Scanned in the clinical history provided for Atkins and his wife who are posing in the frontispiece. It clearly states that they were photographed by their pastor, Rev. J. R. Smith, and not by Valentine Blanchard as I erroneously stated although in the 1800's, photographs were sometimes attributed to the client who paid the bill and not to the photographer who did the work. I sent a query to the antiquarian bookseller who associates Blanchard with this book. The text can be found with the enlargement of the frontispiece.
Added linked thumbnails of the three plates illustrating Old Age by Humphry. The bone sections were photographed by Colin Lunn and the frontispiece portrait is by Valentine Blanchard who was quite noted in his time, especially for his street scenes in which he intentionally allowed some blurring to occur so as to convey the sense of life in motion. Not surprisingly, Blanchard later joined the sucessionist movement and received the high honor of membership into the "Linked Ring" which included the distinguished names of Sutcliffe, Stieglitz, and Frederick Evans.
Began the description to Humphry.
Still reading "Old Age", by Sir George M. Humphry. Scanned the frontispiece and placed it into the description.
Began reading Old Age, by Sir George M. Humphry. It has 3 nice woodburytypes which I will scan and add to the description soon.
Not much to add to the D. Berry Hart Atlas. Unfortunately I do not own a copy. One sold at auction a few days ago, but regretfully I missed it.
Thomson papers are done for now. Moving on to this Atlas by D. Berry Hart.
Continued work on the description to the Thomson papers.
Added to the description of the Thomson papers.
Began writing a description to the Thomson papers. The four sequential images show the astounding physical changes incurred by an 18 year old myxoedemic over the course of a year of treatments with thyroid extract prepared from slaughtered sheep. A remarkable document in the history of endocrinology.
Began researching the Thomson papers.
Thumbnail images of the Thomson book are now linked to enlargements.
Here are thumbnails to four of the plates in Treatment of Cretinism.
Having difficulty finding another copy of this collection of essays.
Completed the description for the Boston City Hospital report. Will now take up a remarkable collection of essays bound together in a slim demy octavo by John Thomson, an Edinburgh physician.
Finishing the description for the Boston City Hospital report.
More work on the description for the Boston City Hospital report.
Began the description for the Boston City Hospital report.
Still reading and researching the Boston City Hospital report.
Here are the two albumen photographs of Martha whose coxalgia was treated by the surgeon David W. Cheever and whose skillful art was documented by these haunting images two years later in 1869. 135 years have passed since the photo session. In truth 135 years is not such a long time for art, but when the inquisitive eye dwells over Martha's disfigurement an imponderable expanse of time is seen and felt. Her gammy limb still shrinks from a rough witness.
Began the research for First Medical and Surgical Report of the Boston City Hospital, a large volume with two mounted albumen plates of a child who suffered the excision of the head of her femur.
The description for the Gottheil appears to be finished.
Added three more plates to the Gottheil. Found a wonderful essay, kind of a historical overview of syphilis written by the great Samuel Gross and published in Transactions of the American Medical Association, Volume 25 for the year 1874. The following quote from that work must be the first medical citation of a zoonotic transmission of disease:
If, as Darwin declares, we are descended from these animals,[chimpanzees] is it not reasonable to suppose that they are subject to the same diseases as we are? Nay, further, may we not have inherited syphilis directly from them, as a legacy from our illustrious progenitors? I propound this question for the solution of the sophists.
More work on the description to the Gottheil atlas. Tomorrow I will add three more plates and finish the description. Then I will scratch for another of my medical book obsessions:
Occurring in daytime, neither modesty nor the presence of others can restrain the impetus scabendi (the "impulse to scratch"); and the affliction has driven some of these sufferers to suicide. — Gottheil.
More work on the description to the Gottheil atlas.
October 30.
Got a nice email from Susan Pointe, Art Advisor for Friends of the University of Alberta Hospitals, who is chairing the Planning Committee for the 14th annual Society for the Arts in Healthcare Conference, June 22-25, 2005. The conference will be held at Sutton Place Hotel, located in the heart of the Arts District of Edmunton Canada. Susan asked me to put up a notice for prospective participants and the SAH Call for Papers, which has a deadline of November 22, 2004. Visit the SAH website at www.thesah.org for more information about the conference and you can reach Susan by email: spointe@cha.ab.ca.
Added links to several more plates of Gottheil atlas.
Added three links to plates of Gottheil atlas and began work on the description.
October 27.
Received an email from a good friend who brought to my attention four Duchenne salt prints that are being auctioned off at Christies London on November 16 (sale # 9964). The two images below of a probable unilateral syringomyelia are linked to the online catalog descriptions for the lots. A third lot comprises two images of hypertrophy of the breasts.
Added the Gottheil atlas to the bibliography.
October 25.
Note to self: "Chromidrosis or colored sweating is an extremely rare malady. The reported cases have occurred mostly in hysterical women, and some of them have been found to be the result of imposture. The very existence of the affection has been doubted, but a sufficient number of cases have been seen by competent observers prove that it occurs. Blue, yellow, brown, and red sweat have been seen, but the source and nature of the coloring-matters are not definitely known." — Gottheil, Illustrated Skin Diseases.
Added another paragraph to the Warren Catalog description. Will probably move on to another book.
Added a link to another specimen in the Warren Catalog description. The case is remarkably similar to the Phineas Gage case but what is of particular interest are Bigelow's comments on the aphasia he found in his patient whose head was pierced by a gas pipe not that dimensionally different than Gage's custom forged tamping iron.
Here is the direct link: Specimens #952 and 3107 »». The misfortunate man also had a 17 foot long taenea (tape worm)!
There is so much more rummaging material in the catalog of the Warren Museum. I am not quite prepared to leave this wonderful collection of medical artifacts. It might be nice to transcribe descriptions of all the other head injury specimens especially those that have case histories. Maybe the descriptions of the phrenological materials should be linked up as well and maybe more clues to Bigelow's contribution on the subject. Bigelow seemed at odds both with his mentor John Collins Warren and Harlow over the validity of phrenology, but it can now be said that they each had a valid handle on some kind of proboscis of mind. There are also over 60 photographs in the museum collection that might have been reproduced in journals or books.
Finished work on the description for the Warren Museum Catalog.
More work on the Warren Museum Catalog.
The research for the description of the Warren Museum Catalog and the Museum's crowned jewel, the skull of Phineas Gage, is turning up some very strange anecdotes. The museum began with a collection of skulls that Warren purchased from the Boston Phrenological Society and then bequeathed to Harvard. Included was the skull of Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832) who is credited with introducing the science of phrenology to Americans. Warren had studied with Spurzheim in Europe and probably arranged for his lecture tour to Boston in 1832. Spurzheim died a few months later, refusing medical treatment, and Warren conducted the autopsy. Did Warren prepare the skull of his mentor? And a follow up question, who prepared Warren's skull for the museum? Probably it was his student John Barnard Swett Jackson. Jackson performed the autopsy after Warren's death in 1856. Final questions, who performed the autopsy on Jackson and what was his relationship to the Museum? Is Jackson's skull in the Museum?
Added a little more to the description and also transcribed the descriptions of three more specimens from the catalog.
Began the work of describing the catalog of the Warren Museum with its composite photograph of Phineas Gage. I also typed up the 3 1/2 page small font description of the Gage case which is specimen #949 in the Warren cabinet. It would have been easier to scan it and run a character recognition program but because of the fragility of the book I did not want to risk cracking the binding.
Too funny! I am reading Antonio Damasio's insightful comparative analysis of the brain damage sustained by Phineas Gage and I am learning that among other personality disorders, such as blaspheming like a drunken sailor, Gage also took up collecting! As a collector of medical books maybe I should get a CAT scan to see if there is any damage to my frontal lobes. Damasio's book , Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, (Avon Books ; 1994) is a treatise advancing his somewhat radical theory of an emotional component to logic.
Began work on the Jackson description.
Put up the listing for A Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum, by J. B. S. Jackson, full name John Barnard Swett Jackson. The book is almost 800 pages printed on a cheap acidic pulp paper that crumbles when handled.
Pretty much finished with the description for the book by William Byrd Powell. For more information on phrenology I highly recommend Dr. John van Wyhe's site, The History of Phrenology on the Web. He provides links to numerous text files of historical texts and his site is both informative and entertaining!
I will probably put up a catalog of the Warren Museum next.
Still reading the Powell book, more work on the description.
Still reading the Powell book, but began work on the description.
September 23.
Just came across this memento vitae from Jim Knipfel »» on Gretchen Worden. I am one of the many cerebral suitors she blessed with a private tour of the Mütter Museum, cutting through my gravitas until we ended up in the library chuckling over the outlandish paper fig leaves protecting the modesty of amputees in a book of Civil War injuries. Gretchen was so generous with her life and passion....I too will miss the tonic of her humor.
Added a photograph and description to the Calkins book on opium addiction. Continuing research on the Byrd Powell book.
Put up the portrait of a very bilious sanguine Keckeler.
I have been searching for quite some time, for a book of phrenology illustrated with photographs. I finally found this one which is illustrated with just one mounted portrait photograph of a "bilious sanguine" type. A description and the image will both be posted in the next day or two.
September 19.
My contact with Scalo writes that I am in error regarding the size of the plates and he believes that Scalo made no reduction to the original photos. I asked him to double check.
Now I am thinking I should have selected the plates on pages 164 and 165 for reproduction. At first these two photos did not hold my attention because to the glancing eye they appear to be two views of an infant that perished in a fire. I realize now they are probably the very first photographic evidence of a "stone baby", specifically a third trimester calcified fetus which formed during an asymptotic pregnancy. Furthermore, I propose that the stone faced young woman portrayed on page 151 was the mother who carried the fetus. Guessing what lies within that mound on her abdomen is like guessing what objects swell under a blanket of snow, but to my eye it shows a harder definition than what a tumor would push out.
September 18.
More comments on the Dr. Ikkaku Ochi collection. I wrote to Scalo , the publisher of this fine album of vintage clinical photographs which was put together by Akimitsu Naruyama and received permission to reproduce two of the plates. It was a difficult choice, but I selected two images of a case of hydrocephalus (pages 76 and 77). The unfortunate child is posed on her mother's lap and we see both a side and front view. Hydrocephalus images are extremely rare and it is even more exceptional to find a set portraying the same subject.
September 17.
A copy of the book Dr. Ikkaku Ochi Collection came to me, finally. I waited for two years for the book. It is a compact octavo with sparse text and over 170 plates of medical conditions photographed by Tsutomu Ôta for physicians associated with the prefecture hospital and medical school in Okayama in the 1890's. Although the plates are almost all reduced by 25% or more from their original cdv formats, they display beautifully, one to a page. It is an inspired presentation, but I wish for a copy printed on Arches paper and bound in vintage leather for a spirit of more solid reflection. I am confident that the artist who owns the collection and the genius behind this book, Akimitsu Naruyama, wanted to give us the same inspiration of opening a mysterious and ancient treasure box that he experienced when he first came on this collection. He succeeds wonderfully.
Went on a bender and added Thornton's notes to each of the plate descriptions. This completes the work on this portion of the bibliography. Now, after I repair an aneurism to a water pipe in my basement, I will continue with the bibliographical work.
Completed the description for the Thornton book, but will probably add to the descriptions of the individual plates.
September 9.
Found a contemporary review of the Thornton book which I will probably add to the description. Or maybe just a piece of it.
Here is a link to a double daguerrotype of a myelomeningocele»» (Spina Bifida) which came up for auction a couple of years ago. Who can argue that this is not religio medica and a most eloquent example?
Began work on the description.
Images to the Thornton book are now in place.
It may appear that I neglected the Cabinet during the month of August, but in fact I was on a computer expedition, birding for more books to add to the bibliography. There was a sighting of the Kerlin Mind Unveiled, but unfortunately it was plucked of the photographic plates by Gutekunst.
I did manage to bag this delightful little work on tracheotomy by William Pugin Thornton and am pleased to begin September's journal with the book. William Thornton was a Londoner and no relation to our famous Doctor William Thornton who gave up medicine for architecture, designing the Capitol and other buildings in Washington DC. However, there is a curious association by trachea between the two Thorntons. As a friend and family physician to George Washington, the American Doctor Thornton was summoned the night Washington died. There is available on the internet a copy of Thornton's remarkable paper on Washington's death titled On Sleep and tells of his hope to revive the great man with a warm bath and tracheotomy:
"When we arrived, to my unspeakable grief, we found him laid out a stiffened corpse. My feelings at that moment I cannot express! I was overwhelmed with the loss of the best friend I had on Earth. The weather was very cold, and he remained in a frozen state, for several days. I proposed to attempt his restoration, in the following manner. First to thaw him in cold water, then to lay him in blankets, and by degrees and by friction to give him warmth, and to put into activity the minute blood vessels, at the same time to open a passage to the lungs by the trachæa, and to inflate them with air, to produce an artificial respiration, and to transfuse blood into him from a lamb. If these means had been resorted to and had failed all that could be done would have been done, but I was not seconded in this proposal; for it was deemed unavailing."
