Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Mar 17th, 2016 Comments Off on Acupuncture Anesthesia
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. In the 1950s Chinese physicians in the People’s Republic of China began to wonder if acupuncture, which was typically used to treat pain, could actually be used to prevent pain during surgical procedures, which led to […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Feb 18th, 2016 Comments Off on Watch out for Vipers
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Manual medico-legal des poisons… is a curious French text that appears to be primarily about the legal aspects of poisoning. It also includes instructions on how to treat snakebites, the bites of rabid animals, as […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Jan 28th, 2016 Comments Off on “50 Centuries of Service to Mankind”
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. A History of Pharmacy in Pictures, a depiction of the history of the pharmaceutical profession through oil paintings, was first conceived by pharmacist and journalist George A. Bender before the Second World War. He was inspired […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Oct 22nd, 2015 Comments Off on Story of Eleonore
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. L’homme considéré dans l’état d’aliénation mentale : ouvrage divisée en trois livres … is a 19th-century French volume about the state of insanity, which starts off with a frontispiece of the beautiful Eleonore. As the text accompanying her visage […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Sep 24th, 2015 Comments Off on Heister’s wedge
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Heister’s mouth-wedge was a popular tool used in dentistry in the late 19th and early 20th-century. The purpose of the tool was to keep the mouth wedged open in case a mouth-prop slipped, though one had to […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Feb 19th, 2015 Comments Off on Medicine for the masses
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Ever wondered where to buy first aid supplies, medical equipment, or prescriptions if you lived in 19th-century Europe? Look no further than Guide Medical, translated as a Medical Guide to aid recovery in case of accidents or illness […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Feb 5th, 2015 Comments Off on She’a a maniac, maniac and that’s for sure!
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. The Maniac pictured here is a reprint of the original 1909 edition which claims to be an account of madness from a patient’s point of view. Mahlon Blaine is the actual illustrator of The Maniac […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Botany Libraries, Houghton Library on Oct 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on Three times as nice
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. We are lucky to have found three first editions of Traité du chanvre in different bindings as we continue to unpack and catalog items from Santo Domingo boxes. From left to right the images reflect the covers of these […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Sep 18th, 2014 Comments Off on Before there was Botox
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Before botox, plastic surgery, and aestheticians, L’horreur!, women were forced to combat aging and maintain beauty the old fashioned way- with tips and remedies from publications such as Comment se guérir? This French publication by the mysterious Dr. Druah […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Aug 7th, 2014 Comments Off on Conjoined twins
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Johann Conrad Brunner was a Swiss anatomist that is best known for his work with the pancreas and duodenum. This fold out plate displays both anatomical and skeletal conjoined twin fetuses, which is part of Brunner’s medical […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Jun 12th, 2014 Comments Off on A heavenly cure?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. As you look at the cover of this pamphlet you might wonder what divine content might hide within its covers, well that would be… The Pink Pills! The Pink Pills for Pale People were introduced in […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Apr 3rd, 2014 Comments Off on Whodunit and howdunit?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Alexandre Lacassagne was a French physician and criminologist in the 19th-century. He founded the Lacassagne School of Criminology which was based in Lyon, France and focused on medical jurisprudence and criminal anthropology. He quite famously gave […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Jan 14th, 2014 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Dec 11th, 2013 1 Comment »
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 […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Nov 26th, 2013 Comments Off on 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 […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Oct 29th, 2013 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Médecine et pharmacopée en Chine is comprised of three volumes that are each bound with colored cord inside an illustrated paper cover. Published in early 20th-century France the volumes appear to explore medicine and pharmacology in China. Each […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Oct 7th, 2013 Comments Off on Be our guest, be our guest….
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Description of the Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons of the Society of Friends is a volume by Samuel Tuke who was a Quaker and mental-health reformer in early 19th-century England. Tuke believed in this new […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Jun 28th, 2013 Comments Off on I’m keeping an eye on you….
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Les borgnes de la guerre : prothèse chirurgicale & plastique (Valois et Rouveix) is a valuable contribution to military ophthalmology particularly regarding the physical reconstruction of visual organs that were damaged in wars. Written by Gaston Valois, who […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on May 20th, 2013 Comments Off on Blood and beauty secrets?
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Searching for information about flowers, medicine, and the secret to great skin? Look no further than this beautifully illustrated French volume Les fleurs et secretz de medecine. Until the late 19th-century the practice of bloodletting was regularly used […]
Posted in Countway Library, Harvard Medical School on Apr 12th, 2013 1 Comment »
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Joel Dorman Steele, Ph.D. was the author of a series of textbooks in late 19th-century America including Hygienic physiology : with special reference to the use of alcoholic drinks and narcotics. It was meant to be used not […]
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