Puck (German), back cover. By F. Opper, translation “Two Young Aesculaps, or the importance of the Beard.” Hardworking student who becomes a Dr. has no patients, while carousing fellow who grows a beard has a full waiting room. He's seen taking a lady...
Puck (30:773), page 332, back cover. By F. Opper, six scenes where the assistant fools the Philosopher by surreptitiously adding whiskey to the elixir. Hansen database #363.
Puck (17:422), page 96, back cover. By Zimmerman, Puck: "The new parks are a good thing, Mr. Grace, but suppose we begin by making 'breathing spaces' of these dirty streets.” Hansen database #344.
Puck (7:165), page 160, back cover. F. Opper, six scenes, analytical chemist is being paid off; “the big four” dancing together: The Grocer, the Doctor, the Undertaker, and the Sexton. Hansen database #307.
Puck (27:683), page 112, back cover. By K., shows Puck offering “Free Trade Elixir” to a politician (Blaine?) who's trying to use a bellows marked “wind” to revive a fainted Columbia wrapped in a ribbon marked South American Trade. Another man uses a ...
Puck (9:234), page 444, back cover. By J.A.W. (Wales), rejuvenated Tilden being dis-interred in cemetery by doctor with bag of medicine bottles (one marked elixir of life); doctor is carrying a stick which is too short for a cane and might be a large ...
Puck (19:477), page 144, back cover. Pun on impressionist art, bottom right mocks Pasteur and rabid dogs, labelling a medicine bottle with name of Pasteur. Hansen database #350.
Puck (17:428), page 192, back cover. By F. Opper, about civil service reform. Since cure is believing in honest government, no medical instruments are shown except for cast-away crutches. Hansen database #346.
Puck (16:393), page 48, back cover. By Gillam, shows the tattooed man lying next to a pool with lily ponds. Beautiful example of the famous Tattooed Man series. Hansen database #341.
Puck (38:974), page 184-185, centerfold of complete issue. By Dalrymple, China is being fed spoons of ultimatum pills by England, Russia, and Japan from international pill box. Hansen database #286.
Puck (German), back cover. By F. Graetz, “A New Variant of an old Anecdote." English version title is "Tit for Tat." Uncle Sam to Bismarck: "If you hit my swine, I'll have a crack at your wine!" On reciprocal boycott of American pork and German wine. ...
Puck (23:581), page 156, back cover. By F. Opper, “Uncle Sam (to Civil Service Reform).--Don't cry, my child, he'll look after you presently. Your brother needs attention more than you do." War Tariff and Civil Service. Hansen database #356.
Puck (9:215), page 124, back cover of complete issue. Greece as Warlike baby watched over by a Turkey with a bottle of "Turkish soothing syrup." Hansen database #317.
Puck (German), back cover. J. A. Wales, with citizens doing work of the Street Cleaning Bureau. The English version is Hansen database #316. Hansen database #315.
Puck (7:168), page 218, back cover. JAW (Wales). Death running toward gang plank, carrying suitcase labelled disease and accidents, wearing coffins as shoes. Copy 1. Issue has no editorial text on this. Hansen database #308.
Puck (9:215), page 114-115, centerfold in complete issue. By Keppler, showing New York City in rags escorted by New York City members of legislature and Rural member of New York state legislature. Skeletons on stoops are labelled diphtheria, smallpox,...
Puck (48:1230), front cover. By Dalrymple, Puck as top-hatted doctor with eye glasses examine head of Olney (who endorsed W J. Bryan) in a (locked) Hopeless Ward for Incurables (! as to word order). Olney is holding a toy jester with Bryan's head. Han...
Puck (15:385), page 336, back. Lower half shows poor family in a garret; upper shows clergyman going to Europe where there are alpine hikes and open-air concerts. Hansen database #340.
Puck (10:252), page 284-285, center. Shows hazards of arctic expeditions, with upper left inset of rich man warming his feet in front of a fire and lower right inset showing a sailor's suffering wife. This issue's cover is Guiteau on pedestal and back...
Untitled medical text in nestaʻlīq script. 463 folios, 26x16 cm., 9 lines per page. Written surface measures 8.5x15 cm. Main text in Arabic, some notes in Persian. The manuscript is difficult to date since the colophon is missing. Old read leather bi...
Maghribī, Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm, active 12th century, author مغربي، أبو سعيد بن إبراهيم، ناشط قرن 12، مؤلف
Published / Created:
23 Ramaḍān, 1021 H [17 November, 1612]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic 3
Image Count:
504
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript on medicine and pharmacology by Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Mutaṭabbib al-Maghribī, a little known physician and pharmacologist who seems to have lived in the 12th century. The name of the author is given as "Abū Saʻīd ibn Ibrāhīm al...
His canon of medicine, followed (with separate half-title and individual paging) by his Kitab al-naja (an abridgment of his philosophical work entitled Kitab al-shifa).
His canon of medicine, followed (with separate half-title and individual paging) by his Kitab al-naja (an abridgment of his philosophical work entitled Kitab al-shifa).
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405 دميري، محمد بن موسى، 1341?-1405
Published / Created:
[17th century?]
Call Number:
Manuscript Arabic S-2
Image Count:
862
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
A zoological encyclopedia listing the names of the different animals, birds and insects arranged alphabetically, with anecdotes, poems and folkloric tales, but the most important part of this work is the description of the medicinal properties of the ...
Alternative Title:
Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrá 880-02 and حياة الحيوان الكبرى 240-02/r
Description:
In Arabic.
Subject (Name):
Damīrī, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, 1341?-1405.
Subject (Topic):
Zoology, Science, Medieval, and Animals in literature
Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʼmin, -1698, author حسىنى، محمد مؤمن، -1698 author
Published / Created:
19 Shaʻbān, 1124 H [21 September, 1712]
Call Number:
Manuscript Persian S-3
Image Count:
240
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Part 4 of Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn "Precious gift of the faithful" (an encyclopedic work on medicine and materia medica) of Muḥammad Muʼmin al-Ḥusaynī al-Tunukābunī (d. 1698), a prominent physician in Azerbaijan, originally composed for the Ṣafavid ...
Alternative Title:
Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn. Selections 880-02 and تحفة المؤمنين. Selections 240-02/r
