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
Puck (12:309), page 353, cover. By F. Graetz, man seated in wooden chair has connected himself to guns, cannon, knives, charcoal fire, 5000 lb. weight, poison, and dynamite. A note reads: "Dear George, I can not marry you. Carri." Text on page 2: "The luxury of suicide is forbidden under the new penal code...We regard this as rather an interference with the rights of the citizen. If a man wishes to throw his life away, he ought to be permitted to do so. Lives that are thus carelessly disposed of are rarely of much value to the world..." Hansen database #176.
Judge (9:233), back cover. By Zimmerman, citizen tormented, among others, by Dr. Probem presenting a bill for $90, and sellers of adulterated milk and oleo. Several vignettes including oleo, chalk added to milk, and getting a bill from Dr. Probem. Hansen database #33.
Harper's Weekly (29:1510), page 781 in complete issue. Sketch on lower half, with text on page 779 (columns 3-4) "The Pestilence in Montreal." Harris is an important Canadian artist. Hansen database #411.
Harper's Weekly (29:1513), pages 836-837. Upper half page shows injection of Jupille, with article "Pasteur's Latest Discovery." Text continues on page 837, mentions Newark boys en route to Paris and Dr. Billings. Harper's Weekly and Scientific American (page 391) both ran it on the same day. Hansen database #126.
Puck (15:379), page 240, back. By F. Opper, Democratic Party in bed with softening of the brain, case being discussed by three doctors: Dana, Waterson, and S.J.T. Compare follow-up on June 25th. Hansen database #338.