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From François Tolet’s Traite’ de la lithotomie, ou, De l’extraction de la pierre, hors de la vessie : enrichy de figures necessaires pour representer la maniére de sonder, les instrumens propres, le malade dans l’operation : la ponction du perinée, & les differentes methodes de tirer la pierre : avec les appareils, les remedes preservatifs du calcul, & les medicamens pour les taillez (1686).

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Digital Highlights: “The Wilderness Cure”

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Title page of “The Wilderness Cure.”

At the end of the nineteenth century, concerns were common over the enfeeblement of the human form — often the male human form — particularly of those who lived in cities or worked in factories or offices, those “new” and “unnatural” environments.

In 1881, Marc Cook, an office-worker in New York City, wrote The Wilderness Camp, his own personal tale of health revitalized through retreat from the city and return to the country. Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Seasonal Ailments

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List of other “American Health Primers” from the front of “The Summer and Its Diseases.”

Welcome to summer! It came in with a genuine heatwave here in the Northeast, but  heat exhaustion and sunburn aren’t the only ailments prevalent during the summer; Dr. James C. Wilson of Philadelphia wrote a whole book on the subject called (cheerfully enough!) The Summer and Its Diseases. Continue reading