HSLS Exhibits

10 items

• A brief rule to guide the common-people of New England by Thomas Thacher
  
  facsimile of the 1677 broadside
• Iagttagelser, anstillede under Maeslinge-Epidemien paa Faroerne i Aaret 1846
  
  Title page for typed translation of Observations made during the epidemic of measles on the Faroe Islands in the year 1846
• map showing Faroe Islands
  
  color map showing North Atlantic Ocean and surrounding countries
• Measles quarantine sign, c1920
  
  bright orange printed sign declaring the presence of measles and its contagiousness. Pennsylvania Department of Health officers listed on bottom: E.G. Carper and Edward Martin.
• Opera Universa by Thomas Sydenham
  
  Title page of Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem
• Peter Panum (1820-1885)
  
  black and white portrait of Peter Panum
• Rhazes's Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles
  
  Title page of report by Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Rhazes, c900AD
• Rubeola vulgaris - Measles
  
  plate 20, color illustration of measles
• The Prevention of Measles by John McVail
  
  Lane Lectures at Cooper Medical College compiled as The Prevention of Infectious Diseases
• Thomas Sydenham
  
  portrait of Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)