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From Parke, Davis and Company "A History of Medicine in Pictures" series of prints. Texts "may be clipped and attached to backs of framed pictures." Framing instructions include photographs of doctor's office, waiting room, and examining room showing images on the wall. Two copies of framing instructions plus several editions of texts. Hansen database #1331

Set of five prints by Parke, Davis & Company includes Lind, Jenner, Harvey, Vesalius, and Rhazes. Each labeled "One of a series: A History of Medicine in Pictures, presented by Parke, Davis & Company." Hansen database #4475

Set of five prints by Parke, Davis & Company includes Medieval Hospitals, Paré, Paracelsus, Pinel, and Galen. Each labeled "One of a series: A History of Medicine In Pictures presented by Parke, Davis & Company." Hansen database #4476

Words and music by Will Waldron. St. Louis, Mo.: A. H. Lewis Medicine Co., c. 1928. Nature's Remedy, a "vegetable laxative and corrective," is advertised on the back cover.

Puck (32:826), page 311, front cover. By J. Taylor, John Sherman's Gold & Silver Certificate of Marriage. Shows a male coin marked "par" departing for Europe, while a crying female marked "60-cent dollar" cries in a chair. She uses Bland's smelling salts, Jones Elixir of Life, Stewart's tonic, purely western, and B. Russel's conference fizz. Hansen database #212.

On Call, cover of complete issue. "A Community-Wide Newspaper, Issued by South Nassau Communities Hospital." 24 pages on newsprint. An informal local publication, not kept by libraries, but useful for recording contemporary images of doctors and nurses at work. Cover photograph shows doctor and nurses putting a case on a boy's arm for a shoulder fracture. More photographs on the center fold, mostly of nurses. All photographs are black and white. Hansen database #3910

Puck (68:1751), page 11 of complete issue. Full page Colgate shaving powder advertisement, invoking the "Medical Times" on improvements in barber shops. Hansen database #856.

Life (12:1), pages 32-34. Handbook for Americans, nurses' aides; nurses and nursing, cover story; 4th nursing cover; "Wanted 50,000 Nurses." Contents page gives short biography of Stefan Lorant.

Time (126:6), pages 40-47 in complete issue. Cover story. Title on page 40: "AIDS: A Growing Threat." Title on page 46: "In the Middle of a War." Hansen database #1247.