This photograph of leprosy affecting a young male subject comes from John Wood's book of poems titled, Endurance & Suffering. The book was reviewed by the Canadian Medical Association Journal—the print version of the journal has 65,000 subscribers and the on-line version gets over a million hits a month. To access the PDF file of the review, click on "Begin manual download" on the web page here »» An expanded version with more images and poems can be accessed directly here »»
Add a letter review of the photo-book, "Clinic," edited by Rémi Faucheux, co-founder with Matthieu Charon of RVB Books in Paris.
Catalogued Henri-Pierre Châtellier's monograph on adenoid tumors titled, "Des tumeurs adenoïdes du pharynx."
Catalogued Auguste-Adrien Ollivier's textbook on childhood diseases titled, "Leçons cliniques sur les maladies des enfants."
Began cataloging Eberth. Also added a few references to papers on photomicrography written by Piersol »».
Began cataloguing a paper on the congenital disorder of anophthalmos written by Dr. Edward Treacher Collins.
Catalogued a paper titled, "Cases of zoster, or unilateral confluent herpes, of the ophthalmic region," by England's father of histological anatomy and ophthalmic surgery, Sir William Bowman.
Catalogued a paper titled, "Tumor des rechten oberen Augenlids," by Wilhelm Zehender.
Catalogued a paper titled, "Zur Casuistik und Diagnostik der Orbitaltumoren," by the Estonian ophthalmologist, Georg Philipp von Oettingen.
Catalogued a paper titled, "Sarkom des rechten oberen Augenlieds," by Wilhelm Robert Max Lilienfeld.
Catalogued a paper on air-borne microorganisms titled, "Organisms of air-dust," by navy surgeon Thomas Hale Streets.
Updated Sternberg on photomicrography.
Added two important names to the bibliography, Dr. Austin Flint, Sr. and the successful studio photographer, Benjamin Jake Falk.
Cataloged a testimonial pamphlet titled, "Monument élevé à F.-A. Pouchet dans le Museum d'histoire naturelle de Rouen."
Updated Sternberg's translation of Antoine Magnin's textbook of bacteriology.
Albumen photograph by James Wallace Black of Boston, representing an enormous echondroma of the scapula. The photograph is archived at Princeton and was exhibited in the show, 'Body Memory' Selections from the current exhibition of drawings, prints, photographs, and collages at the University Art Museum (v. »») The subject was a 26 year old farmer from Norwich, Connecticut, and his case was reported by Dr. Henry Bigelow of Harvard in the BMSJ under the title, "Enchondromatous Tumor of the Scapula" (vol. 70-71, pp. 169-170). A number of photographs were taken of the subject including images of postmortem bone specimens. A body cast was also made and deposited at the Warren Museum with the photographs and specimens (v. »»).
Cataloged a slim book titled, "Memoirs of eminent men of Leeds," compiled by "A Leeds Man."
Cataloged a another biographical commemorative with a photograph, this one is on the life of Dr. Robert Archer.
Cataloged a monograph on food adulteration, written by Jesse Park Battershall.
Cataloged another report on Hawaiian leprosy by Dr. Arthur Wellsley Saxe. The name of the photographer is given as H. Schoene of San Francisco, but it is unclear if he was commissioned by the Hawaiian Board of Health or was simply the printer of the negatives. This snippet appeared in the Philadelphia Photographer a few years earlier:
"Mr. H. Schoene, Santa Clara, Cal., sends us fifteen cabinet portraits of Chinese lepers in the Pest-house at San Francisco. They form a truly horrifying collection, and we shrink from imagining the photographer's sensations when posing these revolting subjects; it must take a steady nerve to do it."
Made some corrections to the description of the Brachet title.
Cataloged another promotional for a mineral spa. Titled, "Aperçu clinique sur les eaux d’Aix et de Marlioz, Savoie et sur leurs adjuvants....etc.," by Dr. Leon Brachet.
Added a paper by Mary Corinna Putnam-Jacobi titled, "Case of probable tumor of the pons."
Updated Edward Constant Seguin.
Catalogued the "Biography of Rev. Alfred J. Fox, M.D.," written by his son, Rev. Junius Bost Fox.
Catalogued Arthur Batut, "La photographie appliquée a la production du type d'une famille, d'une tribu ou d'une race."
Catalogued Galton's paper, "Generic images."
Back to work on the bibliography. Here is a paper on physiognomy by Joseph Jacobs titled, "On the Racial Characteristics of Modern Jews." The plates were commissioned from Dr. Francis Galton.
Plate illustrating Dr. Carlo Cividalli's study on microcephaly, "Su di un idiota microcefalo," published in the journal, Bulletino della Reale Accademia Medica di Roma, volume 17, pages 348-364. Jpeg is linked to the article on Google Books.
Cataloged a paper on dislocation of the cervical vertebrae, written by Dr. George Lincoln Walton.
Cataloged a paper on congenital hypertrophy of the lower extremities, written by Dr. Charles Graefe of Sandusky Ohio.
Case of acromegaly reported in 1891 by Dr. Charles Long of Wilkes-Barre. The jpeg is linked to the paper published in the Transactions of the Luzerne County Medical Society.
Cataloged a paper by Edward Mott Moore, the "Father of the Rochester Park System."
Cataloged a paper written by Dr. Louis McLane Tiffany.
Mr. Pearsall thought the medical profession and society at large would be greatly benefited by the application of photography to the illustration of the various stages of the diseases of the human frame. He had frequently been called upon to make sketches of the progress of disease, but it was impossible for an artist to follow the rapid changes which sometimes took place in cases of a complicated character. In this respect, therefore, photography was of the greatest value. Its importance to the palaeontologist was also manifested in the illustrations given of the restorations of extinct animals. With regard to the illustrations of the distress in Lancashire, he thought it was a remarkable proof of the perfection to which the art of wood engiaving had been brought, that the subjects exhibited this evening boar the severe test of the high magnifying power to which they had been subjected in the lantern.—Page 147, Discussion following a lecture on the magic lantern, presented by Samuel Highley and published in the Journal of the Society of Arts, January 1863 (vol. xi) »»
Extraordinary case of an untreated inguinal hernia and artificial anus in a 54 year-old female. The sac contained much of her intestinal tract and omentum. The 8 inches of procidentia recti served all bowel functions. Case was reported by Dr. A. K. West of Smithville, Tenn., in the Memphis Medical Monthly (1897, Vol. xvii, p. 115).
Cataloged Dr. Joseph Frank Payne's edition of Linacre's Galen.
