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A Narrative, of the Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson; ; containing an account of his system of practice, and The manner of curing Disease with Vegetable Medicine,..., Samuel Thomson, Boston, 1822

Homœópathy, and its kindred delusions; Two lectures delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, 1842

A Consultation of Doctors on the case of Sr. Toby Bumper!!, George Moutard Woodward, London, February 26, 1807

The Provocation and the Reply; or Allopathy Versus Physio-Medicalism in a Review of Prof. M.B. Wright's Remarks at the Dedication of the Cincinnati New Hospital, January 8th, 1869, Alva Curtis, Cincinnati, 1870

The Practice of the Water-Cure, James Wilson, MD and James Manby Gully, MD, New York, 1846

"The Rain Bath" from Pleasures of the Water Cure, Thomas Onwhyn, London, ca. 1857

Sitz Bath and Wet Sheet" from Pleasures of the Water Cure, Thomas Onwhyn, London, ca. 1857

Remarks on the Abracadabra of the Nineteenth Century; or on Dr. Samuel Hahnemann's Homœopathic medicine,…, William Leo-Wolf, MD, New York, 1835

American Medical Biography: or Memoirs of Eminent Physicians who have flourished in America. ..., James Thacher, Boston, 1828

A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania..., Joseph Carson, MD, Philadelphia, 1869

The Reform-Medical Practice: with a History of Medicine, from the earliest period to the present time,…, Faculty of the Reform Medical College of Georgia, Macon, GA, 1857

Les Homéopathes: 2ème Traitement-Similia Similibus, Courbatura Batonibus (The Homeopaths: 2nd Treatment-Similia Similibus, Courbatura Batonibus), Charles Émile Jacque, 1880s

L'Homéopate et l'alléopate, en présence chez M. Jobard, se traient de polissons, se prennent à la gorge et le malade meurt faute de secours (The Homeopath and the allopath, in presence at M. Jobard’s place, treat each other like rascals, take each other by the throat and the patient dies for lack of help), Henry Monnier, 1830s

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, 1800s

Catarrh, Neuralgia & Headache No More!, Buffalo, NY, 1800s

Cocaine Toothache Drops, 1885

INSPIRATION

Sir William Osler (1849-1919), ca. 1904

The Life of Sir William Osler, Volume 1., Harvey Cushing, Oxford, 1925

Two Centuries of American Medicine 1776-1976, James Bordley, III, MD, and A. McGehee Harvey, MD, Philadelphia, 1976

Pharmacology laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, 1920s

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine founders with a graduating class, ca. 1900

“Medical Lore in the Older English Dramatists,” The Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Robert Fletcher, 1895

An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays, William Osler, New York, 1909

Epoch-Making Contributions to Medicine, Surgery and the Allied Sciences, being reprints of those communications which first conveyed epoch-making observations to the scientific world,…, Charles N.B. Camac, Philadelphia, 1909

A Year with Osler 1896-1897: Notes taken at his Clinics in The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Joseph H. Pratt, Baltimore, MD, 1949

“An Antitoxin for Medical Commercialism,” The Physician and Surgeon, Lewis Pilcher, 1912

Dr. Harvey Cushing and a young patient, 1928

First volume of Annals of Medical History, Francis R. Packard (ed.), 1917

The Saint-Johns Hopkins Hospital, Max Brödel, 1896

EDIFICE

Newly constructed building that housed the Army Medical Library and the Army Medical Museum, Washington, DC, 1887

Library Hall in the new the Army Medical Library and Army Medical Museum building, Washington, DC, 1887

An Introduction to the History of Medicine, with Medical Chronology, Bibliographic Data and Test Questions, Fielding H. Garrison, MD, Philadelphia, 1914

John Shaw Billings: A Memoir, Fielding H. Garrison, MD, New York, 1915

Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army, Washington, DC, 1888

The staff of the Institute of the History of Medicine in the Welch Memorial Library, Johns Hopkins University, ca. 1932

Welch Memorial Library, Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, ca. 1940

POLITICS

Victor Robinson, MD

Pioneers of Birth Control in England and America, Victor Robinson, MD, New York, 1919

Civilization and Disease, Henry E. Sigerist, Ithaca, New York, 1943

Medicine and Human Welfare, Henry E. Sigerist, MD, New Haven, CT, 1941

An Essay on Hasheesh: Historical and Experimental, Victor Robinson, MD, New York, 1925

The History of Miners' Diseases: A Medical and Social Interpretation, George Rosen, MD, New York, 1943

PROFESSION

Richard Harris Shryock, 1950

Networks of Innovation: Vaccine Development at Merck, Sharp & Dohme, and Mulford, 1895-1995, Louis Galambos with Jane Elliot Sewell, New York, 1995

Charles D. O'Malley, ca. 1969

Owsei Temkin, 1966

“Owsei Temkin, M.D.” from the series Leaders in American Medicine, Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 1979

TODAY’S NEWS

Dying for Work: Worker's Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America, David Rosner and Herald Markowitz (eds.), 1989

No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880, Allan M. Brandt, 1985

Noted historian of medicine Susan E. Lederer receives appreciation from President Bill Clinton for her contributions to the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, April 21, 1994

"FDA Regulation of Tobacco Advertising and Youth Smoking: Historical, Social, and Constitutional Perspectives," Journal of the American Medical Association, Lawrence O. Gostin, Peter S. Arno, and Allan M. Brandt, February 5, 1997

Final Report: Executive Summary and Guide to Final Report, Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Washington, DC, ca. 1995

Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, 1991

AIDS: The Burdens of History, Elizabeth Fee and Daniel Fox (eds.), 1988