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Louise Adriana Wood writes to President Roosevelt about her husband Leonard Wood’s health issues and the problem of getting good medical care in the Philippines. She also accepts an invitation to stay at Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-10
Several legislators appear as quack physicians trying to cure a large sick man labeled “Protection” with a packet of “Boodle” on his lap. From left are “Hill, Pugh, Vest, Chandler, Brice, Hoar, Peffer, Gorman, [and] McPherson,” and John Sherman. They apply such medications as “Delay Tonic, Concessions to Trusts, Sympathy, Wind, Senatorial Fog, Obstruction Pills, [and] Misleading Talk.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-07-18
A woman appeals to a man holding a cane labeled “Allopath” and topped with a skull who has turned his back on a sick child lying in a bed. On the far side of the bed is another man with papers labeled “Homoeopath” and “Apothecary” extending from a pocket. Caption: Dr. All. O’Path – “Very sorry, madam, if your child must die; but you ought not to have called in a Homœopath first.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-06-13
Print shows a group of men, probably President Garfield’s physicians, exiting Francklyn Cottage where Garfield died. The men hold slips of paper that state “Self Exoneration”. Three men standing on the left hold papers that state “Private Theory, Temperance Ideas, [and] Power of Prayer”. (They may represent physicians that were dismissed when Garfield appeared to be recovering).
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-09-28
Alembert W. Brayton sends President Roosevelt the current issue of the Indiana Medical Journal featuring an account of Roosevelt’s treatment on Long Island, New York, after the Spanish-American war.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-09