Mutter Museum weekend visitors now have access to the historic medical library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which includes this 1797 report on the yellow fever epidemic.
The Mütter Museum hails its “disturbingly informative” collection of old bones, body parts, and other medical curiosities that tend toward the macabre.
The collection is now open to the public for the first time in its 234-year history, included with weekend admission to the Mütter Museum downstairs. Saturday and Sunday marked the library’s official public opening, though a “soft opening” has been ongoing since June. A prime example is the library’s collection of anti-vaccine materials, she said. For any who imagine that attacks on vaccines are a recent phenomenon, the library has ample evidence that they’ve been around since the 19th century.
Among the library’s treasures are more than 400 books printed before 1501, the oldest of which was written in the 13th century. Most are stashed away in the library stacks covering more than 51,000 linear feet of shelf space on seven floors. The public has access only to the library’s reading room, which features a rotating display of highlights.
Visitors also can see a 1915 handbill that describes Apetol, a purported appetite-enhancer, under the headline “It Will Make You Eat!” More than a dozen herbal ingredients are listed, said to achieve their effect through “superior pharmaceutical manipulation.” Among the artifacts is a medical bill from 1800, in which a man was charged three pounds to have his child vaccinated against smallpox. A descendant of that vaccine is being used this year to inoculate people against a related illness: monkeypox.
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