Police Gazette (39:223), cover illustration of a complete issue. "How the legal spouse of a fashionable physician expressed her disapprobation of the course of treatment her husband subjected his pretty patients to; N. Y. City." He's in fancy dark suit (no medical items present) caressing the chin of a fancy young lady with feathered hat and long train, while his wife is behind him ready to crown him with a skull (cranium and face without lower jaw). This image reconfirms that physicians were not yet distinguished visually by any accoutrements. Related story is on page 7. The Police Gazette was a "sporting paper" for young male readers, with scandal and sensation, but sometimes it commented on medical and scientific items repeated from general newspapers. Also includes half page story on Guiteau on page 6. Hansen database #2814
Ballou's Pictorial (Boston) (11:24), page 376, in a complete issue. Full page image of New York City, unsigned engraving, with reference to page 381, which has two unsigned paragraphs, 6 column inches, with the same title. Text has a rich style, mentions Brady's studio, but no sign visible in the somewhat generic image. Hansen database #4412
Once a Week (6:12), page 11. Article with a drawing of a patient with two doctors, "Dr. Bergmann showing effect of lymph." Article reports that in New York City there are now 116 cases under experimental treatment at 9 hospitals. It lists hospitals and number of cases ranging from 4 to 29. It mentions that five physicians went to Germany for training and returned on December 22 with enough lymph for an estimated 30,000 inoculations. Hansen database #4281
L'Illustration: Journal Universel Hebdomadaire (71:3688), front cover of complete issue. Full page photograph (8.5 x 11 inches) of Jean-Baptiste Jupille in uniform next to a sculpture in the garden of the Pasteur Institute. Sculpture created by Émile Louis Truffot in 1887 depicts Pasteur fighting off a rabid dog. Jupille was the second person Pasteur treated for rabies in 1885 (Joseph Meister was the first) and became an employee of the Pasteur Institute as a guard or concierge. This copy of the issue has 16 pages in front and in back of additional advertising material. A story on the building of the Panama Canal has some unusual early color photographs. Hansen database #4454
Illustrated American (3:23), page 6-9, in complete issue. Four-page article with four great photographs of the New York Pasteur Institute. This is a very early set of photographs as prior magazine images had been engravings, includes unusual photograph of a lab worker dissecting the brain of a rabid dog. Hansen database #4320
The Spirit of the Times (New York), page 15, in complete issue. Rare early report on ether in a popular weekly sports newspaper that covers horse racing, hunting, fishing, cricket, boat racing, other sporting news, literature, stage news, and some general news. Article appears to be credited to the London Athenaeum, but citations at the top are to The Lancet, January 16 and 23, Medical Gazette, January 22, and Medical Times, January 17 and 23. Hansen database #3516
Illustrated American, page 308-310. Article about the Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of Charity by Herbert W. Burdett, with eleven illustrations, apparently first in a series on Institution Life. Illustrations include the reception cot, wards, and "nurse-mothers." Some images are drawn, some appear to be retouched photographs, Hansen database #3958
Le Petit Journal, Supplement Illustre?, page 1. Bright color cover illustration of death in red robe with scythe hovering over hordes fleeing a burning village behind them. There is text on page 58 (not in folder) on this topic as well as a longer article about plague in Europe in the past. (ca. 12 x 16 in.) During the winter of 1910 to 1911, an explosive epidemic of pneumonic plague raged in Manchuria and northern China. At the time, this region was divided into zones of influence, and each zone was controlled by a European power or Japan, all of which feared that plague would compromise their commercial interests. The Manchurian epidemic of 1910 to 1911 undoubtedly stressed an already unstable Chinese government and contributed to undermining the political integrity of the 250-year-old Qing empire, which fell the following autumn. The epidemic began in September 1910 and ended the following April. During the peak 4 months, from October through January, pneumonic plague killed more than 50,000 people. Hansen database #3710
