Pain-Killer Almanac; a Facsimile Reproduction, Slightly Enl. of an 1868 Almanac
Pain-Killer Almanac; a Facsimile Reproduction, Slightly Enl. of an 1868 Almanac

Author: State Historical Society Of Iowa

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781230063652

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...taken anything that has done me so much good an your I.nan I'.al.-am. I uau not express the gratitude I Ii-el. I have not felt as weli for many years. I am so much better that I wanted you to know it; and I thank you maiiy tlmea for the benefit your medicine has been tome." 1! David Kiimobksmith, of Ellsworth, Fierce Co., Wls., writes ns March 21, ' 1864. lie says that he was sick for three years with a hard, dry cough, and, at times, a pain in his side aud breast, until last November. "I wa-s taken with severe pains in my breast. I called a doctor, who told me It was Consumption, aud there was no relief for me, aud I mustdie--that my right lung was entirely gone. I laid for a month in despair, thinking that I mnst leave my little J I family In this wicked world without care aud support. / nsed five bottles of "ft 'Javne's Expectorant and got /to relirf, until in February I happened to get one of 5 your Almanac, and rpad of the merits of ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM. I sent j to Red Wing, Minn., and got two bottles of it, and through its happy effect I ( waa brought to my teet again." Wm. N. Anget, Druggist, at Grand Haven, Mich., writes: "The subscriber was taken last October with a violent Asthma, induced, as my physician avers, by compounding drags, particularly Ipecac. My coughing was violent, and seemed to increase despite the remedies advised and taken. I saw by your Almanac that ALLEN'S LTJNQ BALSAM had been nsed with success In this disease, and on receipt of the BALSAM, about four weeks since, commenced taking it. Three days' nse brought me very sensible relief. I have nearly finished one bottle, and consider myself almost cared. I have no hesitation in recommending it to our cnstomers for any difficulty of...

An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform
An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform

Author: Christopher Hoolihan

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 9781580462846

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This is a catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of rare books dealing with 'popular medicine' in early America which is housed at the University of Rochester Medical School library. The books described in the catalogue were written by physicians and other professionals to provide information for the non-medical audience. The books taught human anatomy, hygiene, temperance and diet, how to maintain health, and how to cope with illness especially when no professional help was available. The books promoted a healthy lifestyle for the readers, giving guidance on everything from physical fitness and recreation to the special health needs of women. The collection consists of works dealing with reproduction (from birth control to delivering and caring for a baby), venereal disease, home-nursing, epidemics, and the need for public sex education.

Ars Medica
Ars Medica

Author: Richard Landon

Publisher: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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Our Kindred Creatures
Our Kindred Creatures

Author: Bill Wasik

Publisher: Knopf

Published: 2024-04-23

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0525659064

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A compassionate, sweeping history of the transformation in American attitudes toward animals by the best-selling authors of Rabid Over just a few decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the United States underwent a moral revolution on behalf of animals. Before the Civil War, animals' suffering had rarely been discussed; horses pulling carriages and carts were routinely beaten in public view, and dogs were pitted against each other for entertainment and gambling. But in 1866, a group of activists began a dramatic campaign to change the nation’s laws and norms, and by the century’s end, most Americans had adopted a very different way of thinking and feeling about the animals in their midst. In Our Kindred Creatures, Bill Wasik, editorial director of The New York Times Magazine, and veterinarian Monica Murphy offer a fascinating history of this crusade and the battles it sparked in American life. On the side of reform were such leaders as George Angell, the inspirational head of Massachusetts’s animal-welfare society and the American publisher of the novel Black Beauty; Henry Bergh, founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Caroline White of Philadelphia, who fought against medical experiments that used live animals; and many more, including some of the nation’s earliest veterinarians and conservationists. Caught in the movement’s crosshairs were transformational figures in their own right: animal impresarios such as P. T. Barnum, industrial meat barons such as Philip D. Armour, and the nation’s rising medical establishment, all of whom put forward their own, very different sets of modern norms about how animals should be treated. In recounting this remarkable period of moral transition—which, by the turn of the twentieth century, would give birth to the attitudes we hold toward animals today—Wasik and Murphy challenge us to consider the obligations we still have to all our kindred creatures.