From Augustin Belloste and Thomas Sydenham’s Monsieur Belloste’s Hospital surgeon, as far as it treats of the gout, rheumatism, cholick, dropsy, stone, gravel, and venereal complaints … : to which are added Dr. Sydenham’s observations on the gout ; with proper notes on each ; this book is given gratis up one pair of stairs, at the sign of the famous anodyne necklace … and at Mr. Bradshaw’s Stoughton’s, & Daffy’s Elixir Ware-House .. (1737).… Continue reading
Any fan of E.F. Benson’s Lucia series will remember Daisy Quantock, Lucia’s next-door neighbor in the village of Riseholme. Benson describes Daisy as being a middle-aged woman in perfect health and therefore devoted to whatever diet or exercise fad comes her way. In the opening chapters of Queen Lucia, the first novel in the series, Daisy is a firm believer in cleansing, particularly in cleansing uric acid from her system. Her husband is quite impatient with the system… Continue reading
Click “play” below or follow the link to watch Lets Find Out: Cancer (1989). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From Samuel Sharp’s A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them : to which is prefix’d an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers (1740). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From Guillaume Bigourdan’s Gnomonique, ou traité théorique et pratique de la construction des cadrans solaires, suivi de tables auxiliaires relatives aux cadrans et aux calendriers (1922). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
This is a small book; but it contains as much reading as a large and heavy volume of five hundred pages, printed in large type. I mention this fact so that you will not mis-estimate the amount of labor I have performed to get it up. No one but myself can ever understand, or form a correct idea of, the research, study, experiment and experience that have been expended on these pages. Most authors probably… Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch The Both mechanical respirator (195?). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From Lever Brothers’ The “Sunlight” Year Book for 1898. A Treasury of Useful Information of Value to All Members of the Household. Including The Calendar and Kindred Matter, Universal History, Geography, Army and Navy, Science, Literature, Fine Arts, Architecture, Commerce, Agriculture, Medical, Sports and Pastimes, The Household, Port Sunlight, etc. Also Story by Conan Doyle. With Portraits and Numerous Illustrations. (1898). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Who doesn’t want to finish up the summer with a new skill? Why not try mesmerism! Thomas Welton is here to help with his 1884 Mental Magic: “The public again, after a lapse of 20 years, being much interested in the above subject, and having no clear explanation given to them on it or how to produce for themselves far higher Phenomena of the same class, I venture to hope that this work will not be unwelcome…”… Continue reading
Click “play” below or follow this link to listen to Greensboro Plant Opening (1973). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
