this calendar is good for another month or so….
Due to my general distaste for getting tasered, I have been avoiding the UCLA library. However, I found this odd calendar among their online collections. It was made by a chemical company 1899 and intended for physicians. Coincidentally, the dates match up with 2006. Here is the library’s description:
“The Antikamnia (”Opposed to Pain”) Chemical Company of St. Louis, Missouri produced several calendars (1897-1901) illiustrated with “Skeleton Sketches”–chromolithographed series based on watercolors by the local physician-artist Louis Crucius. The limited edition calendars were mailed to physicians who provided business cards or letterhead correspondence as evidence of their medical standing. Antikamnia was a proprietary product consisting of acetanalid (antifebrin) combined with sodium bicarbonate, citric acid and caffeine.
The Liebeskind Collection recently acquired a copy of the calendar for 1899, which matches 2006’s calendar day-for-day.”
Also, check out some more of their online medical exhibits here to learn about things like bloodletting, and be glad that today’s healthcare system is so much less absurd.
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you might also like this fabulous collection of historical anatomical illustrations from the Fisher Rare Book Library. some of them are quite gory!
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm