Digital Highlights: Health Aristocracy

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Title page of “The Aristocracy of Health.”

“The new blood cell will be red of color and round of form.” (9) With these words, Mary Newton Foote Henderson exhorts the readers of her 1904 The Aristocracy of Health; a study of physical culture, our favorite poisons, and a national and international league for the advancement of physical culture to work towards a holistic vision of physical culture. Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Stars and Tongues

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Page from Comstock’s “The Tongue of Time.”

Joseph Comstock’s The tongue of time, and star of the states: a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities, remains of giants, geology, volcanoes, Egyptian and Indian magic, diet, dress, drinks, diseases, sleep, somnambulism, trances, resuscitation. : Also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who told colors by the touch  is one of those texts which best speaks for itself. Continue reading