Washington, D. C. Ralston Company, 1902. The third step along the Ralston hierarchy, a health and racial hygiene program founded by Webster Edgerly in 1876 to promote a new race of Caucasians filled with health, vitality and personal magnetism. The book includes much on what to eat and drink, how..... More
Washington, D. C. n.p., [1979]. A flyer for a 1979 abortion rights demonstration in Washington, D. C. featuring Hilda Mason of the D. C. City Council and Sue Perry of the National Conference of Black Lawyers as speakers. The protest was meant to draw attention to Congress’ potential cut to..... More
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972. Three articles on the success achieved by Chao Pu-yu and colleagues in using acupuncture to treat deaf-mutes in China. Their research and observation was based on their commitment to Mao's philosophical works and the use of materialist dialectics. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, ii, 35 pp. Small..... More
[New York]: [The Committee for Decent Health Care], [1973]. A bilingual pamphlet issued by the Committee for Decent Health Care on behalf of patients and community members of the Lower East Side who either work or receive care at Gouverneur Hospital. The group demands the end to racist hiring practices..... More
New Jersey: Natural Hygiene Society, [195-?]. A flyer announcing an appearance by Canadian farmer and naturalist, John H. Tobe, who published a popular book on the longevity of the Hunza people: Hunza: Adventures in a Land of Paradise (1960,) after living among them. The event was sponsored by the New..... More
Fremont, California: The Voice for the Unborn, [1979?]. A one-off newspaper published by Voice for the Unborn, a pro-life organization based in Fremont, CA, on best practices for distributing pro-life literature on high school and college campuses. Tabloid format printed in black & burgundy on newsprint, 8 p., photographs. Wilcox..... More
Seattle: Lowman & Hanford, 1906. A work by the vitosophist John Edwin Ayer (1855-1932) on the natural laws of vitosophy as expressed by the senses, temperaments, and functions of the human body. This includes the study of phrenology, human virtues, bad habits, hygiene, food, race, education, physical exercise and reproduction..... More
Chicago: Essanjay Films, ©1950. Sex ed addressed to the sexually ignorant male of 1950. Requisite chapters on male and female sex organs, hygiene, marriage, what to expect on one’s wedding night, pregnancy, abortion, birth control, impotency, venereal disease, menopause, etc. Stapled, illustrated wrappers (8 ½” x 5 ½”), 63 p...... More
Los Angeles: Keep America Committee, 1959. Reprint. The author traces her health problems to a massive conspiracy by Jews to demineralize the food supply in order to mentally and physically destabilize the white race. A bizarre account first published in 1948 by Lyrl Clark van Hyning's "Women's Voice," the organ..... More
Chesapeake, Virginia: National Perspective Institute, 1986. A monography by NPI Resident Scholar Jay Garriss on the AIDS epidemic, in which he argues that the gay rights agenda has distorted the public policy approach to AIDS. His 12-point program for ending the epidemic includes forced sodomy laws, shuttering gay bath houses..... More
[New York?]: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1916. A brief history of Saratoga County's Mount McGregor and its role as a resort and beginning in 1913 as a tuberculosis sanatorium operated by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company on behalf of its employees. Stapled wrappers, 8 pp. Some rubbing and toning to..... More
Johannesburg: S. A. Institute of Race Relations, [ca. 1961]. A study on the feeding habits and customs of urban Africans based on a survey conducted among 600 unskilled workers in Pretoria. The results of the survey found that approx. 70-80% of these workers may be suffering from dietary deficiencies which..... More
Philadelphia: Wm. J. Dornan, Printer, 1889. A seminal medical text that documents the shift in surgical philosophy regarding abdominal trauma at the end of the 19th century. McGraw, a Civil War veteran and founder of the Detroit Medical College, used this work to argue for active surgical intervention over the..... More
[New York?]: n.p., [1950]. A dense Marxist critique of bourgeois race essentialism and the subsequent white chauvinism and racism that distorts science and medical research. The authors views race through an anthropological, serological, and physical lens and "criticize Dobzhansky's genetic definition of race, as presented in Heredity Race and Society..... More
Montevideo: 1948. Insightful biographical information on Doctor Paulina Luisi extracted from Arturo Scarone's 1937 book, Uruguayos Contemporaneos. Stapled wrappers, 16 p., small profile photo of Luisi. Toning to wrappers, else near fine. More
[Findlay, Ohio]: [The Glessner Medicine Co.], [ca. 1910]. An advertising circular for Dr. Drake's (opium-based) German Croup Remedy, an elixir first made by a newspaperman, Leonard Glessner, in his home in 1889. He initially obtained the recipe from a German physician, August Drake, and incorporated in 1905 as the Glessner..... More
Berkeley: Printed by Inkworks, 1989. A poster celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Berkeley Community Health Project, a “community-based, volunteer-run organization dedicated to providing quality health care and health education to all in need, regardless of ability to pay.” Offset lithograph of a polychromatic silkscreen (18” x 27”). Light wear..... More