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Puck (German), back cover. By F. Opper, translation "Two Young Aesculaps, or the importance of the Beard." Hardworking student who becomes a Dr. has no patients, while carousing fellow who grows a beard has a full waiting room. He's seen taking a lady's pulse with pocket watch. A young black boy acts as door-keeper of the doctor's study. No medical accoutrements in the successful doctor's rooms; industrious student had skull, anatomical drawings, and piles of books in his room. Hansen database #358.

Puck (German), back cover. Translated by Hansen as "The Popular American Life Insurance Autopsy." Puck (speaking to Life Insurance Agent) "Is this the sort of treatment you insure your late customers?" Hansen database #3893.

Booklet by Parke, Davis & Company, 11" x 14," 16 pages. "Recent advertisements in a series which has been appearing in leading magazines since 1928." Each page depicts one advertisement. Topics include appendicitis, cancer, heart disease, and others. Many of the narratives in these pages are about parental mistakes to be avoided by seeing one's physician. The audience for this expensive book is not clear, may have been physicians (series emphasized seeing and trusting your doctor), management, or others with corporate interests. Hansen database #3513

Newsweek (146:7), pages 32-39 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 33: "Reading Your Baby's Mind." Title on page 36: "Inside a Baby's Brain." Hansen database #4173

Chic (1:18), page 42006, front cover, color. Very rare midwife image. "Young Democracy, Born at Cooper Institute, Tuesday, December 28, 1880. Monthly Nurse.--"Faix but yer a wake little crayture, all as wan as yer dead Mother. There's no sign av thrivin' about ye, at all, at all." In a windowless garret or basement, we see a dead donkey in bed to the left with this nurse holding the baby donkey, giving it a worried, cross-eyed look. Among the medications lying around: Develin plaster, Hancock powder, Bennett boodle, Hewitt's glue, Sun cholera mixture, Tilden Barl-y (sic) sugar. The nurse wears a checkered apron, a white bonnet or kerchief, stockings, and house slippers. Page 2 masthead is dated January 11, 1881, a day earlier than the cover date. "Published every Tuesday." No editorial on the cover, but there is a relevant 16-line verse about it, mentioning John Kelly, Irving, Tammany, and Hewitt. "Monthly nurse" was apparently a common term, often used in classified ads for women seeking positions. Seemingly this distinguished it from a children's nurse and graduate nurses were yet very uncommon. While not slovenly like Sairy Gamp, this figure carries no image of skill or professionalism. Hansen database #4397.

Puck (6:143), front cover of complete issue. J. Keppler, Uncle Sam as watch dog protecting public school funds from parochial schools. Hansen database #153.

Life (31:19), pages 61-62. "Highest medical honor goes to Max Thieler whose work and vaccine may free the world from yellow fever." Yellow fever vaccine. Second page has 8 photographs: "These fought Yellow fever." Finlay, Reed, Gorgas, Cruz, Adrian Stokes, A. F. Mahaffy, Wilbur Sawyer, and Maurice Peltier. Ginger Rogers is cover photograph. Issue has large article on port of New York.

Life (16:4), pages 8-9, 11. "Speaking of Pictures."

Life (3:15), pages 43-45. Pages 43-44 "X-Ray Sees Twins Before Their Birth. Because of Roentgen even the womb is a lighted place." Page 45 is "Movie X-Rays Now Reveal the Elbow's Ball and Socket Action." Twins in womb, movie x-rays of socket action, 5th International Congress of Radiology in Chicago.

Life (16:23), page 119, color page. "'17 Babies this week - and he hasn't seen his own grandson'!" a maternity nurse says to another.

Puck (69:1779), page 16, back cover of complete issue. Gum advertisement shows no longer using cartoons here. Hansen database #1011.

Life (4:9), page 34. Science, transfusions, former vaudeville strongman, gave 871 pints, but passed up $22,000 in fees.

Time(161:17), pages 60-66 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 61: "The No. 1 Killer of Women." Title on page 62: "A Woman's Heart." Title on page 66: "What You Can Do." Hansen database #3788.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (30:759), pages 66-67. An article essay with four images of women's medical college (dissection etc.). In this op-ed like piece by A. K. Gardner, M.D., he confesses that he made unkind and unfair judgments about them twenty years earlier, and says he was wrong. He has fairly strong praise for them now (if sexist in its assumptions). Hansen database #3994.

