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Rexall: The modern method of the treatment of disease

Rexall Drug Company warns of the threat of patent medicines and their variability in effectiveness or harm, and advertises their medicines and pills, which it claims are scientifically measured to be effective against certain illnesses and symptoms. The first page includes an image of a female figure dressed as a knight riding a horse, holding out a sword. The last page is an ad for Rexall hair tonic, featuring an image of a woman’s face on the top of the page, with long dark hair flowing down, bordering the ad’s text. There are smaller female figures applying the tonic to the hair, and an image of the Rexall bottle in the bottom left corner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-24

Collier’s The National Weekly

The June 17,1911 edition of Collier’s. The articles “Coming and Going,” “North Dakota,” “Are They Dead?,” and “Guidance,” are marked in a square shape.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-17

The president is indisposed

President Roosevelt leans against a tree and looks at a “fruit cake from the ladies of Colorado” with a slice cut out of it. There are “pills” and “Pepsin” beside him. He says, “Not like Mother used to make!”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-04

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Eugene F. Ware

President Roosevelt suggests Commissioner of Pensions Ware follow the same protocol with Congressman Jacob A. Beidler as he does with other congressmen.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-15

The finishing touch

A young man wearing a robe sits in a chair by a window, reading a book. A young woman nurse is attending to him and an old man, the doctor, has arrived for a check-up. There are medicines on a table in the foreground. Caption: The Nurse — The Doctor has come to take your temperature. / The Convalescent — I suppose it’s all I have left.

Comments and Context

This cartoon’s joke has little to do with a pretty nurse or a handsome patient, as might be assumed from many themes of the day. Rather, “taking” all he has left is a critique on the cost of doctors’ care, evidenced by the account-book on the table in the foreground.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to M. Louise Anderson

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells M. Louise Anderson that Roosevelt has not heard of the term “medical freedom” or of a movement against it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Presley Marion Rixey

Theodore Roosevelt informs Presley Marion Rixey that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has been recovering very slowly. After several days of pain, a medicine administered by Alexander Lambert has offered some relief.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edgar Alexander Mearns

Theodore Roosevelt wonders how much whiskey or brandy he should take for medicinal purposes. He also supposes that Edgar Alexander Mearns will have “small mammal traps and the like.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-20

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Alexander Lambert

President Roosevelt looks forward to seeing Alexander Lambert and will consider the medical man proposition. He envies Lambert’s two caribous and the elk.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-23

Letter from Richard D. Hamilton to Theodore Roosevelt

Richard D. Hamilton claims to have a remedy to prevent and cure seasickness, and asks Theodore Roosevelt for advice regarding if and how he might be able to sell it in New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-24

Letter from George T. Getman to Frank Harper

George T. Getman is sending three more boxes of Getmans Seasick Remedy. He asks Frank Harper to send them to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for her party to use on their return trip.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-06-29

Letter from George T. Getman to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

George T. Getman sends Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt boxes of Getman’s Seasick Remedy, which he assures her will “absolutely prevent” seasickness if she takes it before she starts on a sea journey. In a handwritten note, Roosevelt instructs her secretary to thank Getman.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-06-23

Letter from Ellerton James to Theodore Roosevelt

Ellerton James advises President Roosevelt regarding supplies that he should take on his African safari. James comments on various dried foods, materials for tents and coverings, medicines, and cameras.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-16

Letter from Presley Marion Rixey to Theodore Roosevelt

Rear Admiral Rixey notifies President Roosevelt of the completion of his special assignment, which he found extremely interesting and instructive. He is currently traveling home, and he hopes to speak to Roosevelt about various topics including sanitary conditions and hospitals. Rixey and his wife plan to disembark the steamer at Geneva, Switzerland, and travel to various European medical schools for further research before returning to New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-08