![DIETING] WEIGHT WATCHERS POSTER; WW 10](/pictures/thumb/2510.jpg?v=1618587127)
Israel: Weight Watchers, c. 1978. Poster. I48 x 33 cm. In the early 1960's, Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch began inviting friends into her Queens home once a week, to discuss how best to lose weight. As word spread and attendee numbers grew, Nidetch finally launched Weight Watchers Inc. in..... More
![MANUSCRIPT] [PHARMACY] Excelsior Diary](/pictures/thumb/1248.jpg?v=1579647246)
San Francisco, CA. Cardboard covers. Repurposed 1895 Diary. 17.5 x 9 cm. Written in pen Harry Lapidaire, Pharmacist, My Father on Tues. Jan., 1895. Remedies and recipes handwritten in pencil throughout. Entries include: Poison Oak, Antiseptic Solution, Sore Nipples, Syphilis, Bug Poison, Tooth Ache Drops, etc. One-quarter used. The Excelsior..... More
![NUTRITION] The Price We Pay for Dietetic Errors. Ada J. Alberty](/images/noimage.png)
Hollywood, California: Ada J. Alberty, 1939. Second Edition. Hardcover. 195 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. A self-published dietetic book based on the author's personal contact with clients. Records show Alberty had been sued by the government in the 1940's for misbranding of a drug and transporting over state lines. Interior..... More
London: John Murray, 1811. Second Edition. Hardcover. 440 pages. 16.5 x 10 cm. A comprehensive household manual, filled with what seems to be very helpful receipts and some of a dubious nature. Chapters filled with constructive advise on rearing livestock, making butter, brewing and the management of malt liquors, the..... More
![ITALIAN] [PHARMACEUTICAL] Note Di Terapia Pratica. G. MD Borromeo](/pictures/thumb/2055.jpg?v=1578157867)
Milan: 1934. Staplebound. 31 pages. 20 x 14.5 Elegant chromolithographic covers. Italian language monthly periodical/promotional booklet for three products: Elastina, Enterasi, and Pantoidina, including 12 pages of testimonials by Italian doctors. Dubious claims of relieving Gastritis, Heart Disease, and Hepatitis accompanied by case studies. Light toning. More
![CANADA] [MENU] Canadian Psychiatric Association Convention; Dégustation de vins et de fromages...](/pictures/thumb/2565.jpg?v=1623426790)
King Edward Sheraton Hotel: 1969. Cards. 28 x 22 cm. Large illustrated folding menu with a page of proverbs and a page of the wines and cheese served at this event. Some of the proverbs (10) link wine and drink to the medical profession such as: "An alcoholic has been..... More
San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co., Printers, 1875. Original wraps. The first 17 pages review various metal characteristics, accompanied by collection of instructions on manipulating metals. Recipes for fire works, baking, preserving, sacrament wine, and home remedies are listed along with various land measurements, and silver & gold worth..... More
![MEDICAL] [MANUSCRIPT] [ACCOUNT BOOK] Ledger - Dr. Peter Fahrney; of Oak Park, Illinois, for...](/pictures/thumb/2085.jpg?v=1581356889)
Hardcover. 37 x 17 cm. 119 linen-backed leaves of manuscript notations and paste down documents. Peter Fahrney [1840-1905], president and founder of Fahrney & Sons Co., was born in Maryland to a family of herbal practitioners. His grandfather, known as Ole Dr. Peter Fahrney, was well known in the Boonsboro..... More
![MEDICINE] [WOMEN] [ABNORMALITIES] On the Nature of Various Substances Formed in and Discharged...](/pictures/thumb/2040.jpg?v=1576089244)
London: John Churchill, 1858. Sewn binding. 7 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Bound together with: Account of the History and Dissection of a Case of malformation of the Urinary Bladder, with Remarks - A. Melville M'Whinnie, 8 pages, London: Wilson & Ogilvy. An uncommon pamphlet on gynecology, with illustrations examining..... More
![PHOTOGRAPHY] [NURSE] Nurse in Training Album; Annotated. J. Hill](/pictures/thumb/2436.jpg?v=1613164807)
Providence, RI: 1927-1930. Hardcover. Unpaginated [22 pp]. 18 x 25.5 cm. 8 photos laid in & one letter. A charming photo album featuring female nursing students, primarily trained at the Homeopathic Hospital in Providence, RI. Photos include outings to Lincoln woods, group photos, photos with patients, and five doctors (with..... More
Edinburgh: William Gordon, 1758. Hardcover. 436 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. Medical theory and practice developed rapidly during the mid 1700's and advances in the printing press helped spread scholarship by disseminating both new and long-standing theories of medical concepts. Mackenzie applies this principle by including the history of medicine..... More
![GREEK] [LATIN] [MEDICINE] Volumen de alimentorum facultatbus juxta ordinem literarum digestum....](/pictures/thumb/2293.jpg?v=1601224929)
Paris: Lutetiae Parisiorum, 1658. Hardcover. 174 pages. (error in pagination: 154 for 145). 17.5 x 11 cm. Each page with parallel text in Greek and Latin. Seth's reference on the Properties of Foods may be the most significant record of how dietetics were put into practice by Byzantine and Arabic..... More
London: Richard Phillips, 1810. Hardcover. 901 pages. 22 x 13.5 cm. 261 engravings. Although Thornton studied medicine, his passion was botany. Thornton was best known for the unique collection of illustrations of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus - titled the Temple of flora. Lacks 1/2 title page and..... More