1924 illustration by Albert Reid depicting the spirits of presidential assassins John Wilkes Booth and Charles Julius Guiteau. The tagline "they might have gone free with modern procedure" is a reference to the then-popular practice of determining mental illness via family history, informed by eugenic conceptions of heredity and degeneration. According to this logic, these two assassins would not have been executed in "modern times" because psychiatrists would have identified them as "insane" and therefore incapable of understanding the nature of their actions, becoming institutionalized in asylums instead of executed by the state.
spine, title page, and page 320 of 1591 book 'Medicina Salernitana, Id est Conservandae bonae valetudinis praecepta' [Medicine of Salerno, or The Precepts for Preserving Good Health] edited by Arnold of Villanova, revised by John Curie
front cover, title page, preface letter, and figure 4 of 1881 disseration 'L'électricité statique et l'hystérie : mémoire précédé d'une lettre a M. le professeur Charcot' [Static electricity and hysteria : disseration preceded by a letter to Prof. Charcot] by Docteur A. Arthuis
title page, front endpapers, table of contents, and selected page of 1775 dissertation
'Nymphomania, or, A dissertation concerning the furor uterinus : clearly and methodically explaining the beginning, progress, and different causes of that horrible distemper'
by D.T. de Bienville, M.D., translated by Edward Sloane Wilmot, M.D.
To the right a young woman faints supported by another woman who applies smelling salts. In the background "men mimick poets, popes, or kings". A geometrician draws diagrams and figures on the wall and a woman admires her reflection in a broken mirror
Photograph of Senator Roscoe Conkling, leader of the Stalwart faction of Republicans in the 1880 election. Enemy of Garfield and Blane. 1876 after 1868 negative.
