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large and fragrant. Benefit was that it helped with headaches and insomnia if smelled, a poultice for leprosy and black infections of the skin. It however dulls the senses but this can be remedied with ivy berries.

This is the title page of the book Medical, Chirugical and Anatomical Cases and Experiments, and provides information about book.

This page shows a stain that is believed to be blood.

This plate shows a peasant boy without a leg.

East Facade

This image shows the book cover of A History of British Birds

Image of the title page of the journal showing the publication information as well the author and name.

The book was published in New York

Images that show the uses of the Arctic Searching Expedition journal from the 18th-19th century.

The first image is of the hill that resides next to the rapids on Bear Lake River. It gives an image of what the explorers saw when they approached…

Phineas Taylor Barnum was a man gifted in multiple professions such as business, show, author, publisher, philanthropist, and politics for a short period of time. He is known for many things but relating to Tufts he is known for bringing the…

This copy of A History of British Birds from the Tisch Library Special Collections was a gift of Alumnus Dorothy Swenson from the class of 1918. This book was presumably her personal copy as there are slight markings on pages and there seems to be…