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Memorandum Book with Medical Lecture Notes of Dr. Jacob Burger, of Franklin Square, Columbiana County, Ohio, graduate of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1854-1895 by Burger, Jacob

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Title: Memorandum Book with Medical Lecture Notes of Dr. Jacob Burger, of Franklin Square, Columbiana County, Ohio, graduate of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1854-1895
Author: Burger, Jacob
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Good. small quarto, 73 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in contemporary ¼ leather and marbled paper covered boards, binding, worn, rubbed and scuffed, entries are written in ink, in a legible hand. Dr. Jacob Burger (1832-1903) Jacob Burger was born in October 1832 in Ohio. Burger's 1903 death notice in the American Medicine Journal, states that he graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio in 1856. Eclectic medicine was a branch of American medicine which made use of botanical remedies along with other substances and physical therapy practices, which was popular in the latter half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries. The term was coined by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1784-1841), a physician who lived among the Native Americans and observed their use of medicinal plants. Rafinesque used the word eclectic to refer to those physicians who employed whatever was found to be beneficial to their patients. Burger is said to have settled at Franklin Square, Columbiana County, Ohio in 1859, where he established a medical practice. In the 1860 Census we find a "Jacob Burger," physician, enumerated at Salem, Columbiana County. The post office for this area of Salem was "Franklin Square." We learn also from the 1860 Census information that Burger was married, his wife's name was Emma. The couple had two children, Sarah, aged 3, and an infant aged three months, who was at the time still unnamed. The family was still living at Franklin Square in 1880, when that census was taken. Burger was listed as a physician surgeon. Dr. Burger spent the rest of his life at Franklin Square engaged in the practice of medicine, he died there of a stroke on January 27, 1903. Description of the Memorandum Book The first page of the volume bears the inscription "Coroners Witness Fee Certificate The State of Ohio Col. C. 1890." This note states that "Dr. J. Burger," acted as a witness and was to receive $ 10.00 for attendance as witness at the inquest of the death of a woman whose death was caused by "violence." The next section of the volume contains a two page discourse on "intellectual powers," and consists of a disquisition on the "brutishness" of the South Seas Islands people as compared to those "with intellectual powers." Following this is a fourteen page essay on politics headed: "Resolved: That in times of political discussion it is the duty of every citizen to express his sentiments freely, and attach himself to some party." This essay was written as the "first debate with the Senior Class, and finished on Saturday morning Oct 7th 1854, Wittenberg College, D. Burger." The above section is followed by a fifty pages with notes on the "Lectures of Prof. King," consisting of sixteen different medical lectures for the school year of 1855-1856. The lectures were given by Prof. John King (1813-1893) who lectured at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati, from which Dr. Burger graduated. King published books on "women's diseases," as well as guides to health. He was professor of Obstetrics at the institute. The lectures cover various diseases, their symptoms, treatment, with medical prescriptions. The final section of the volume includes a twelve page list of names and dates. The first date is 1859, the last year is 1895. There are 276 entries and are presumably the names of his patients of Franklin Square. There are also eight pages of medical recipes scattered throughout the volume.

Typed Letter Signed, New York, January 25, 1909 to Harvey Huffman, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania by Collins, G. C.

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Title: Typed Letter Signed, New York, January 25, 1909 to Harvey Huffman, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Author: Collins, G. C.
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: quarto, two pages, with original mailing envelope of "Diane de Poictiers Co. Perfumers", 22 East 21 St., "removed to 10 and 12 West 22nd St." "… I'm going to take a store opposite the Waldorf-Astoria… all our fine customers live uptown and they want me to move up higher… I have been on the waiting list for a store on 33rd Street and have secured one right opposite the ladies entrance of Waldorf, and expect to sign the lease tomorrow … As our goods appeal only to the very wealthy class why it behoves me to get up among them. The store is just eight feet wide, with a show window, and forty-eight feet deep and it is up to me to make that one of the most beautiful and artistic stores in New York. It will cost me about eight hundred dollars to tear things out and get everything as I want it. My idea is to have the walls white satin striped with a border of pale pink roses showering down in long strips, pale green Royal Tilton carpets, green velvet furniture made to order, ferns in gold vases and on the opening day, the first of March, there will be masses of flowers everywhere. And … I have designed a new theatre hat that is going to shake New York, it is a dream… we do not want anyone to copy it until I get it patented… I'll have my private office in the back, you know I do not appear in the business, I just create and boss and rake in the 'mon.' … I must be doing something the stagnation of Stroudsburg is killing. My factory is running day and night rushing these theatre hats... I am also putting 200,000 bottles of Diane de Poictiers Co.'s Violet de Russie on the market… Court won't let me go South on account of the old Bond Case coming up next month, so I have just branched out into a big business venture and I am spending slathers of money, which I will get back hundred-fold. I am never at fault in a business venture, barring the Hotel which I must take up very shortly to rent or sell… the American Bank Note people are making all my labels with a picture of Diane de Poictiers in colors, they do such fine work. Rent of store is fifteen hundred dollars." Collins was evidently an ambitious entrepreneur – with old legal problems and debts – who had left rural Pennsylvania behind to seek his fortune in the big city. He was apparently not unsuccessful, at least in the perfume line. We could find only one reference to Diane de Poictiers Violet de Russie – in a 1906 issue of an obscure Nurse's magazine, which stated that this was a new 'epoch-making" venture of the Freewood Perfume Company, which was offering their "famous" flower fragrance, with its "particularly dainty odor", in "an attractively labeled glass stoppered bottle, tied with violet ribbons" – without any expense "wasted on fancy boxes." New York newspapers of 1909 make no mention of Collins' grandiose plans, so perhaps the Waldorf area lease was never signed.

Anthropological Papers: Survey of Vegetation in the Navajo Reservoir Basin by Woodbury, Angus M., Stephen D. Durrant and Seville Flowers

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Title: Anthropological Papers: Survey of Vegetation in the Navajo Reservoir Basin
Author: Woodbury, Angus M., Stephen D. Durrant and Seville Flowers
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Description: Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 1961. First printing. Paperback. Very good+. 99 pp. University of Utah Anthropological Papers Number 51 June 1961 part of upper Colorado Series.

(Exhibition catalog): Paintings From Smith Alumnae Collections

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Title: (Exhibition catalog): Paintings From Smith Alumnae Collections
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: Northampton, Massachusetts: Smith College Museum of Art, 1959. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in wrappers. Exhibition catalogue.

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