There was speculation that Washington died of quinsy, a morbid swelling of the tonsils that can lead to death by asphyxiation. If true, then a tracheotomy would have certainly prolonged his life, but the intravenous of lamb's blood probably would have been fatal.
Description and images from the book by London Thornton will follow in the next few days.
August 7.
This book written by the director of a German sanitarium is illustrated by an albumen photograph of the author. The photographer is Josef Albert of Munich, important for his invention of the lichtdruck process.
August 4.
Gretchen Worden is succumbed..........1947-forever.
Added this atlas of photographs by Duchenne.
The alienist Forbes Winslow included an albumen frontispiece in the first issue of The medical critic and psychological journal which he edited. He may have also been the publisher or one of the publishers.
Two cases of cholera treated by a Dr. Fish. The patients were brothers, aged 50 and 52, partners in a livery business.
Here is a remarkable albumen of an aortic aneurism treated by Doctor F. Engels of San Franciso. Because of fading, it is difficult to tell if the image is a simple drawing or the result of a more complicated process. Regardless, it is probably the first published photograph of this affliction.
15 volumes of Hospital reports by the great German cardio-physiologist, Hugo von Ziemssen.
Added a book by August Rauber.
Skin disease book by Edmund Lesser. Would like to have 150 entries in the bibliography by the end of the month.
From the same bookseller's catalogue which has the Ruschenberger, comes the information on this rare thesis on the subject of loco weed, written by Evaristo Ordaz.
Here is the description for the Ruschenberger report on the medicinal properties of cundurango.
Here is an interesting book by naval surgeon Ruschenberger which presents the first attempts at chemotherapy for treating cancer. Description will follow soon.
Added a little more to the Charles Lailler description.
Added a book on the subject of tinea by the French dermatologist Charles Lailler.
Found a portfolio of photographs by the nineteenth century obstetrician, William Smoult Playfair. It will warrant future investigation.
Finished the description for S. Weir Mitchell. Expect to add several books to the bibliography before the month is out.
Continued work on the S. Weir Mitchell entry.
Continued work on the S. Weir Mitchell entry.
Here is the S. Weir Mitchell entry. Description will follow.
July 9.
It is my regret that several important men of nineteenth century medical science will not make it into the Cabinet Bibliography because their works were not illustrated with photographs. For example, I could not find anything written by the father of American neurology, Silas Weir Mitchell, that has photographic plates. I will take a small liberty however, and include a case history that he co-wrote for Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves which Otis reprinted in the final surgical volume of the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Otis provides a wonderful double image by the photographer William Bell (Plate XXXVIII) to illustrate a facial paresis due to a gunshot injury.
Otis borrowed heavily from Mitchell for the MSHWR, reprinting in its entirety, Circular 6 of the Surgeon General's Office (1864) titled "Reflex Paralysis."
This should do it for the George Alexander Otis contribution to the bibliography.
Added a set of eight photo albums that Otis put together, each one with 50 mounted albumens, many of which were reproduced for the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion.
Added captions to the photographic plates illustrating the second surgical section of Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Also added another photographically illustrated work by Otis.
Added four of the photographic plates to the Otis description.
Began work on the second part of the surgical volume, Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, by George A. Otis.
July 5.
Before proceeding to the surgical section of the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, here is a portrait of a veteran who underwent amputation of the lower leg. He is modeling a prosthesis, and the image was probably used by an orthopedic salesman to market his wares.
This will probably be the last volume for Joseph J. Woodward. Otis is next.
Another volume by Woodward, this one on cancer with 74 mounted photos. First published in 1872 without the photos and the following year with them. Cordasco cites an album of cancer images Woodward published in 1876 titled Photo-micrographs, 1870-1871. Cancer, which also has 74 images. I do not know if they are the same.
Here is the fourth batch.
Here is the third batch.
Here is the second batch.
Made a separate directory for Woodward, will be adding several more books. Here is the first batch.
Finished work, pretty much, on the Woodward description.
Work continued on the Woodward description. Also, here is the reverse side of the Bontecue card:
June 27.
Since we are on the subject of the Civil War, here is a rare image of Reed Bontecou who administered the largest hospital during the Civil War.
Tomorrow I will put up the second side of the card which has a photograph of Harewood Hospital.
Began work on the Medical Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. There are six massive tomes in the set, but I will only be putting up the ones with photographic plates. The first one will be Joseph Janvier Woodward's work subtitled Diarrhoea and Dysentery.
June 13.
I decided not to enter into the Cabinet Bibliography, Ribemont's doctoral thesis entitled Recherches sur l'anatomie topographique du foetus, applications a l’obstétrique because it may not actually be photographically illustrated. My information is based on a description in an old catalog printed by the antiquarian bookseller Jeff Weber of Glendale California (catalog 30, no. 132) who states that the "30 double page photo-lithographic plates" are of 76 figures drawn by the author. Would like to see the book though.
Added another book by Folsom to the bibliography.
June 10.
The Ribemont may not be strictly photographically illustrated, I am depending on a bookseller's description from an old catalog which states that there are 30 double page photographic plates. I would be surprised if this is the case for an 1878 publication. They might be heliotypes though.
Here is a link to a tintype portrait of acromegaly »»
Finished the description for the Angell treatise. Beginning work on a doctoral thesis by Ribemont.
Added another homeopathic/ophthalmology book to the bibliography written by Henry Angell, purportedly an anglophile who collected the paintings of British seascape artists. There is more biographical material to add to the description, but unfortunately I do not own the book so there will be no images.
Put up a photograph of the surgeon Sir William Macewen.
Here is the woodburytype of Hunter, somewhat enlarged.
Made an entry in the bibliography for a book by Archibald Hunter. It is the second book on hydropathy in the bibliography, the first being "Talks with my patients" by Mrs. Rachel Brooks Gleason. It has a splendid woodburytype of the author which I will add soon.
Here is the Boenninghausen.
May 31.
Started the work for including a book by Boenninghausen in the bibliography.
Listed a book on operative dentistry by Marshall Webb. Continued work on the strabismus papers. Suspect the project will occupy me for the next two months or so.
Began work on the Strabismus pages.
Listed a biographical atlas by the portrait painter Henry Barraud. It is an exceptionally rare two volume set, which I could find in only one American library. Henry Barraud is best known for the equestrian paintings he collaborated on with his brother.
May 24.
This past week I put a considerable amount of work into weeding the Cabinet and rewriting CSS so that the pages will work better on laptops and macs.
Attended a show by an artist who investigated the historical freight of Fowler's phrenology. As a follow-up to the show she will be tatooing her head to match the physiognomic character mapping as found on all those strange Fowler busts. I may have a few words to say about her work and the idea of words made flesh — to add to the Cabinet. The idea intrigues. Compare with the "IS" project of the writer Shelley Jackson.
Listed a portfolio on the subject of the anatomy of the ear by Burton Alexander Randall.
Listed the Rieger!
May 5.
Began work on a pamphlet by Conrad Rieger and co-authored by Max Tippel on the subject of volition--from what I can tell it is probably an early work on sensory-motor neuropathy. It has two collotypes, one of a frog and one of a woman with stooped and stumbling gait.
Put up a book by Voisin. He was important at the Salpetriere, especially for his support of the organic theory of neurologic disease.
More work on the Clinique photographique de l'Hopital Saint-Louis.
Did a lot of work putting up images for the Montmeja and Hardy atlas. Spent the day at it. Will continue tomorrow.
Somewhat finished with the Hugh Diamond description. Will move on to the Voisin and also putting up about half of the plates for the Hardy atlas.
Added another paragraph to the Diamond description.
And yet more work on the Hugh W. Diamond description— almost done. Will start work on a description for a book by Voisin soon.
Still more work on the Hugh W. Diamond description.
Continued work on the Hugh W. Diamond description.
Put up an article by Hugh Huger Toland of San Francisco. Restoration of the lower lip.
Put up a partial description for the second of two Diamond works.
Finished first of two Diamond descriptions. Starting second.
Continued work on Hugh Diamond.
Wrote up more description for Diamond.
Began work on the father of clinical photography, Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond. I will be putting up two works. This first one, published in parts, is cited by Gernsheim, but no copies are known to exist and quite possibly it was never published as a compilation. Diamond was a prolific essayist and lecturer on the subject of photography and I can imagine that he had a brief text printed up for each clinical portrait he made of his mental patients. Something to hand out at as a lecture guide.
Here is the first photographic atlas of foot deformities. It predates Buckminster Brown's "Cases in orthopedic history" by about three years.
