Fracastorius.
Caricature of Sir William Osler above Johns Hopkins Hospital as an angel.
Exterior view of a red building. Trees line the front facade; U.S. flag hangs in front of the building; trolley tracks are in the foreground.
Interior view of Library and Museum of the Surgeon General's Office. John Shaw Billings is sitting at a table in the middle of Library Hall; Thomas W. Wise sits at a desk resting his elbow on the back of the chair. The three tier stacks are in the background, portraits are hanging off the second tier. A book truck with a duster is on the ground floor. Tables and chairs are in the foreground of the reading room. Windows run along the walls on all three tiers. There appears to be a sky light.
An Introduction to the History of Medicine, with Medical Chronology, Bibliographic Data and Test Questions by Fielding Garrison open to page 134 and 135. On page 134 on the left side is an illustration of a man with zodiac signs drawn over his body. On page 135 are two illustrations on the bottom. The left one is showing the points for blood-letting under the signs of the Zodiac. The right illustration is wound man showing a man with wounds from many different kinds of weapons.
John Shaw Billings: A Memoir by Fielding Garrison open to page 296 and 297 describing the beginning of the New York Public Library.
Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office open to show pages 54 and 55 showing the citations for medicines.
Group portrait: left to right, William Henry Welch (seated), Fielding Hudson Garrison, John Rathbone Oliver, Oswei Temkin, and Henry E. Sigerest (seated).
Exterior view of the Welch Memorial Library. Cars are parked on both sides of a street in front of the library; small trees are around the outside of the library; grass and a fence are in the foreground.
A black and white photograph of the .Victor Robinson standing, three quarter length, front; hands in pockets.
Plain wrapper cover of Pioneers of Birth Control in England and America by Victor Robinson. A cream sticker with the NLM call number is in the upper left corner of the cover.
Page 37 of Henry E. Sigerist's book Civilization and Disease which discusses the importance of physical environment.
Pages 94 and 95 of Henry Sigerist's Medicine and Human Welfare book. These pages discuss his views on all citizens' right to health.
The purple cover of An Essay on Hasheesh: Historical and Experimental by Victor Robinson. The title is at the top of the cover in gilt. A cream sticker with the NLM call number is in the upper left corner of the cover.
Page 172 and an illustrated page opposite page 172 of The History of Miners' Diseases: A Medical and Social Interpretation by George Rosen, M.D. (1910-1977), with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist, M.D. The top illustration is ofthree Belgain Miners in a mine. Two of the miners are using a pickaxe while the third pushes a coal cart toward a man with a pony. The bottom image is of a position of a coal miner while at work. A man lies on his side holding a pickaxe. A lantern rests near his feet.
Head and shoulders, full face black and white photograph of Richard Harris Shryock. The photograph is autographed in the bottom right corner.
Color cover of Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp and Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995 by Louis Galambos with Jane Eliot Sewell featuring a head and shoulders right side view of a man in a white lab coat looking at a microscope.
Black and white photograph of Charles D. O'Malley half length, turned to right, wearing glasses; seated at desk, reading book; in front of bookcase.
Black and white photograph of Owsei Temkin. It is a half length, with Temkin seated at a table with his arms on table in front of bookcase.
Owsei Temkin, MD, seated on the left, faces interviewer on right.
Cream colored cover of Dying for Work: Worker's Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, editors.
No Magic Bullet by Allan M. Brandt open to show two pages of four veneral disease posters.
Color photograph of Susan Lederer shaking President Bill Clinton's hand. At the bottom is written To Susan with appreciation and it is signed Bill Clinton.
Pages 410 and 411 of Lawrence O. Gostin, Peter S. Arno, and Allan M. Brandt's article FDA Regulation of Tobacco Advertising and Youth Smoking: Historical, Social, and Constitutional Perspectives.
Title page of the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments ' Final Report: Executive Summary and Guide to Final Report featuring the list of the committee members on the inside cover opposite the title page.
Cream colored cover of Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz.
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Open to show the title page of Homeopathy, and its kindred delusions by Oliver Wendell Holmes and the bleed-through of a letter opposite of the title page.

Homϗpathy, and its kindred delusions; Two lectures delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, 1842

A faculty member at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) had no patience with homeopathy, the leading mid-century sectarian challenge to "regular" medicine. He thought that homeopathy, derived from the late 18th-century writings of German physician Samuel Hahnemann, whose practitioners believed a disease could be cured by a substance that produces symptoms similar to the disease in healthy people, represented a backwards-sliding regression in medicine, not an advance of any sort in either theory or therapy.