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In the list that follows, call numbers in parenthesis have been provided only for items from the collections of the National Library of Medicine. All measurements, when available, are given in centimeters unless otherwise noted.

The Balance of Passions

  • Walter Ryff (d. 1548), Spiegel und Regiment der Gesundheyt, Frankfort, 1555. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of woodcut illustration.

    A Long Tradition

  • Johannes de Ketham (fl. 1455-1470), Fasciculus Medicinae, Venice 1495. Book: 31 (h) x 43 (open width) (WZ240 K43f 1495).

    Description of the Humoral system. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of illustration with English translation of the original Latin text. Based on an original illustration in Fasciculus Medicinae.

  • Hippocrates (ca. 460 B.C.Bca. 370 B.C.), Hippokratous . . . Iatrike, Basel, 1543. Book: 15 (h) x 21 (open width). (WZ240 H667 1543).

  • Galen (131-201), Opera ex sexte Juntarum editione, 1586. Book: 36.5 (h) x 48.5 (open width). (WZ 240 G153L 1586 v. 1.)

    Opera ex sexte Juntarum editione
    Galen, Opera ex sexte Juntarum editione, Venice 1586.

  • Galen (131-201), Opera ex sexte Juntarum editione, 1586. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of illustration of a lovesick maiden taken from title page illustration.

  • Johanna Engel (1463-1512), Astrolabium Planum in Tabulis Ascendens, 1488, copy 1. Book: 25.5 (h) x 37.5 (open width). (WZ230 A585a 1488 c.1.)

    Astrolabium Planum in Tabulis
    Johanna Engel (1463-1512), Astrolabium Planum in Tabulis
    Ascendens, Augsburg, 1488

  • Gregor Reisch (d. 1525), Margarita Philosophica cum Additionibus Novis, Basel, 1517. Book: 21.5 (h) x 36 (open width). (WZ240 R375m 1517).

    Gregor Reisch (d. 1525), Margarita Philosophica cum Additionibus Novis, Basel, 1517. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of illustration of profile of head.

  • Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), Tractatus Rabbi Moysi de Regimine Sanitatis ad Soldanum Regem, Augsburg, 1518. Book: 20 (h) x 28 (open width). (WZ240 M911tL 1518).

  • Justus Cortnumm (ca. 1624-1675 m.), De Morbo Attonito Liber Unus, Leipzig, 1677. Book: 21 (h) H 33 (open width). (WZ250 C8298dm 1677).

  • Ambroise Paré (1510?-1590), The Workes, London, 1649. Book: 33 (h) x 45.5 (open width). (WZ250 fP227E 1649).

  • Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), Bobonne, Bobonne, tu me ferais un monstre comme ça, ne le regarde pas tant!, 1860s. Lithograph: 33 (h) x 25 (w).

  • Robert Burton (1577-1640), The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed for Henry Cripps, 1632. Book: 29 (h) x 37.5 (open width). (WZ250 B9745a) 1632.

    The Anatomy of Melancholy
    Robert Burton (1577-1640), The Anatomy of Melancholy,
    Oxford 1632

  • William Falconer (1744-1824), A Dissertation on the Influence of the Passions Upon the Disorders of the Body, London, 1788. Book: 20.5 (h) x 27 (open width). (WZ260 F179d) 1788.

    Mechanical Bloodletting Devices:

    Bloodletting lancet, 19th century. Lancet: 1/2"(h) x 1" (w) 2" (l). Scarifactor, 19th century. Scarifactor: 2" (h) x 1"(w) x 2" (l). Artificial leech, 1879. Leech: 5"(h)x 1" (dia).

    These mechanical bloodletting devices were used by physicians in the nineteenth century, an indication of the long persistence of humoral theory in the seventeenth century.
    These mechanical bloodletting devices were used by physicians in the nineteenth century, an indication of the long persistence of humoral theory in the seventeenth century.
    Courtesy Historical Collections, The National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.

  • Johannes de Ketham (fl. 1455-1470), Fasciculus Medicinae, Venice 1495. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of illustration of bloodletting sites.

    Fasciculus Medicinae
    Johannes de Ketham (fl. 1455-1470), Fasciculus Medicinae, Venice1495.

    The Challenge of Anatomy

  • Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564), De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Venice, 1568. Book: 32.5 (h) x 45 (open width). (WZ240 fV575d) 1568.

  • Andreas Vesalius's (1514-1564), De Humani Corporis Fabrica, Venice, 1568. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of illustration of autopsy/dissection tools.

  • Thomas Willis (1621-1675), The Remaining Medical Works of Thomas Willis, London, 1679. Book: 34 (h) x 46.5 (open width). (WZ250 fW35phE 1679a).

  • Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf Physiologische und Pathologische Gewebelehre, Berlin, 1858. Book: 22 (h) x 29.5 (open width). (QSA V813c) 1858.

  • Laënnec-style Stethoscope . Stethoscope: 10" (l) x 1.5" (dia).
    Courtesy Historical Collections, The National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.

  • Postcard of Laënnec , A l'Hopital Necker, Ausculte Un Phtisique, original painting by Théobald Chartran (1849-1907). Postcard: 15.7 (h) x 12 (w).

  • René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec (1781-1826), De l'Auscultation Médiate, ou, Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur (On Mediate Ascultation, or, Treatise on the Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Lungs and Heart), Paris, 1819. Book: 21 (h) H 26 (open width with illustration). (WF L158de).

  • Microscope, 1864. 11" (h) x 16" (l) x 9.5" (d).

    Joseph Woodward used this microscope in his pioneering work as a microscopist. The mirror reflected the light from a window through the microscope and onto a photoplate, thereby allowing Woodward--or other scientists --to photographically capture certain features of cells.
    Joseph Woodward used this microscope in his pioneering work as a microscopist. The mirror reflected the light from a window through the microscope and onto a photoplate, thereby allowing Woodward--or other scientists --to photographically capture certain features of cells.
    Courtesy Historical Collections, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.

  • Autopsy/dissection kit, ca. 1845. 1" (h) x 3" (w) x 7" (l) closed.

    This autopsy kit from ca. 1845 shows instruments more refined than those of the sixteen century, although their basic design is not much altered.
    This autopsy kit from ca. 1845 shows instruments more refined than those of the sixteen century, although their basic design is not much altered.
    Courtesy Historical Collections, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.

  • Edouard Hamman (1819-1888),Andreas Vesalius, ca. 1848. Lithograph: 31.2 (h) 40.2 (w).

    The Compromise

  • William Cullen (1710-1790), First Lines of the Practice of Physics,Edinburgh, 1784. (WZ260 C967f) 1784.

  • Roberty Whytt (1714-1766), Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of Those Disorders Which Have Been Commonly Called Nervous, Hypochondriac, or Hysteric, Edinburgh, 1765. Book: 20.5 (h) H 28 (open width).

    Roberty Whytt (1714-1766), Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of Those Disorders Which Have Been Commonly Called Nervous, Hypochondriac, or Hysteric, Edinburgh, 1765.
    Roberty Whytt (1714-1766), Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Cure of Those Disorders Which Have Been Commonly Called Nervous, Hypochondriac, or Hysteric, Edinburgh, 1765.

  • Austin Flint (1812-1886), A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, Philadelphia, 1868. (WB F623t) 1868.

Psychosomatic Medicine: The "Puzzling Leap"

  • André Brouillet , Une Leçon Clinique à la Salpêtrière, 1887. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of painting. B4519.

  • Camera, ca. 1900. Camera: 16" (h) H 16" (w) H 42" (l).
    Courtesy Historical Collections, The National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.

  • Désiré-Magloire Bourneville and Paul Regnard , Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtière, Paris, 1877-1880. Graphics: Two Photographic reproductions of two patients with hysteria.

  • Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), Le malade imaginaire, 1860s. Lithograph. (illustrated page x)
    Courtesy Penny Herscovitch.

  • Joseph Breuer (1842-1925) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Studies on Hysteria, New York 1957. WM173 B846s 1957.

  • Sidney Chafetz , Portrait of Sigmund Freud, 1964. Etching: 69 (h) H 56 (w).

  • Psychosomatic Medicine , September-October 1959. W1 P582.

    H. Flanders Dunbar (1902-1959), Emotions and Bodily Changes: A Survey of Literature on Psychomatic Interrelationships, 1910-1933, New York, 1935. Book: 24.5 (h) H 35.5 (open width). WM90 D898e 1935

  • Georg Groddeck (1866-1934), The Book of the It, New York, 1928. Book: 23 (h) H 32.5 (open width). W1 NE211 v. 49.

  • Franz Alexander (1891-1964), Psychosomatic Medicine, New York, 1950. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of schematic representation of specificity in the etiology of the peptic ulcer.

  • Helen Lundeberg (1908- ), Double Portrait of the Artist in Time, 1935. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of oil painting.

    Double Portrait of the Artist in Time
    Double Portrait of the Artist in Time
    Helen Lundeberg

    Psychosomatic medicine traced the diseases suffered as an adult back to the developmental dramas and traumas of early childhood.
    Courtesy National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

  • Roy Grinker (1900 ) and John P. Spiegel (1911 ), War Neuroses in North Africa: The Tunisian Campaign (January-May, 1943). Prepared and distributed for the Air Surgeon, Army Air Forces by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, New York, September 1943. Book: 23 (h) H 15 (w). WM184 G867w 1943.

