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- Description:
- Advertisement mailed by George P. Way of 30 Adelaide Street, Detroit, Michigan to James T. Thing of 313 North Greenleaf Avenue, Whittier, California. Included are an envelope, return envelope, order form, advertisement for the Blowena, and a type-written letter. Way writes, on behalf of his Artificial Ear Drum Company, attempting to persuade Thing to purchase both an artificial ear drum, as well as a device called the Blowena for seven dollars. The included advertisement explains that the Blowena is a rubber tube intended to relieve "catarrh, hay fever, cold in the head and influenza, or any irritation of the nose and throat, but particularly for CATARRHAL DEAFNESS" by allowing a user to blow air from their mouth, through the device where a medicated sponge is housed, into their ear. "Let us hear the conclusion of tile whoe mutter. Hear good until ref his command for this is the whole thing [sic]" is handwritten in pencil on the verso of the envelope.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Catalog of Parke, Davis & Co. products, published January 1, 1904.
- Date Issued:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Color lithograph mounted on board. Title at bottom reads "Parke, Davis & Co., / Home Office and Laboratories, Detroit, Mich., U.S.A." The lithograph shows a painting of the Parke-Davis campus (now River Place), at the foot of Joseph Campau Street along the Detroit River with a view to the southeast. Several boats are docked in the foreground of the image, and pedestrians and horse drawn carriages are shown along the perimeter of the Parke-Davis facilities. A circular logo on the bottom left indicates that the lithograph was printed by The Winters Art Litho. Co. of Chicago.
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- October 1903 issue of the Bulletin of Pharmacy published by William M. Warren of Detroit. The issue contains stories relevant to both the medical and business sides of the pharmaceutical profession, letters to the editor, job listings, and numerous advertisements.
- Date Issued:
- 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- 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
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- 104 page, 1886 catalog for Parke, Davis and Company. Sewn in a red cover bearing a lithograph of the Parke, Davis and Company laboratory and general offices between Guion Street, Atwater Street, Joseph Campau Street, and McDougall Avenue, as well as their New York office, and warehouse. Their laboratory of the manufacture of gelatin products is depicted on the back cover. Fluid extracts, normal liquids, German tinctures, concentrations, sugar-coated and gelatin coated pills, sugar coated granules, solid extracts, powdered extracts, concentrations, elixirs, syrups, medicinal wines, malt extracts, granular effervescent preparations, mineral water salts, compressed tablets, soluble elastic tablets, hard filled gelatin capsules, hard filled capsules, gelatin coated iodoform bougies, medicated lozenges, roll plasters, oleates, ointments, cerates, collodions, glyceroles, confections, inhalants, and pressed herbs are listed within.
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Single-sided schedule showing days and times for exercises at the University of Michigan's College of Medicine and Surgery. The schedule is divided into sections for freshmen, juniors, and seniors, and courses are held Monday through Saturday from 9:30 to 5.
- Date Issued:
- 1888-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Vaccination certificate issued to Felix McWilliams by the Health Committee of the Common Council of the City of Detroit. The certificate is signed by R.L. Smith of the Committee on Health. The certificate's header depicts a cow standing atop a serpent, beneath the Latin phrase, "terroribus spoliatus." The certificate is mounted on a linen backing, with the year 1850 handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1850-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Volume 1, Number 1 of The Detroit Clinic, "A Weekly Exponet of Clinical Medicine and Surgery," published January 4, 1882, by George S. Davis. Contains the articles "Operations of the Thyroid Gland," by Theodore H. McGraw, "On the Abuse of Local Treatment in Nasal Disorders," by E.L. Shurly, "Psoriasis Affecting the Scalp, Chest, Legs, and Arms, and also all the Nails on the Fingers and Toes," by A.E. Carrier, "Bacteria," by O.W. Owen, "Optico-Cillary Neurotomy," by Eugene Smith, "Differential Diagnosis, Etc. of Typho-Malarial Fever," by J.H. Carstens, and "Lacerations of the Perineum," by N.W. Webber. The journal also contains medical advertisments, local medical news, book annoucements, and abstracts.
- Date Issued:
- 1882-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
- Description:
- Envelope and invitation to the Eleventh Annual Commencement of the Detroit Medical College. The envelope is addressed to Charles L. Argus, Esquire, and has an embossed border around its flap. The invite is quarter folded. The cover of the invite is printed with a design composed of the entwined letters D,M, and C. along with the passage: Detroit, March 2, 1879 The Faculty of the Detroit Medical College respectfully invite yourself and family to attend their Eleventh Annual Commencement Exercises, to be held at the Opera House (Campus Martius), on the Evening of Tuesday, March 4th, at 8 o'clock precisely. (Over) The Order of Exercises is printed within, including orchestral music, a prayer, the ceremony, an address, and a poem. Both the invitation and envelope bear the imprint of E.B. Smith and Company, Printers.
- Date Issued:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Medical/Dental/Pharmaceutical
