Browse Items (20 total)

• Letter from Dr. John King

  Dr. John King describing the discovery of resin of podophyllin

• Letter From the Editor

  A letter in the Journal, Alpha, discussing the risks of self abuse and promotion of her pamphlet to the dangers to parents

• Medicinal plants : an illustrated and descriptive guide to plants indigenous to and naturalized in the United States which are used in medicine, their description, origin, history, preparation, chemistry and physiological effects fully described ...

  First published in 1887 with title: American medicinal plants : an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homoeopathic remedies ...
  
  Includes indexes.
  
  Stafleu (2nd) | 6067

• Mrs. Anna E. Shields Case

  A case of loss of smell, cough, and Gi distress, with treatment and charges. Handwritten note by Dr. King of the multiple treatments and apothecary units.

• Mrs. Jennie Rodhamel? case of nervous debility

  Description of medical case, charges, and prescription.

• Mrs. Jennie Rodhamel? case of nervous debility

  This is a case from Dr. John King's casebooks of a female nervous medical case, of Jennie Rodhamel, that includes different herbal medicines, like echinacea, and cimicfuga

• Notes of charges by a New York Doctor, and other notes by Dr. John King

  photo of John King's casebooks, King reused booklets and other small pads of paper for his cases and his scrapbook. He would either write on a scrap piece of paper and glue it in or he would write within the preexisting text. Additionally, a note on page 1 on the 1866-1868 – the casebook looks like it was a reference page for him. In the top left corner, you can see rates/quotes for charges from a doctor in New York. Archivist at Lloyd Library

• The ladies' medical guide : a complete instructor and counsellor, embracing a full and exhaustive account of the structure and functions of the reproductive organs, the diseases of females and children, with their causes, symptoms and treatment, the toilet considered in reference to female health, beauty and longevity, etc., etc., etc., with an appendix containing startling facts in plain words for mothers and the young

  A book detailing for women how to conduct themselves, medical conditions, anatomy, and treatments

• Tokology : a book for every woman

  A manual for women on giving birth and overall women's health

• Women : their diseases and their treatment

  Early textbook written by Dr. John King on diseases of women