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Austin Flint
Compendium of Percussion and Auscultation
$125

And They Thought This War Was the Last One

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[World War I]. Anonymous.
A WAR NURSE'S DIARY. Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital.
$145

Goddess Diana / Artemis Huntress Advertising Fan

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$100 or less
Goddess of the Moon, Grace, and Modesty... in a Diaphanous Nightie
Sexy Diana / Artemis the Huntress: "The HUNT for Relief of Colds Stops with 666!", "666" Products: Liquid Salve - Tablets - Nose Drops - Salve / Cardboard Advertising Fan
$58

Quack Medical Pamphlet - Dr David Kennedy's Cure

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$100 or less
1880-90s Quack Medical Pamphlet by Dr David Kennedy for “His Favorite Remedy”
SOLD

unlicensed medical ineptitude in Cuiba

Robert HOGAN (b. 1800)
[Cuba] Strictures on the present state of the medical profession among the foreign practitioners in Havana, only three other copies recorded
$150
$100 or less
Wigglesworth, Edward, M.D.
MEDICAL / SCIENCE Auto-Inoculation of Vegetable Parasites of the Skin and the Clinical Testimony for Their Identity or Non-Identity, Early Microbiological Theory and Medical Experimentation
$50
$100 or less
Lynn Hospital Charity Ball Souvenir, 1885
$50

Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil 1800's Trade Card

$100 or less
Transformation Novelty Advertising: B & A / With & Without / Comic Humor: Sad to Happy !
Rennes "Pain Killing Magic Oil" Cure-All Con Artist: Before & After Remedy, Quack Cure Patent Medicine Bottle Theme Metamorphic Victorian Trade Card SR.M.mo
SOLD

Vision Through Time

Wood, Casey A. (Translator)
Memorandum Book Of A Tenth Century Oculist: For The Use Of Modern Ophthalmologists, A Translation of the Tadhkirat of Ali ibn Isa of Baghdad, the Most Complete , Practical and Original of All Early Textbooks on the Eye and its Diseases
$300

Bread for Charity

$100 or less
Hillbilly and You: Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Large Graphic Advertising Sign
$100

Thomsonian Practice of Midwifery by Comfort 1845

J.W. Comfort, M.D
Thomsonian Practice of Midwifery, and Treatment of Complaints Peculiar to Women and Children 1845
$225

Whale Teeth Dental History Victorian Trade Card

Dr. O.H. Stevens, Surgeon Dentist, Bradford, Vermont
RARE: 1880's -  "...constructing teeth on Whalebone...., 19th Century "Dental Notice"  Victorian Advertising Trade Card SR.M.wt
$175

Quack Cigarette Hay Fever Remedy

$100 or less
Front Cigar Box Label from a Marshall's CUBEB Cigarettes Counter Display Box
Women: "SMOKE - A REMEDY - For Asthma... Marshall's Prepared Cubeb Cigarettes", Health & Remedy tobacco product cards are historically significant!
$58

Union Prisoners

Narrative of Privations and sufferings of United States Officers and Soldiers while Prisoners of War in the hands of the Rebel Authorities
$3000

1883 Paso Robles San Luis Obispo California

Moses Appel
Hot & Cold Sulphur Springs Illustrated Birds-Eye Cover , Letter, El Paso De Robles Proprietors Black Burn Bros & James. D.E. Barger M.D. resident Physician.
SOLD

Lake California Pleasure Resort Letter Sheet

J. Craig - Manager - The Switzerland of America - The Queen of American Health and Pleasure Resorts
1896 Highland Springs Health Pleasure Resort 3 Illustrated pages Lettersheet Rail Road, Stage and Illustrated R&R Map Cover - Take your Guns and bathing suits with you to the springs., Thousands Cured by the Waters at Highland Springs - include Nature's Kidney, Stomach and Bladder Restorer. Beats the world on these troubles. A Sure cure for dyspepsia in its most aggravated form.
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Nursing In The Confederacy

Elizabeth Smith Trueheart
Sister Of Confederate Congressman Offers Nursing Services To Alabama Gov. Moore: "Woman's Mission Is To Soothe"
$795

Li Shizhen, considered father of Chinese Medicine

Li Shizhen
[China. Medicine] Li Shizen's secret medicine book for treating trauma (ca. 1877), an overview of the human body according to traditional Chinese medicine.
$425

19th Century Boston Toilet Bowl Advertising Card

Oversized Business Calling Card: "Our Mr. Weeden will call on you in a few days...."
Phillips & Weeden Sanitary Goods, Plumbers' Supplies, Boston, RARE - Early Indoor Plumbing "Crockery" Manufacturer - Historically Important!
SOLD

With Additional Ephemera and Notes

Reeves, John
The Art of Farriery Both in Theory and Practice, Containing the Causes, Symptoms, and Cure of all Diseases incident to Horses...
$250

Rare nude photographs from Germany in the 30s

Reichert, Kurt
In Licht und Sonne, 1. Folge: Bei Sport und Spiel. 12 Originalaufnahmen
$650

Kickapoo Indian Quack Medicine Dream Book

$100 or less
"Indian Oil" Quackery
1890's Kickapoo Indian Oil Dream Book - Healy & Bigelow, New Haven, Conn., Wild West Traveling Indian Medicine Show's Illustrated Graphic Advertising Publication - Testimonials, Native American Lore, Trivia, etc.
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Civil War Next-of-Kin Letter

Joel F. Crocke
1865 – Letter from a Union soldier to the wife of a friend informing her of the circumstances of her husband’s death, List price has been discounted for this show.
$225

