[Rarebooks] FS: Medical- Botanic Med, Embalming, Patent Medicine, more-

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, Ephemera & Photographs]

Four Varied Healthy Items-


1) 1870s New England Chronic Disease Traveling Specialists Business 
Card. An elegant business card for Drs. William S. Severance and E.W. 
Royce, “Chronic diseases a specialty by preference”, who will be at 
Crawford’s House in Boston on the 1st and 2nd days of every month of the 
year. The good doctors seem to have also traveled Vermont as they took 
out much the same advertisements in a number of papers in that state for 
monthly appearances. The Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association published 
a memorial of Dr. Severance [1829-1918], a member, in 1919, and note 
that he lived in Greenfield, Shelburne Falls, and several Vermont towns 
during his career. 4.5”x2.5”. Minor soil, light wear. $20

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2) "On a Method of Embalming the Dead by the use of Thymol”. By Dr. 
Wywodzoff. Printed in Philadelphia for the Russian Commission in 1876. 
Dr. Wywodzoff had recently published  sweeping study of embalming, and 
here recounts some experiments he conducted himself, with descriptions 
of the process and apparatus involved. Thymol is a plant-based 
antiseptic found in thyme and bee-balm which has been found useful by 
both the medical and culinary fields. Its use in embalming does not seem 
to have caught on. Softcover. 5.5”x9”. 10 pages, 1 text illustrations. 
Minor soil, light wear, spine splitting. Cover stamped “Dr. S. T. 
Armstrong”. $65

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3)  Early 20th C. National Remedy Company Patent Medicine “Looking for 
Agents” Ephemera. The National Remedy Company, “Manufacturing Chemists 
(and) Proprietary Medicines”, of New York City, were looking for agents 
to sell their cra-, er, patent medicines of great value and efficacy. 
Hmm. Although I cannot find any record of the company having ever been 
sued or indicted, their remedies as listed here included Wonderful 
Japanese Oil, Dr. Swan’s Liver & Kidney Cure, National Specific for 
Malaria, and Cascara Pills, so draw your own conclusions. 3 pieces. 
Letter 6”x9”; form 6”x7”; envelope 5.5”x3”. Folds, some light soil, 
minor wear, corner slice.  $25

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4)  1880s Boston Botanic Physician Dr. William Frederic Business Card. 
“Dr. William Frederic is prepared to cure with botanic medicines acute & 
chronic diseases in men, women & children. All medicines are prepared by 
the Doctor personally, and without poison”. Card. 3.5”x2”. Minor soil, 
light wear. Pencil notes on the back. $35

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