This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Trephination is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, exposing the membrane that surrounds the skull in order to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases. Often referred to as a Read More
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(Shock)ing! therapy
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The use of electricity in medical treatment is hardly a new concept, Guillaume Duchenne was a French neurologist and developer of electrotherapy. Duchenne announced in 1855 that alternating current was more effective than a direct current for electrotherapeutic Read More
Atomic emergency
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. When I first looked at this cover I thought it was some sort of science-fiction title, but upon further inspection it is actually a guide on what to do in the event of an atomic emergency. The atomic Read More
Dr. Rose’s Sanitarium
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. For the Scientific Treatment and Cure of the Alcohol, Morphine, Opium, Chloral, and Cocaine Habits! Designed especially for the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse this pamphlet advertises the virtues of Dr. Rose’s Sanitarium. Located in bucolic Connecticut Read More
What’s for dinner?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Feeling a bit peckish? Why not try a delicious dish featuring Boletus edulis, which are fleshy mushroom-like fungi which have tubes in place of gills. They are often characterized as being “spongy underneath.” To make one version Read More