Description | English: “Hygienic vacuum cap,” supposed to prevent baldness: “It forces circulation of blood through the hair roots.” |
Date | 1913 |
Source | Advertisement in The Motion Picture Story Magazine |
Author | Anonymous |
Category Archives: Science & Medicine
Science, Aladdin’s Lamp of Today
Description | English: Chemist examining a sample, from a 1925 advertisement for Benedict Laboratories, Inc. |
Date | 1925 |
Source | Advertisement for Benedict Laboratories, Inc., in Ziffs Magazine |
Author | Anonymous |
Migraine
Description | English: Woman with migraine, from an advertisement for a migraine remedy |
Date | 1913 |
Source | Advertisement for Cérébrine in L’Illustration (https://archive.org/details/illustration3679/3679-000B.jpg) |
Author | Anonymous |
Scientist with Laboratory Rats
Description | English: Scientist weighing a laboratory rat and discovering that it thrives on yeast, from an advertisement for Fleischmann’s yeast |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Photoplay (https://archive.org/details/phojun22chic/page/n331/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
The Movie Doctor, by G. Francis Kauffman
Description | English: A movie doctor, by G. Francis Kauffman. “You know him at once by his carriage, by the way he holds his head—and by his black bag. In the movies, doctors always carry black bags” |
Date | 1922 |
Source | Motion Picture Magazine (https://archive.org/details/motionpicturemag23brew/page/n509/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | G. Francis Kauffman |
Guarding Baby’s Health
Description | English: “Guarding Baby’s Health—and Yours,” from an advertisement for Lysol disinfectant |
Date | 1923 |
Source | Advertisement for Lysol disinfectant in The Delineator (https://archive.org/details/delineator102olou/page/72/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Pregnant Queen
Description | English: Pregnant queen, from the title page of a book of anecdotes of childbirth |
Date | 1892 |
Source | Anecdotes & curiosites historiques sur les accouchements (https://archive.org/details/anecdotescuriosi00witk/page/n5/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Metal Workshop in 1580
Description | English: Title vignette from a 1580 treatise on mining and metalworking |
Date | 1580 |
Source | Beschreibung allerfürnemisten mineralischen Ertzt vnnd Bergkwercks Arten https://archive.org/details/beschreibungalle00erck/page/n11/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
Recipe Marks
Description | English: Recipe (prescription) marks from a 1901 type catalogue |
Date | 1901 |
Source | Pettingill & Co. Copper Alloy Type Book (https://archive.org/details/copperalloytypeb00pett/page/328/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |