[MEDICINE]. A group of 2 broadsides issued to the public by physicians promoting or defending their practices during the 1840s, comprising:

AHLENFELD, M. To the Public. Cold Stream, Hampshire Co., VA: N.p., March 1840.

9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. letterpress broadside (light soil at old creases); framed to 13 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (not examined out of frame). Dr. Ahlenfeld advertises his credentials noting that he is "prepared to show my Diplomas from Berlin, in Prussia, and from the University of Maryland. I have been a practitioner in Europe, and am now...practising [sic] on this continent." At the foot are testimonials from Horation J. Jamieson, M.D., Prof., &c. and N.R. Smith, M.D., Prof. of Surgery in the University of Maryland. 

[With:] NELSON, Henry. Notice to the public. Henry Nelson, Surgeon and Apothecary. Cookstown, Northern Ireland: Richardson, July 1843.

9 x 7 1/2 in. letterpress broadside (old creases, small chip to lower edge); framed to 17 x 15 in. not examined out of frame). Henry Nelson of Tobermore publicized his credentials as a man of medicine and that he is not "an untaught intruder", noting "his Diploma received from the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow".


Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents