Picturing Medical Progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . a web site to supplement the book. |
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Twenty two full-color plates are found in Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio, along with 108 black-and-white figures. For the book's five black-and-white figures that were originally issued in color in the 19th century, this webpage provides readers with a color photograph of each below . At the bottom of the page you will find a list of the 19th-century images reproduced among the book's color plates. New images that further illustrate the book's arguments are being added on another page. Click for new images. |
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Picturing Medical Progress, page 60, figure 26. F. Opper, “The Pasteur Boom-High Times for Hydrophobists,” Puck 18:459 (December 23, 1885), back cover (p.272). Bert Hansen Collection, New York City. |
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Picturing Medical Progress, page 64, figure 28. “Pasteur Group,” 1886 advertising card of the Eden Musée, a popular New York wax museum and performance venue on West 23rd Street. Collection of Bert Hansen, New York City. |
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Picturing Medical Progress, page 84, figure 33. Louis Dalrymple, “It Beats Brown-Sequard--Tanner's Infallible Elixir of Life for Pension-Grabbers Only,” Puck 26:651 (August 28, 1889), center spread, pp. 8-9. Bert Hansen Collection, New York City. |
The following images are reproduced in color in the printed edition of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio.
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Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes by Bert Hansen is published by Rutgers University Press. |
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