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Document written by Sadie Heath Cabaniss with examination questions in anatomy and physiology for the students in the Old Dominion Hospital Training School.
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Spreadsheet derived from the index card file of deceased members of the Virginia Dental Association. It includes the dentist's name, college, graduation date, city of practice, date of initial VDA membership, and death date. The original card file…

Plate 1 showing exercises using parallel bars.
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Image and description of a playing card holder

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List of items described in the text that were available for purchase.
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Image of a combination knife/fork for use by the one-handed.
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Title page and frontispiece
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Plate 2 demonstrating exercises done with 'las argollas ó anillas' (loops or rings).
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Plate 3, illustrating various types of equipment and exercises.
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Title page and photograph of the author
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Cover image of book by Dr. Herman Flax
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Flax's MCV senior picture in the X-Ray, 1940

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Frontispiece of the book
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Depiction of men using medicine balls.
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A depiction of rope dancers using a petaurum.
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Illustration of rope climbing.
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Hand-colored illustration of a Roman bath.
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Title page, 2nd edition
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Photograph from September Songs

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Cover of Songs of my Sixties

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Cover of September Songs

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Medicina Gymnastica by Francis Fuller (1670-1706) was the first work in English on the power of exercise in treating disease. The Flax collection contains the 7th edition of this work published in 1740.
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In 1795, Lorenzo Hervás (1735-1809) published this two volume work for deaf mutes. The second volume, Escuela Española De Sordomundos contain several foldouts illustrating the early sign language alphabet, one of which is viewable here.
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