Category: Images

The cover of Ayurvedic medicines prepared by Ayurveda Marthanda Bhishangmani Pandit D. Gopalacharlu, A.V.S., at the Madras Ayurvedic Laboratory, Georgetown, Madras (1909):

A medical “joke” book, complete with illustrations!

Frontispiece to volume one, issue four of Commentarii de rebus in scientia naturali et medicina gestis in 1752.

The bookplate from an 1823 copy of The book of fate — the plate alone is worth a look!

The cover of E A Wallis Budge’s 1930 Amulets and superstitions.

New to our collections are some items from the American Philosophical Society via the For the Health of the New Nation project. This is one of those items: page proofs for William Cullen’s Practice of Physic.

Click on the title of the book above or on the image below to see the page proofs and click here to see editions of Cullen’s work already in the MHL.

The “horoscope of a male child,” from Medical astrology by Heinrich Däath, published in 1907.

From Montague Summers’s 1928 The discovery of witches: a study of Master Matthew Hopkins, commonly call’d Witch finder generall.

The Vaccine Watchman from W D Stokes and his Herbal Dispensary in Tunbridge Wells in 1888.