    Roy Grinker (1900 ) and John P. Spiegel (1911 ), Men Under Stress, Philadelphia, 1945. Book: 33 (h) H 23 (w). WM184 G867m 1945.

  • Thomas W. Salmon (1876-1927), The Care and Treatment of Mental Diseases and War Neuroses ("Shell Shock") in the British Army, War Work Committee of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, New York, 1917. Book: 24.5 (h) H 46.5 (open width with illustration). US 629 S172c 1917.

Self-Healing, Patents, and Placebos

  • Pharmaceutical Era , February 1889. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of illustration of pharmacy designed and built by C.H. Bangs.

  • Pharmacy Bottle. Bottle: 26" (h) H 6" (dia).

    Pharmacy Bottle.
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits Upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them, New York, 1811. Book: 17 (h) H 21.5 (open width). WZ270 R952i 1811.

  • Albert Vernon, Correspondence Course of Instruction in the Science of Psychratism or Prowess of the Human Mind, Rochester, New York, The Vernon Academy of Mental Sciences and The Vernon Sanatorium, 1900. Book: 17.5 (h) H 53.5 (open width). BF V539c 1900.

    Correspondence Course of Instruction in the Science of Psychratism or Prowess of the Human Mind
    Albert Vernon, Correspondence Course of Instruction in the Science of Psychratism or Prowess of the Human Mind, Rochester, New York.

  • Julia Anderson Root , Healing Power of Mind: A Treatise on Mind-Cure, with Original Views on the Subject and Complete Instructions for Practice and Self-Treatment, Peoria, Illinois, 1886. Book: 20.5 (h) H 32.5 (w). WM R806h 1886.

  • William James : Investigator of the Subliminal Consciousness. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of a photograph. B15230.

  • Charles Fremont Winbigler (1857-1925), How to Help and Heal One's Self or a New Outlook on Life, Los Angeles, 1916. Book: 20 (h) x 14 (w). QT180 W758h 1916.

    John Kearsley Mitchell (1859-1917), Self Help for Nervous Women: Familiar Talks on Economy in Nervous Expenditure, Philadelphia, 1909. Book: 20 (h) x 14 (w).WM M675s 1909.

    Charles Fremont Winbigler, How to Help and Heal One's Self or a New Outlook on Life, John Kearsley Mitchell, Self Help for Nervous Women: Familiar Talks on Economy in Nervous Expenditure
    Charles Fremont Winbigler (1857-1925), How to Heal and Help One's Self or a New Outlook on Life, Los Angelas, 1916
    John Kearsley Mitchell (1859-1917), Self Help for Nervous Women: Familiar talks on Economy in Nervous Expenditure, Philadelphia, 1909

  • Reader's Digest , "Laughter is the Best Medicine," April 1958. Magazine: 7" (h) H 10" (w).
    Courtesy Ghilta Sternberg.

  • Norman Vincent Peale (1888-1994), The Power of Positive Thinking, New York, 1992, c1952. Book: 7"(h) x 4" (w).

    Thomas A. Harris (1913- ), I'm Okay--You're OK, New York, 1973, c1967. Book: 7" (h) x 4" (w).

  • Perkins Metallic Tractors , late 18th century. Tractors: 3" (l) x 1/2" (w).
    Courtesy Historical Collections, The National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C.

  • John Haygarth , Of the Imagination as a Cause and as a Cure of Disorders of the Body; Exemplified by Fictitious Tractors, and Epidemical Convulsions, 1800. Book: 21.5 (h) x 27.5 (w). WZ260 H4210 1800.

  • Benjamin Douglas Perkins (1774-1810), The Family Remedy; or, Perkins's Patent Metallic Tractors, For the Relief of Topical Disease of the Human Body: And of Horses, 1800. Pamphlet: 22.5 (h) x 14.5 (w). WBC P448c 1801.

  • Unicorn's horn . Horn: 73" (h) x 4" (dia).
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Warner's Safe Cure Almanac and Book of Handy Information 1895. Buffalo, New York. Book: 22 (h) x 15.5 (w). W6 P3 no. 7475.

    Kickapoo Oil: Relief from Aches and Pains.

    Nerve & Bone Liniment.

    Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.

    Hood's Sarsaparilla, Gentian and Bitter Orange Compound.

    Bliss Native Balsam.

    Swamp Root.

    Milks Emulsion Natures Remedy.

    Erso Anti-Bilious Bitters.

    Pastor Koenig's Nervine for Nervous Aliments.

    Goldine Tonic and Nervine.

    Ads Compound Syrup Hypophosphites Clear.
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Humphreys' Remedies sign. Sign: 16" (h) x 12" (w).
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Powdered unicorn horn
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Four Batteries . Batteries: 1" (dia) to 1" (dia).
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Sir William Osler Portrait of . Graphic: Photographic reproduction of painting. 20142.

  • Milk Sugar . Bottle: 5" (h) x 2" (dia).
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Antilirium Placebo . Bottle: 4" (h) x 2" (dia).
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Cebocap Placebos Cabocap No. 1. Bottle 2" (h) x 1" (dia). Cabocap No. 2. Bottle 2" (h) x 1" (dia). Cabocap No. 3. Bottle 2" (h) x 1" (dia).
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Placebos

    Nardil Placebo.
    Placebo for Elavil HC1.
    Placebo for Stelazine.
    Placebo for Valium.
    Courtesy Elaine and Arthur Shapiro.

  • Jon D. Levine , Newton C. Gordon, Howard L. Fields, "The Mechanism of Placebo Analgesia," The Lancet, September 23, 1978. Book: 28 (h) x 38 (open width). W1 LA453.

Stress and Deprivation

  • Long Island Expressway. Peter Gridley, Graphic: Photographic reproduction of photograph.
    Courtesy Peter Gridley/FPG.

  • Walter Bradford Cannon Graphic: Photographic reproduction of photograph. B30295.

    Walter Bradford Cannon (1871-1945), Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent Researches into the Functions of Emotional Excitement, New York, 1915. BF511 C266b 1915.

  • Hans Selye (1907-1982), The Physiology and Pathology of Exposure to Stress, Montreal, 1950. Book: 24.8 (h) H 39.5 (open width). QZ140 S469p 1950.

  • American Journal of Nursing , March 1965. W1 AM495.

  • Reader's Digest, February 1957. Magazine: 19 (h) H 27 (open width).
    Courtesy Ghilta Sternberg.

  • Dismissal (or) Pink Slip, Howard Taft Lorenz, 1940. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of oil painting.
    Courtesy National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, transfer from Museum of Modern Art.

  • Monica , 1950s. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of six original photographs of Monica.

    2/26/54 Applegate, Histamine laboratory "flowsheets." Graphic: Photographic reproduction of original laboratory notes.
    Courtesy Dr. George Engel.

  • B. Kent Houston and C.R. Snyder, editors, Type A Behavior Pattern: Research, Theory, and Intervention, New York, 1988. Book: 24 (h) x 36 (w). WG300 T991 1988.

  • Volvo Assembly Line , Sweden, ca. 1987. Graphic: Two photographic reproductions of the assembly line.
    Courtesy Volvo Truck Corporation, Powertrain Division, Skövde, Sweden.

  • Saratoga Spa, N.Y., ca. 1950s. Postcard: 3" (h) x 5".
    Courtesy Ghilta Sternberg.

  • Betty White with Thomas J. Watson, Betty White's Pet-Love: How Pets Take Care of Us, New York, 1983. Book: 21.5 (h) x 30
    (open width). DD8254.

    Some hospitals, hospices and nursing homes have discovered that patients feel calmer and less depressed in the presence of a loving, furry friend--some may even become more stable physiologically or recover more quickly from their illness as a result of their involvement in pet therapy.
    Some hospitals, hospices and nursing homes have discovered that patients feel calmer and less depressed in the presence of a loving, furry friend--some may even become more stable physiologically or recover more quickly from their illness as a result of their involvement in "pet therapy."
    Courtesy of People-Pet Partnership Program

Frontiers of the Mind
How Emotions Matter

  • Position Emission Tomography (PET Scanner), Graphic: Photographic reproduction.
    Courtesy GE Medical Systems.

  • Neurotransmitters Graphic: photographic reproduction from Emotions and Disease video. Illustrated by Bob Howard Computer Graphics.

  • Optical imaging camera Camera: 14.4 (h) x 13.21 (w) x 21.9 (d).
    Courtesy Photometrics, Ltd.

  • Image created by optical imaging camera. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of imaging camera output.
    Courtesy Ehud Kaplan and Richard Everson, Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York.

  • PET scans of brain activity during transient sadness and happiness. Graphic: Photographic reproductions of PET scans.
    Courtesy Mark S. George, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

  • Functional magnetic resonance image (fMRI) of brain activity of a person looking at faces. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of fMRI.
    Courtesy V.P. Clark, K. Keil, J. Ma. Maisog, S. Courteny, L.G. Ungerleider, and J.V. Haxby, National Institute of Mental Health.

  • Activation of T-cells Graphic: Photographic reproduction of illustration.

    The Immune System and the Nervous System. Graphic: Photographic reproduction of illustration.

  • Computerized photomicrographic microscope. graphic: Photographic reproduction.
    Courtesy Leica Inc., Deerfield, Illinois.

    A Dynamic Balance

  • An overactive amygdala Graphic: Photographic reproduction of Emotions and Disease video illustration. Illustrated by Bob Howard Computer Graphics.

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