Images from the Library

From Nicholas Culpeper’s Culpeper’s complete herbal with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compuounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c (1852). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading

Digital Highlights: The Trial of Madame Restell

Click through the pages above or follow this link to read Trial of Madame Restell, alias Ann Lohman, for abortion and causing the death of Mrs. Purdy : being a full account of all the proceedings on the trial, together with the suppressed evidence and editorial remarks (1841). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading