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- Description:
- Pocket-sized 1902 calendar published by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, filled with advertisements about the group's medicines. The cover bears a black and white illustration of a woman in a fancy dress sitting at a writing desk. The January/February page has been filled out with what appears to be an inventory of fabrics, patterns, and sewing notions. A newspaper clipping concerning a sidewalk paving ordinance, dated August 11, 1903, has been pinned to the March/April page.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Almanac published by L.R. Herrick, M.D. for Dr. Herrick and Brother, Practical Chemists, of Albany, New York. In addition to information concerning holidays, weather, and astrology, the almanac contains advertisements for Dr. Herrick and Brother products including a testimonial from a slave owner who claims the company's Sugar Coated Pills cured one of his slaves of a three-year long aliment which doctors were unable to treat.
- Date Issued:
- 1863-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Small almanac bound in a blue paper cover, published by the Piso Company of Warren, Pennsylvania, containing articles advertising Piso's medicinal products.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Seventeen page promotional booklet for Scott's Emulsion, containing seven color lithographs of maps, scenes, and products of South America and the Caribbean spread throughout unrelated pages of text concerning the history of medicine and the various ailments that Scott's Emulsion can remedy. The cover depicts a young boy holding book and pointing to South America on a globe, while saying, "There's where you came from," top a parrot perched on his shoulder. "Copyright 1906 by American Lithographic Co. N.Y." is printed on the lower left corner of the cover. The verso includes a space below the words, "Scott's Emulsion Sold By," for a merchant's stamp, however this area is blank.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sewn booklet listing the Detroit College of Medicine's faculty, courses, requirements, textbooks, and fees, as well as recent matriculates, graduates, and hospital appointments for both the College of Medicine and the Department of Dental Surgery. Several photos of facilities are included.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Sewn booklet listing the faculty of the Detroit College of Medicine as well as its clinics, laboratories, requirements along with recent matriculates and graduates. Engravings of Harper Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital are included on the back cover.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Small 95 page booklet written by Frederick Humphreys, M.D. providing medical advice, always centering around his own line of numbered remedies, for a variety of ailments. A veterinary section is also included. The back section of the booklet is dedicated to advertisements for Humphreys' Homeopathic Medicine Company. A photograph of a nurse graces the front cover. The back cover advertises the availability of Humphreys' products through Charles W. Wing, Drugs and Chemicals at 838 Fort Street, Detroit, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
