Isidor Fischer ephemera. Box 4.

Box file containing items of ephemera and newspaper / magazine cuttings on a variety of subjects. Filed in acid free sleeves. Mostly German and Austrian from the 1920s and 1930s. Includes: illness, inluenza prevention (Paris, 1935), medicine and religion, Asclepius, Hygieia, Imhotep, Jesus Christ as healer, St. Justine, Odilia, Hedwig, St. Sebastian, St. Roch and St. Quirin warding off plague, St. Elizabeth, Antonius der Einfiedler, Lorenzetti, Cosmas and Damian, St. Luke, exorcism, leprosy, torture of St. Agatha, St. Aldedrud, miracle cures, St. Wolfgang, Elygius von Noyon, the king healing (Edmund, Edward the confessor), pregnancy, obstetrics, speculums, caesarian birth (1679), François Mauriceau, Jacopo Robusti, twins, female reproductive system, midwives, anatomical supports, Ethicon sutures, Camp transparent woman, old age, nursing, the good Samaritan, nuns and convalescence. Collected by Isidor Fischer, Viennese gynaecologist and medical historian.