Life (3:22), pages 84-85. "Science & Industry," Dr. Jean Broadhurst at Columbia Teachers College. #2501

Life (6:4), pages 24-25. Science, non-reflective glass, says based on work of Nobel winner Langmuir. Industrial potential, including photography.

Puck (40:1033), front cover of complete issue. By J. Taylor, Puck congratulating, "Major" (McKinley?), on coming inauguration, offering a Christmas gift of a sign "Public Office is a Public Trust." Hansen database #220.

Time (15:15), pages 30, 32, 34 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 30: "Patriarch's Party." Hansen database #3778.

Unidentified medical journal. Number four in a series of Wyeth advertisements, biography and portraits of Pavlov, Roentgen, and Sippy. Might be earlier than 1970s as the artist Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975) was very active in the 1930s and 1940s; he did hundreds of Time cover portraits. These portraits are exceptionally attractive work and more artistic than the historical illustrations done in some other advertisements. Hansen database #4461

Time(175:2), pages 48-53 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 49: "Why Genes Aren't Destiny: The new field of epigenetics is showing how your environment and your choices can influence your genetic code--and that of your kids." Hansen database #4456.

Newsweek (140:3), pages 38-45, 47 in complete issue. Cover story, multiple articles. Title on page 38: "In Search of Sleep." Title on page 41: "Sounds of Sleep." Title on page 42: "Mysteries of Sleep." Title on page 45: "Bored With Sleeping?" Title on page 47: "Taking Control." Medicine article for this issue titled "Prozac vs. Placebos." Begins page 48. Hansen database #3501.

Puck (18:454), page 192, back cover of a complete issue. "Dunstan Kirke Logan 'Twenty years ago--Disgusted Populace--Oh, Chestnut'!!!" Hansen database #978.

Puck (38:983), page 368, back cover. By F. Opper, six scenes: #1 speaker Mrs. Prof. Brayneford is introduced, #2-5 various criticisms which cause individual women to walk out, #6 "In conclusion, I would say that skirts which touch the ground are a menace to health, bringing microbes from the streets to our homes and firesides." Last guest departs, leaving only speakers and a hostess in tears. Coloring in blue, green, yellow, and orangey-red is nice, though format is not dramatic nor is design original. Hansen database #367.

Fortune. Full-page advertisement for the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation with two scenes, "Old Pharmacy" and "Modern Drug Store," and Louis Pasteur quotation along the top: "Without laboratories men of science are soldiers without arms." Text discusses research, developments and progress of pharmaceuticals. A different advertisement with similar layout ran in 1953. Hansen database #4292

Life, page 320-321, centerfold only. By F. T. Richards, Tammany shown hauling the money, while the cloud of death of Cholera approaches. Mocking Tammany corruption at a time of cholera epidemic. Hansen database #4196.

World's Work, page 83. Full page Metropolitan Life Insurance Company advertisement. "20 times more dangerous than lightning!" Hansen database #2891

Time (123:24), pages 58-62, 64-66 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 58: "Unlocking Pain's Secrets." Title on page 62: "Heroin, a Doctor's Dilemma." Title on page 65: "Pain Relief's Founding Father." Hansen database: #3430.

Life (28:19), pages 38-39. "An egg laid in Texas gives bird lovers hope for the survival of a nearly extinct species." Week's Events section, hope for survival of the species.

Newsweek(146:22), page 49 in complete issue. Additional medical title on page 48: "Health: Sex, Drugs and Hope."

Judge (19:494), page 458-459, center, in bound volume. By Hamilton. "Judge to Uncle Sam--'If immigration was (!) properly restructured, you would not be troubled with Anarchy, Socialism, the Mafia, and such kindred evils'." Hansen database #2076.

Puck (9:228), front cover. J. A. Wales on injured railway worker in garret, satirizing a Mr. Field (philanthropist? industrialist?). Additional text on reverse. Hansen database #164.

Life(47:16), pages 96-101, 103-104, 107-108, 113. Conclusion for "Darwin's World of Nature" series. Note it for support of evolution: "discoveries continue to affirm Darwin's great theory." Hansen database #3166

Judge (21:522), page 464, back cover, in bound volume. Hamilton, six vignettes. Hansen database #2087.

