In Young, A. Madame Young's Guide to health; her experience and practice for nearly forty years; a true family herbal (Rochester, N.Y., 1858), frontispiece., Young was a practicing physician who authored Madame Young's Guide to health, a manual intended to instruct women in the use of herbal and family medicine., "Of all men, the physician should be a liberal-minded man-- ever anxious to learn all that will enable him to be of benefit to his suffering fellow-creatures. He should never conclude that he has nothing more to know, or that he can find all knowledge in any one system, or theory, of practice; he should ever be ready to learn, from every body. He who expects to find out all that can be known, in one train of reasoning, or round of study, is like a man traveling upon a circle"--P.146-147., Bust-length portrait of Madame Young, wearing a bonnet, eyeglasses, and a cross necklace.
In Hammond, L.M. Trials and triumphs of an orphan girl; or the biography of Mrs. Deiadamia Chase, physician and phrenologist (Cortland, N.Y., 1859), frontispiece., Mrs. Chase, orphaned in childhood, became a physician who advocated the use of phrenology., Waist-length portrait of Mrs. Chase., Another portrait appears in: American phrenological journal, v. 15 (May, 1852), p. 100.
View of garden and part of south facade of College of Physicians building at 19 South 22nd St.Designed by architects Cope & Stewardson, building was built 1907., Photographer's manuscript note on verso: Middle Renaissance., Gift of Margaret Odewalt Sweeney., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Wilson, G. Mark (George Mark), 1879-1925, photographer
Date
ca. 1923
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Wilson 179 [P.8513.179], http://www.lcpimages.org/wilson/wilson179.htm
The quack doctor has a bird's head and wears a jacket, trousers, and a waistcoat., Text: In man's varied life are many ills -- / You say you cure by Magic Pills; / I would not trust you to a poor sick crow, / And I abhor you for my beau, / Your head is brainless, and with wit doth lack, / You nasty ape, and meddling Quack., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
The doctor stands in profile, holding a bottle labeled "mercury." He wears a top hat, trousers, and a coat with tails, and a large syringe hangs from his trousers., Text: All sickness and ills, you say, you can cure / By your all-healing garble and pill; / You relieve them from pain : of this I'm quite sure; / For, if you can't cure, you can kill., Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Bound volume of portraits primarily delineated by Max Rosenthal showing prominent Philadelphians, and historical and military figures, including members of the Continental Congress, clergyman, legislators, government officials, physicians, military officers, artists, and authors. Contains full-length, half-length, bust-length, and profile portraits, with some containing backgrounds and props. Also includes the front page of a September 1885 edition of "Paper and Press" containing a portrait and biography of Philadelphia publisher Henry Carey Baird and an article about printed blanks.
