From Richard R. Madden’s Phantasmata: or, Illusions and fanaticisms of Protean forms, productive of great evils (1857).
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From the Ralston Health Club’s Companion book of complete membership in the Ralston Health Club : in seventeen departments ; being a complete study of the natural causes and the natural cures of disease, without medicines or apparatus of any kind (1895).
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From Horatio G. Kern’s Catalogue of surgical and dental instruments, elastic trusses, syringes, &c. : manufactured by Horatio G. Kern, No. 25 North Sixth Street, above Commerce, Philadelphia (1869).
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From Edward L. Ormerod’s British social wasps, an introduction to their anatomy and physiology, architecture, and general natural history, with illustrations of the different species and their nests (1868).
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From Guyot-Daubès’ Curiosités physiologiques : les hommes-phénomènes : force, agilité, adresse : hercules, coureurs, sauteurs, nageurs, plongeurs, gymnastes, équilibristes, disloqués, jongleurs, avaleurs de sabres, tireurs (1885).
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From Matthieu Orfila’s Leçons faisant partie du cours de médecine légale (1821).
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From Moritz Borochardt’s Osteoplastischer verschluss grosser bruchpforten (1898).
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From Arthur Schueller’s Roentgen Diagnosis of Diseases of the Head (1918).
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From Plymmon S. Hayes’ Electricity and the Methods of Its Employment in Removing Superfluous Hair and Other Facial Blemishes (1880).
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Gérard de Lairesse’s original drawing for Govert Bidloo’s Anatomia humani corporis … (Amsterdam, 1685). Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé.
The Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé (BIU Santé) in Paris, the largest medical library in France with important history of medicine collections and programs, is connecting its users to the Medical Heritage Library by harvesting MHL’s metadata from Internet Archive to allow searching of its content. Continue reading