Life (72:1), pages 48-52. Cover teaser: "A profound dilemma: The Right to Die."

Time(166:7), pages 50-52 in complete issue. Title on page 50: "When Doctors Say, 'We're Sorry.'" Title on page 52: "Peer Review: Doctors Who Hurt Doctors." Hansen database #4172

New York Times, pages D1-D8. Four clippings of Abigail Zuger's review of "Picturing Medical Progress," in Science Times section, illustration of Walter Reed in black and white. Copy delivered in Binghamton, NY, (#4437) has the image in color. Hansen database #4492

Life (24:21), page 15. "The potent weapon to control the baby-killer." Rexall advertisement.

Harper's Weekly (25:1267), front cover. By Nast, Citizen Hercules making a clean sweep of spoils and dirt. Page 230, last half column is relevant. Hansen database #110.

McClure's (33: ), pages 254-269. Article by Burton Jesse Hendrick, with photographs of laboratory. Hansen database #4184

Puck (4:102), page 8-9, center in complete issue. "Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not commit Adulteration." Nine vignettes include swill milk, chemicals, poisoned candy. Hansen database #232.

Time (93:8), pages 53-58 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 53: "The Plight of the U.S. Patient." Title on page 56: "Three Case Histories." Hansen database #3290.

The New York Sun, page 19, in complete issue. Lengthy review by Ivan Oransky, MD, with two large color illustrations, of an exhibit of some comic books on medical doctors and scientists from the Bert Hansen Collection, in the library of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). Hansen database #4496.

Life (73:13), pages 45-47. Organic foods.

Life (31:19), page 168. Back page Life advertisement quoting prospectus in part and ending "Photographs correct or confirm those mental images and places you may never have visited become familiar and meaningful."

Life (47:15), pages 26-27. Introduction to series, "In a New Series, Life Examines a Disturbing Situation." Physicians, sick, cover story. This is introduction: "Beginning a New Series: You and Your Doctor: Science Versus Sympathy?" Image is doctor in suit, with stethoscope, at bedside, probably in a hospital, with caption "The Bedside Manner: Thing of the Past?" Part I, but not captioned as such, except for cover teaser. Also has photograph of Ehrlich. Hansen database #380

Life (30:26), pages 65-66, 68, 71-72, 75-76, 79. "In old debate on what makes temperament a new school of 'constitutional psychiatry' gives heredity equal place with environment." William Sheldon, about heredity and temperament. Endomorphs, etc. and work of William Sheldon, whose Atlas of Men will appear in 1954. Includes a set of questions so readers can type their temperaments. Hansen database #3554

Puck (67:1739), page 8-9 of complete issue. Early example of dropping the big centerfold cartoon. Hansen database #995.

Life(41:16), pages 148-156, 159. Installment I of a series, next issue has II. Cover teaser. Title on page 149: "Return To Sanity In 12 Weeks: Reserpine, chlorpromazine restore two mental victims to normal life."

Life(73:6), pages 38-39. Life Reader Response, medical care; public opinion poll with 41,000 replies. Initial survey in April issue was linked to story about harassed but dedicated hospital nurse.

Time (167:18), pages 42-52 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 42: "Q: What Scares Doctors? A: Being the Patient." Title on page 46: "The Doctor's View: What Makes a Good Patient?"

Life (22:25), pages 87-88, 90. About Babe Didrikson, tag line on last page is "Babe is a lady now, the world's most amazing athlete has learned to wear nylons and cook for her huge husband." Gender, femininity. Hansen database #2865

Collier's, page 55. Full-page advertisement for Budweiser discussing pasteurization process, featuring a portrait of Pasteur at the center. Hansen database #3657

Puck (26:673), page 390-391, center of issue without covers. By Taylor, men protesting ballot reform. Hansen database #280.

Harper's Weekly (39:2021), page 863. Full cover drawing by W. A. Rogers. He's surrounded by hostile dogs named lies, spite, slander, envy, with the Tammany tiger in background. Hansen database #137.

Harper's Weekly (26:1311), page 79. Small cartoon among ads, by Nast. Hansen database #120.

Puck (73:1898), page 1, front cover of complete issue. Woodrow Wilson as hot dog chef. Hansen database #1026.