A journal edited by Alexander John Balmanno Squire which ran for only one year.
Another hand colored atlas of photographs, this time by Andrew Ferguson Anderson on the subject of leprosy.
Added another small atlas by Alexander John Balmanno Squire with 22 hand colored photographs of diseases of the hair. Problem is, I cannot find a library that has the book.
Put up the first American book of medicine illustrated with photographs, "The mind unveiled," by Isaac Newton Kerlin. Two of the photographs are by Guteskunst. This brings the bibliography up to about 125 books and journals with about 30 more books ready to be compiled.
Added a review by Arthur Stout entitled, "The new electro-cautery battery."
Added another volume by Koch: "Zur Untersuchung von pathogenen Organismen" with 14 heliotypes.
Added "Verfahrungen zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren und Photographiren der Bacterien" by the great microbiologist Robert Koch.
Another Atlas from the 1890's----Dr. Max Nitze's "Kystophotographischer Atlas"---ten beautiful gravure plates of the first photographs taken from within the bladder through the use of his cystoscope adapted with a camera. I chose one of the plates which show stones.
Since we are on the subject of photographic atlases of the 1890's I put up a page for Fraser's "Guide to Brain Operations", a folio sized anatomical atlas with wonderful sectionings of the human head. I believe Fraser was the photographer. In the preface he writes an elaborate description of the camera apparatus he used to make the images, but unfortunately I did not have time to read it.
Put up a page for Macewen's atlas of frozen head sections.
Added to the description of "Human Monstrosities."
Put up a page for Human monstrosities, by Barton Cooke Hirst and George A. Piersol. Extraordinary folio sized atlas of teratoid fetuses published 1891-93. The plates are probably phototype engravings of some kind----not the best prints. This is a book that should be republished with photogravures.
Put up another issue from the Western Lancet on the subject of a fibroid tumor removed by C. T. Deane, M.D. The tumor was only 32 ounces, but he broke two piano wires during the operation. Will add a brief description in the next day or so.
Put up the legend to the first plate of the Marcy.
Put up the first plate to the Marcy.
Put up a listing for Henry Orlando Marcy on fibroid tumors of the uterus. Interesting man and very prolific. Marcy was a Surgeon Major serving under Sherman during his Southern campaign and online excerpts of his diary are a fascinating read into the destruction left by Sherman's tactics. Tomorrow will attempt to put up at least one of the heliotypes.
January 21.
House cleaning---fixed some typos and justified some omissions. Will start work on an 1883 article by Henry O. Marcy on fibroids.
Put up a listing for Sir Francis Galton, cousin to Charles Darwin. The frontispiece heliotype might be the first published example of a composite photograph?
Put up a listing for Claude Bernard, L'Oeuvre. It is an 1881 edition, but one online bookseller out of Germany lists an 1871 edition. Probably it is a typo because the first year of publishing is 1881 according to all the library catalogs that I use. I am curious to find what other books of his that might have photographic illustrations. One catalog lists over 100 Bernard works so there must be some hidden gem yet to discover from this French monument to medicine.
Put up a listing for A manual of psychological medicine and allied nervous diseases by Edward C. Mann.
Put up a listing for a book of homeopathy by Eduard Grauvogl. This is the English/American edition published about 4 years after the first German edition. I do not know yet if the German edition has the mounted albumen portrait of Grauvogl in his military uniform. My guess is that it doesn't, but I will continue to look for a copy to examine.
Put up a description for the Wigglesworth.
As promised, I put up the image for Edward Wigglesworth, Jr. article on fibromata of the skin. I have reasons to believe it is the work of the photographer Josiah Hawes and will make the argument soon.
Put up a listing for an article on dermatological fibroids by the emminent Edward Wigglesworth of Harvard. I am making an attribution for the heliotype that accompanies the article. To my eye it looks like a Josiah Hawes. I will add the image tomorrow and maybe write up a description by tomorrow as well.
Added more information and links to the Duchenne listing.
Put up a listing for a scarce book on bone-setting by George Matthew Bennett of England.
January 5.
I had to remove a volume from the bibliography. A bookseller mistakenly represented that Charcot's Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à la Salpêtrière contained two photographs of bone fragments. Unhappily for me that they turned out to be only lithographic drawings. Such is the story of the hunt more often than not.
Added a description to the Zehender book.
There are now 100 titles in the bibliography.
