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- Description:
- A book of receipts bound in cardboard. The receipts are for medicines received from Thomas P. Dickinson, for medicines to be resold on commission. The medicines listed on each receipt are Dickinson's Universal C. & C. Annihilator, Dickinson's Universal Life Pills, Dickinson's Universal Strengthening Plaster, and Dickinson's Universal Healing Salve. Only the first three receipts have been filled out. They are all dated 1885. The first is signed by A. Ruttedge, the second by G.R. Roburn, and the third by J. Thatcher. The prices are all expressed in pounds sterling.
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- 24 page, 1876 price list for Parke, Davis and Company. Sewn in a green cover bearing a lithograph of the Parke, Davis and Company laboratory on McDougall Avenue, Guion Street, and Atwater Street. Fluid extracts, sugar-coated pills, solid extracts, concentrations, powdered alcoholic extracts, elixirs, syrups, medicinal wines, granular effervescent preparations, granular and powdered effervescent mineral water salts, and spread plasters are listed within. A cut-away illustration of an abdomen demonstrating Dr. Wilson's Eureka Abdominal Supporter is featured on the last page.
- Date Issued:
- 1876-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- April 1919 issue of the newsletter of the Detroit Chapter of the American Red Cross. This issues includes stories on an exhibit of children's crafts in the basement of the Detroit Museum of Art, a penpal program between Detroit children and orphans in France and Belgium, a clothing drive undertaken by the chapter, and the canteen program,
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Volume 8, Number 5 of Beauty and Health, published August 1904, by Physical Culture Publishing Company, a magazine concerned with women's physical fitness. Contains the articles, "The Value of Deep Abdominal Breathing," "Joy and Health of an Early Morning Walk," "Physical Culture Menus," "At the Shrine of Love," "The Romance of Kit Dunlop," "Health and Strength for Girls," and "Will Natural Living Assure Painless Childbeading?," as well as the "Question Department," "Our Dress Department," and an editorial entitled, "The Ambitious Girl and the Home." The cover depicts "A Physical Culture Baby," who at seven months "can stand alone and nearly walk." Advertisements for instructional books, beauty products, and art and photography portfolios are featured within. The articles are peppered with photos and illustrations of exercises, and gym wear.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Double-sided handbill printed on green cardstock advertising the arrival of Dr. Arthur Elmer, "a modern day seer... magnetic healer and clairvoyant physician," to Coldwater, Michigan on October 15, 1894. The card mentions that Elmer will use his powers to heal the sick, locate lost, stolen or buried property, and provide business or career advice through "psychometry or soul reading."
- Date Issued:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- 17 page booklet bound in a grey paper cover with purple print containing the "Annual Report of the Social Service Director, 1915," "Treasurer's Report of Social Service Department, 1915," and "Report on the Ways and Means Committee of the Babies Convalescent Home, detailing the status of patients, expenditures, outings, and donations to the Children's Free Hospital.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Two-sided trade card printed on beige cardstock advertising the treatment of "chronic, nervous, complicated diseases of men and woman," such as "blood disorders, skin diseases, rheumatism, ulcers, and problems of liver, stomach, heart, bowels, bladder, lungs, and kidneys at the Griswold Medical Office at 1260 Griswold Street. A schedule for the 1923 Detroit Tigers season is printed on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Catalog published by the Grand Rapids X-Ray Manufacturing Company, bound at the top in a purple paper cover with gold print. Contained within is a short background on X-ray machines, prices, photos and illustrations of the machines and their parts, photos of X-ray images, and testimonials.
- Date Issued:
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- 1894 "Ladies Perfumed Calendar, compliments of E.W. Hoyt & Co., Lowell, Mass. Proprietors of Hoyt's German Cologne, Rubifoam for the Teeth." The recto bears a color image of a small girl in a pink dress holding a basket of flowers as two doves roost on her. Calendars for January through December 1894 are printed on the verso as well as an advertisement for Hoyt's German Cologne which cautions against "the numerous trashy Colognes that usurp its name and style of bottle." Prices are listed at 25 cents for a trial size, 50 cents for medium size, and one dollar for a large bottle. "For sale by J.C. Harper, - - Milan, Mich., Dealer In Drugs, Patent Medicines, Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Brushes, Perfumery, etc." is printed at the bottom of one copy. "For sale by Lynch & Schwimm, Wellington, Kan., Dealers in Drugs, Patent Medicines, Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Brushes, Perfumery, etc." is printed at the bottom of the other.
- Date Issued:
- 1894-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- 19th edition of a Spanish language catalog of Parke, Davis & Co.-New York products.
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
