{"id":4412,"date":"2015-02-19T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2015-02-19T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T15:23:38","slug":"medicine-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2015\/02\/19\/medicine-for-the-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine for the masses"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ever wondered where to buy\u00a0first aid\u00a0supplies, medical equipment, or prescriptions if you lived in 19th-century Europe? \u00a0Look no further than Guide Medical, <\/em>translated as a Medical Guide<\/span> to aid recovery<\/span> in case of accidents<\/span> or illness :<\/span> instructions on performing<\/span> medical prescriptions.<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 Authored by H. Finck who owned a shop in Geneva, Switzerland this catalog gives us a glimpse into the buying habits of people in\u00a0this time period. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Finck, a German apothocary took over the original shop from a French pharmacist and in a few short years took it from a modest corner store to one of the largest pharmacy’s in Switzerland. \u00a0\"KIC_Image_0007\"<\/a>\u00a0\"KIC_Image_0003\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to having the traditional items such as\u00a0medical supplies and patent medicines Finck also carried perfume, sponges, and even had an American soda-water fountain. \u00a0Apparently the shop was quite modern for the time with lights set in walnut wood and windows that were glass cased so that you could see the whole interior of the shop from the outside. \u00a0A counter ran around the shop on three sides with various dispensers, along with a beautiful glass show case for various types of bottles for purchase. \u00a0Finck was really marketing to both the medical professional and the casual consumer which is probably what made him so successful. This is very evident in the image that describes how one would\u00a0get the appropriate measurement for socks.<\/p>\n

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Guide m\u00e9dical pour faciliter les secours en cas d’accidents ou de maladie : instructions sur l’ex\u00e9cution des prescriptions m\u00e9dicales \/\u00a0par H. Finck, pharmacien.<\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0Gen\u00e8ve : Imprimerie Ch. Zoellner, 1895. \u00a0RC86.8.F49 1895<\/a>\u00a0can be f<\/span><\/span>ound at the Countway Library<\/a> at the Harvard Medical School in Longwood.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Alison Harris, Santo Domingo Project Manager and Joan Thomas, Rare Book Cataloger at Countway for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Ever wondered where to buy\u00a0first aid\u00a0supplies, medical equipment, or prescriptions if you lived in 19th-century Europe? \u00a0Look no further than Guide Medical, translated as a Medical Guide to aid recovery in case of accidents or illness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72745],"tags":[131736,16190,131735,131737,72720,1119],"class_list":["post-4412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-countway-library-harvard-medical-school","tag-19th-century-pharmacy","tag-catalogs","tag-finck","tag-first-aid","tag-julio-mario-santo-domingo-collection","tag-medicine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-19a","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4412\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}