Author: Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook

Colorful illustration from 1870 advertisement for Keating’s balsam of horehound:

Beautifully colored cover of 1885 Henry’s household companion:

A souvenir of the visit of the American Medical Association to Detroit, June 7-10, 1892!

Cover of John H Appleton’s 1885 Laboratory handbook:

Check out this great pamphlet advertising The Fritz-sonian system which apparently comes in three parts: felt (the fabric), fluid (electro-magnetic), and food (“tonic, alterative, diuretic, and vitalizing!”)

The cover of Francisco L Gervile’s 1862 As molestias da pelle curadas : guia para todos que padecem de erupções cutaneas, de empigens, borbulbas, pruridos da pelle, salsugem, herpes purulentos, bolhas, etc., para se curarem radicalmente por um methodo prompto e seguro, resultados de uma pratica medica de cincoenta annos, sempre comprovada pela experiencia:

The cover photograph of the eponymous school from an 1892 pamphlet on the Iowa School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs.

The dramatic cover of The index to Wood’s Library of standard medical authors (1885):

The cover of Albert F Blaisdell’s 1894 The child’s book of health in easy lessons for schools.