Puck (10:248) page 209, cover of complete issue. By F. Opper., a blind lady Democracy sits on courthouse or capitol steps. Might be about veterans' widows' pensions--the subject of centerfold and of editorial comments. Hansen database #168.

Puck (8:205), page 394, back cover. Signed F. O. (Opper?) "Treat the Brutes like this--and they will look like this; and there will soon be a Society for the Suppression of Tenement Houses. Treat the Tenement House Dwellers like Brutes, and they will be happy." In lower scene, people are being scrubbed in a sanitary stable, with fresh water, soap, toilet sand, sunlight and the services of a doctor. Hansen database #314.

Puck (22:564), page 269, front cover. Unsigned? New Year's Freak Show for 1888. Hansen database #203.

Life (27:12), pages 171-172. Natural history.

Puck (9:215), page 107, cover of complete issue. Senators (?) waiting outside U. S. Senate secured by padlock "Conkling & Mahone dead lock." Hansen database #161.

Life (39:18) pages 79-80, 82, 84, 86, 88. Opera's prime prima donna: Callas.

Puck (69:1773), page 8-9, center of complete issue. Additional text on page 2: "Dying so that others may live." Hansen database #870.

Life (10:16), pages 65-67. Science, vitamins.

Harper's Weekly (17:841), page 124. Full page painting by Jules Tavernier, American (1844-1899), wood engraving on paper. Two nicely dressed ladies have brought a basket of food into a garret room for an older woman seated in a rocker (?) with a little child standing and a medium child crouching on the floor as if slightly intimidated. Moonlight(?) shines in through a dormer window with icy borders on the panes. Hansen database #4181.

Harper's Young People Supplement. Signed in the plate Geoffroy (on left) and Beaude or perhaps Meaulle, as engraver (on the right). Separate double page, slightly glossy, folded like centerfold, but without printing on the back. Hansen database #3341

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (59:1521), page 205. Three images: "Extracting The Virus," "The Elevator," "The Stable," together called "New York City --The virus farm of the Board of Health no. 302 Mott St." Short text above the image is titled "The Vaccine Bureau." Hansen database #2399.

Harper's Weekly (13:632), page 92. Photographs by Rockwood. Hansen database #942.

Gleason's Pictorial (Boston), front page. Lower half shows the architecture and the landscape setting with people. Hansen database #63

Chicago Daily News, facsimile of front page. Banner headlines with picture of vial of vaccine above the masthead. Articles in column 3 and 7-8. Vaccine does the job; 80 to 90 percent effective medical jury tells the world. Probably removed from a book as the back of this sheet has "Space Hop A Success" from May 5, 1961. Hansen database #3391.

Life (10:21), pages 51-52, 54. Hansen database #3785

Life (56:4), pages 56A-62, 64. "Government report nails down smoking hazards." Cigarettes, concerning Surgeon General's advisory committee report.

Puck (2:37), page 16, back cover. J. Keppler, nine numbered vignettes, including: #4 "He acquiesced in the idea of putting his Ma in a lunatic asylum." #7 "Till the 'old man' died, when he skipped of with $95,000,000." #9 "Cornelius John [Vanderbilt] trying to pull down the young American Centaur." Faint single-color overlay. Hansen database #293.

Nutiden (:507) page 359. Danish magazine "The Present." Signed "drawing by Meyer, engraving by F. Meaulle." Pasteur observes vaccination/inoculation, inoculating doctor is Grancher, assistant is Viala. Image had appeared (according to Annick Perrot) in Journal Illustré of March 28, 1886. Hansen database #1399

Time(65:19), pages 49-50 in complete issue. Medicine section page 50 includes article titled "Vaccine Grey Market." Medicine section page 52 includes article titled "Left Foot Foremost." Hansen database #3738.

London Graphic (27:685), page 37, in complete issue. Two sketches, text on page 34. Taking lymph from the calf and Vaccinating infants. This is Fig. 1, inset in upper left corner of Fig. 2 (upper sketch). Fig. 1 shows the peculiar pattern of punctures so that there will remain evidence that this was lymph from the calf, rather than humanized lymph. Brief text also notes the lack of any suffering on the animal's part, saying it often sleeps during the procedure. Hansen database #1918.

