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The Marvel Violet Ray" -- Advertising Electrotherapy Quack Medical Device: [Quack Medical Devices, History of Vibrators and Devices Used for Masturbation, Electrotherapy]

New York, New York: Eastern Laboratories, Inc, 1920. Good. Light toning, letter folds, a couple nicks/short tears.. An illustrated advertising leaflet for "The Marvel Violet Ray", a "ray"-emitting device with different attachments, including rectal and vaginal attachments. For modern…
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Nerve Health Regained" - Advertising Medicine to High-End Clientele: [Pharmaceutical Advertising, Social Class in Advertising]

Claude L. Wheeler
New York, New York: The Bauer Chemical Company, 1912. Very good. Minor wear/chipping to extremities. Promotional booklet advertising the Bauer Chemical Company, with a focus on "nerve" health. Includes testimonials from physicians of royalty, David Belasco, famed authors, and high-ranking…
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1831 Report of the Boston Female Monitorial School -- Scarlet Fever Outbreak and Challenges of Running a School for Girls: [Women's Education in Boston, Scarlet Fever]

Boston, Massachusetts: Munroe and Francis, 1831. Good to very good. Sometime washed, with subsequent discoloration. Some chipping/tears from being sometime disbound.. A printed version of the report given at the annual meeting of the proprietors of the Boston Female Monitorial School, held…
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The Deaf and Dumb: or, a Collection of Articles Relating to the Condition of Deaf Mutes; Their Education, and the Principal Asylums Devoted to their Instruction

Mann, Edwin John
First edition of this collection of articles composed and compiled by Edwin John Mann, a deaf author and graduate of The American Asylum at Hartford for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford. Now known as the American School for the Deaf, the American Asylum at…
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CUSTOMIZED WITH UNRECORDED APOTHECARY DIRECTORY: Stichtse almanach op 't jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christi 1786; voorzien met de jaar- paarde- beeste- on Leer-markten, vacantien, vertrekken en aankomen der posten en bodens; het varen der trekschuiten en veerschepen; het afryden der postwagens, zo in 't sti

[48]; [24]; 96; 24 p. + [1] folding plate + folded apothecary handbill | 12mo | [A]^12 B^12; A^12; A^8 B^4 C-E^12; A^12 | Almanac: 120 x 75 mm Handbill: 178 x 127 mm --- A Dutch merchants' almanac for 1786, with an interleaved calendar providing dates, days, moon phases, and times of the…
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OPULENT MEDICAL DIPLOMA MANUSCRIPT | BOOK AND SEAL BOUND TO MATCH: In Christi nomine amen; Universis et singulis praesens hoc publicum doctoratus privilegium inspecturis, lecturis, vel audituris nos Albertus Ulich... [Manuscript diploma for Joseph Pateani]

[4] leaves (the last blank) + wax seal in case | 232 x 165 mm + 75 mm round seal box ---- A five-page parchment university diploma for one Joseph Pateani of Tarvisio, here honored by the medical college in Venice as a new Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy. It's a typically opulent example of…
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Collectorum medicinalium libri XVII qui ex magno septuaginta librorum volumine ad nostram aetatem soli pervenerunt, Ioanne Baptista Rasario medico Novariensi interprete

Oribasius
Venice: Paolo Manuzio [Paulus Manutius], 1555. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. 752pp. Oribasius's compilation of medical texts, prepared at the direction of the Roman emperor Julian, includes excerpts from Galen and Heraklas. Now recognized as a significant archive of such texts, many of which…
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REGIMEN SANITATIS MANUSCRIPT DOUBLES AS MEMO BOOK: Le regime de lescôle de Salerne [Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum]

with commentary by Arnaldus de Villanova
[1], 16-100, [4] p. (all after p. 60 blank) | 8vo | 161 x 105 mm ---- An unusual, late manuscript copy of the highly influential 12th-century medical treatise from the community at Salerno, generally considered the West's first medical school not affiliated with a religious house. At a time…
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[MEDICINE / PSYCHIATRY]. Of the Imagination: As a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of the Body; exemplified by Fictitious Tractors, and Epidemical Convulsions. [...] Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath

Haygarth, John, M.D.
Bath, England: Printed by R. Cruttwell, and sold by Cadell and Davies, London, 1800. First Edition. Very good. 8vo. [4], 43, [1] pp. (title-page and final page soiled and a little browned). Extracted from a binding, bound in recent pale brown wrappers in the antique style, preserved in blue…
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The Drama of Fluorine: Arch Enemy of Mankind

Leo Spira
Milwaukee, WI: Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, 1953. Very Good. Milwaukee, WI: Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); cloth tape over printed wrappers; 142 pp. Spine perished. Wrappers soiled with some rubbing to edges. Binding shaken; some…
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Luyties' Homeopathic Circular" - Advertising Early Homeopathic Remedies and Medical Equipment: [Homeopathic Medicine, History of Alternative Medicine]

St. Louis, Missouri: Luyties' Homeopathic Pharmacy, 1880. Very good. Light dust soiling, large closed short tear to spine.. October 1880 issue of "Luyties' Homeopathic Circular", a serial issued to promote homeopathic remedies sold at Luyties' Pharmacy. Features an amusing drawing on the…
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Original Friendship Album of a Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Sanitorium Patient

Harvey Troutman
Hamburg, PA, 1933. Very Good. Hamburg, PA: 1933. Small oblong octavo photo album (14.5x20.5cm); string-bound stiff brown pictorial card wrappers printed in gilt; [36]pp. stiff black leaves filled to completion with halftone photographs, four silver gelatin photographic snapshots, collages,…
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