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Medicinal wells were believed to be essential for people's health, with the water containing its mineral contents used for soaking, washing, cooking and drinking. Whenever a new well was discovered, it was necessary to examine and evaluate its contents to assess how well it could serve the health needs of the consumer. This paper, An Account of a new… Read more about this item

To spread information to the medical community in the 18th century, doctors would often write up their experiences with strange, or unexpected medical cases and submit the papers to the Royal Society of London for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. This paper, "An Account of the Case of a Boy troubled with convulsive Fits cured by… Read more about this item

To spread information to the medical community in the 18th century, doctors would often write up their experiences with strange, or unexpected medical cases and submit the papers to the Royal Society of London for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. This paper, "A Further Account of the Effects of Electricity in the Cure of some Diseases:… Read more about this item

To spread information to the medical community in the 18th century, doctors would often write up their experiences with strange, or unexpected medical cases and submit the papers to the Royal Society of London for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. This paper, "An Account of an extraordinary Case of a diseased Eye: in a Letter to… Read more about this item

This First Edition copy of "The Brandy Drops; or, Charlie's Pledge" - A Temperance Story by Aunt Julia was written by Julia Colman and published in 1858 by Nelson & Phillips of New York in conjunction with the Hitchcock & Walden Sunday-School Department of Cincinnati. The book, which measures 4 inches wide by 6 inches tall by 3/8 inches thick,… Read more about this item

This First Edition copy of A Practice of Modern Physic, Reduced To The Most Simple Form, Consistent With Efficacy, by Henry Wilkins (Student of Medicine, 1791 and 1792) was published and printed by Parry Hall of Philadelphia in 1793. The book, which measures approximately 4 inches wide by 6 ½ inches tall by ½ inch thick, contains 94 pages of… Read more about this item

To speed information to the medical community in the 18th century, doctors would often write up their experiences with strange or unexpected medical cases and submit the papers to the Royal Society of London for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. This paper, "An Account of Two Extraordinary Cases of Gall-Stones" by James Johnstone, M.D. of Kidderminster.… Read more about this item

The World is currently recovering from an active pandemic that had the world's political and medical leaders searching for solutions. The concerns of detecting, treating and curing the victims of this pandemic bring to mind the similar concerns that faced populations in earlier times when unexpected plagues, or pestilences, that decimated the population fell upon them. In 1665-1666, for example,… Read more about this item

Extracts of Several Letters of Mordach Mackenzie, M.D., Concerning the Plague in Constantinople consists of letters sent by Dr. Mordach Mackenzie to his correspondents in London (Dr. Clephane and Dr. Mead) in which he described the prevalence and effects of various episodes of the plague. The Mackenzie letters are dated in 1750 and 1751. In early 1752, Dr. Clephane took… Read more about this item

The 18th century saw new techniques being developed to deal with many of the medical problems that were afflicting the population. This paper, A Second Account of the New Method of Opening the Cornea, for Taking Away the Cataract; by Samuel Sharp, Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and F. R. S., dealt with a new method for removing cataracts from a… Read more about this item

A contagious distemper, raging through cattle, was noted to be similar to smallpox in its means of spreading. This led to the consideration of whether inoculation of the cattle was able to limit the spread of the disease to prevent the repeated reinfection of cattle who had survived an initial infection. The paper A Discourse on the Usefulness of Inoculation… Read more about this item

History has the characteristic of often repeating itself, and the experience with the malignant fever problem at the Newgate jail in the 1750s was not much different than today's pandemic problem with the transmission of Covid-19 among people in close contact. In Newgate's case, the solution required reducing the concentrations of whatever agents were causing the infections by improving the… Read more about this item

This First Edition, First Printing, Signed copy of "Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe", by Tom Batiuk, was published in 2007 by the Kent State University Press of Kent, Ohio as No. 12 in its Literature and Medicine Series. The book is a follow-on to Batiuk's previous comic strip books featuring Funky Winkerbean, but in this book the comic strips start… Read more about this item

Reconstructing the Crippled Soldier by Douglas C. McMurtrie was published by the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men shortly after the end of World War I. It discusses, in both text and photographs, the work that was done to return the seriously injured veterans to a productive life. The booklet, which measures approximately 5 x 7 ½ inches, contains… Read more about this item

This paper consists of two letters, both read before the Royal Society on April 21, 1757. They are: Copy of a Letter from John Pringle, M.D. F.R.S. to Dr. Robert Whytt, Professor of medicine in the University of Edinburgh, and F.R.S. relating to the Case of the Right Honorable Lord Walpole; with Dr. Whytt's Answer. Communicated by Dr. Pringle. (The letter… Read more about this item

This paper, A remarkable Case of an Aneurism, or Disease of the principal Artery of the Thigh, occasioned by a Fall. To which is prefixed a short Account of the Uncertainty of the distinguishing Symptoms of this Disease. By Jos. Warner, F.R.S. and Surgeon to Guy'sHospital, was presented to the Royal Society on November 17, 1757 and published in… Read more about this item

To spread information to the medical community in the 18th century, doctors would often write up their experiences with strange, or unexpected medical cases and submit the papers to the Royal Society of London for publication in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. This paper, An Account of some extraordinary Tumors upon the Head of a labouring Man,… Read more about this item

"A Letter from Mr. William Sharp, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to James Parsons, M. D. F. R. S. containing an Account of a new-invented Instrument for fractured Legs" describes a device consisting of "two splints of strong pasteboard, made with glew, to be fastened upon a fractured leg, by three straps which surround the whole", which, according to the… Read more about this item