Scientific American Supplement (39:1015) page 16226-16227. Full "Brouillet painting with people identified," i.e. not the common 3-person scene that had been reproduced repeatedly. #2873a = "Le Vaccin Du Croup" art print copyrighted in 1895, C. N. Greig & Co, by M. Andre Brouillet. It shows doctors and nurses giving a shot to a small child. It measures approx. 13 x 16.5, picture area measures 9.5 x 13. #2873b = Typogravure print from 1895, "Vaccination in the Hospital at Trousseau" by A. Brouillet, Printed by Boussod, Valedon & Cie.; image 9 x 11.75, paper 11 x 15 inches. Printed on heavier smoother paper. Comes from an art magazine folio; has text on back. Hansen database #2873.

Harper's Weekly(16:794), page 204. By Sol Eytinge Jr. Free vaccinations in a police station. Hansen database #1059.

Harper's Weekly (14:686), page 116. From a sketch by Sol Eytinge. Doctor with wealthy woman holding baby and black servant looking on. Hansen database #81.

Time (28:17), pages 60-64 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 60: "Great Pox." Medicine section page 64 includes article titled "Trouble." Hansen database #3279.

Life (2:9), pages 11-17. Mice on cover, cancer, a photo essay before they used that section on the contents page. Hansen database #2496.

Life (5:17), pages 26-27. Art, mental illness, asylums, color page for paintings. Hansen database #2503

Life (38:15), pages 35-39. Poliomyelitis/vaccines and vaccination. Nice opening photograph of stacked boxes.

Life (16:1), pages 33-34, 37-38. Natural history, compare to vivisection. Issue includes Feininger NYC, Cannon towel advertisement inside cover; closeup on General George C. Marshall in same format as Baruch in next issue.

Puck (73:1875), page 16, back cover of complete issue. "Even if you aren't 'poisoned' by a Union Cook, you do not seem to be any too safe. Upstairs--The Dining Room. Downstairs, Way Down--The Kitchen." Food safety and adulteration. Hansen database #912.

Life (9:1), pages 43-44, 46-47. Science, not embryology, but studies of twins.

Puck (German), page 272-273, centerfold. By J. Keppler. A quack at top center, surrounded by Indian herb cure, the magnetic cure, the sulphur bath, the water cure, etcetera. At bottom center, a happy skeleton dressed as death dances between a doctor and a pharmacist. At upper right, a drug store "has something for anything." Title of English version is "Death's-Head Doctors: Many Paths to the Grave." Hansen database #249.

Life (34:24), pages 20-21. "Speaking of Pictures." Two underwater photographs of cormorant catching fish.

Time (159:23), pages 46-54 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 46: "The Science of Anxiety." Title on page 49: "Are You Too Anxious?" Title on page 50: "The Anatomy of Anxiety." Title on page 53: "What You Can Do." Hansen database #3740.

Saturday Evening Post (241:3), pages 62-64. Title on page 62: "New Traffic in 'Cures' for Cancer." Fake cancer cures.

Judge (48:1230), center, in complete issue. T. R., lots of references to germs, germ-ine, microbe-ine, disinfectants, bichloride, etc. Hansen database #435.

Puck (34:871), page 200-201, centerfold. By Dalrymple, includes Tweedism, Crokerism, Tannerism, McLaughlinism, etc. Spoils system as malarial morass appeared in center of August 27, 1884, and Dismal Swamp was on June 22, 1892 cover. Hansen database #285.

Puck (17:422), supplement. By J. Keppler, portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, surrounded by scenes. Trimmed on top, with text. Hansen database #408.

Life (60:25), pages 43-44, 46, 49, 51. Close-Up, "Co-Authors of a Scientific Best Seller." Profile of authors Masters and Johnson.

Life (58:22), page 3. "Editors' Note," long note on contents page about measles and abortion story with photograph of writers and photographer; one couple let their name be used to help others. Hansen database #381

Judge (21:531), page 635, front cover. Reverse has series of verbal jokes about health and medicine. Hansen database #51.

Life (26:18), pages 67-68. Science. Section not noted. Tuberculosis vaccines and vaccination, lead photo is Guerin with test tubes.

Life (15:22), pages 49-50, 52. "Mass tests and X-rays discover unsuspected cases." Tuberculin test, tuberculosis, compare to story on February 5, 1944.

Life (3:22), pages 30-37. The Photographic Essay, tuberculosis, Christmas Seals, eight pages of photographs. #2501