Quack Cocaine: Coca Wine Brain Stimulant

Cocaine: Coca Wine Stimulant Cure-All
Coca-Cola: A Competing 19th Century Narcotic Tonic: Hazard, Hazard & Co., New York City Trade Card, Drugstore Agent:  John L. Wischerth, Pharmacist & Chemist, 1076 Bedford cor. Greene Aves., Brooklyn, N.Y.
$275

Disinfecting Tuberculosis Patient Letters

$100 or less
Dr. R. H. McCutcheum
1955 – Letter from the Pennsylvania Department regarding the unnecessity of disinfecting mail originating at a Tuberculosis Sanitorium, List price has been discounted for this show.
$100

Great for Museum Exhibit or Den Display

SCARCE: Cardboard Die-Cut "Statuette" Patent Medicine Store Display Sign
Dr. Ayer's Sarsaparilla 1884 "Chromo Lithograph" Stand-up Easel Promotion Advertising Memorabilia, 8 x 11 inch - "The Old Folks at Home" in Rocking Chair with Bottle and Ayer's Almanac
$225

Famous Women: Dr. Pierce's Discovery

$100 or less
Empowerment: 1920's World's Dispensary Medical, Buffalo, NY- "Don't envy a pretty woman- be one."
Illustrated Graphic Book: "Great Deeds Accomplished by Women", ... and How Dr. Pierce's Golden Discovery can help a girl win a man!
$48

Patent Medicine Advertising Broadside

$100 or less
Dr. Ira Hatch
Circa 1870 – Broadside advertising patent medicine cure for all diseases of the chest, lungs, and liver, List price has been discounted for this show.
$100

Cremation!

Sir Henry Thompson
Cremation: The Treatment of the Body After Death
$200
[ESALEN] Small Archive 1972-73 ESALEN INSTITUTE Big Sur & Florida ALAN WATTS Mushrooms
$185

Antique Palmer Cox Illustrated Advertising Card

$100 or less
Pond's Extract Liniment Cure-All, Fifth Ave., New York
Palmer Cox Animal Fireworks Alameda California Drugstore Cure Bottle Trade Card, "C.B. Elbe, Drugs, Park St., Alameda, Cal." / Drug Store Dealer Agent Imprint. / Reverse Poem Poetry Rhyme
$45

The Beginnings of American Ophthalmology in Print

Various
The American Journal of Ophthalmology, Volumes 1 - 6
$600

An incunable of neurology

Marshall HALL (1790-1857).
Lectures on the Nervous System and its Diseases, first US edition - rare on the market: no copies currently for sale, the last copy listed at auction was in 2007
$150
$100 or less
Luther V. Bell, et al.
(INSANITY) Annual Report of the Massachusetts General Hospital for the Year 1842, Includes the 25th Annual Report of the McLean Asylum for the Insane
$50

Physical Culturists: The Biohackers of Yesteryear

The Psychic-Expender Company. [Psycho-Expander] Fresh Air Beauty
$145

Peruvian Coca for the American Market

Dr. Manuel Zevallos Velasquez
Five Peruvian tems from pharmacist Manuel Zevallos Velasquez relating to Peruvian Coca [Cocaine][Elixir De Coca Peruana].
$475

Surgery of Sight

Wenzel, M. de
A Treatise on the Cataract; with Cases to Prove the Necessity of Dividing the Transparent Cornea, and the Capsule of the Crystalline Humour, Differently, in the Different Species of this Disease., Translated from the French with Many Additional Remarks by James Ware, Surgeon.
$400

Early Veterinary Practice

Anon.
Manuscript Veterinary Note Book 1827
$240

Rare collection of decorated skulls from Melanesia

Dr. Jacques Faivre
“Cranes Melanesiens et des Nouvelles-Hebrides” (Skulls from Melanesia and New Hebrides), decorated skulls from the collection of Dr. Jacques Faivre, Paris
$395

Treating STDs in St. Louis, 1878

$100 or less
Practische Beobachtungen uber Nervenschwäche und körperlicher Erschöpfung (Practical Observations on Nervous Debility & Physical Exhaustion)
$100

Health & Safety at Summer Camp

$100 or less
Housekeeping in Camp, A Manual of Practical Procedures to Safeguard Health
$65

Womens Health/ Cancer Treatment

Frederick Henry Gerrish
Cases Treated by the Lister Method
$250

Foundations of Ophthalmc Pathology

Wardrop, James
Essays on the Morbid Anatomy of the Human Eye
$500

How to Treat Inflammations

Dr. O. H. Murphy
Invaluable Secrets of a Doctor Revealed
$150

Alcoholics Anonymous 1948 First Ed 12th Printing

Alcoholics Anonymous 1948 First Edition Twelfth Printing with Dust Jacket
$765

WORLD WAR II HOSPITAL TRAINING

A. Alfred Solomon, M.D
1942 Correspondence from an Army Doctor in OCS Training to His Wife
$150

Correspondence re: Nobel Prize Recommendation

F. R. Harris & George Zuelzer
1937 to 1944 Cardiac Hormone Therapy archive, hope for Nobel Prize as one denied for diabetes treatment
$350

Death in Philadelphia

Emerson, Gouverneur, M.D.
Medical statistics; consisting of estimates relating to the population of Philadelphia, with its changes as influenced by the deaths and births, during ten years, viz. from 1821 to 1830, inclusive., With a presentation inscription linking two social activists of the time.
$300

Holy Grail of Patent Medicine Advertisements

Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer Chromolithograph Advertising Sign on Tin
SOLD

A form of acupuncture

Baunscheidt, Carl; John Linden (expositor)
Der Baunscheidtismus., "Von Erfinder dieser neuen Heillehre." (By the discoverer of this new medical teaching.)
$150