Life to Years
Flax, Herman J.
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VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1995
Title page, Escuela Española de Sordomudos ó, Arte para enseñarles á escribir y hablar el idioma español
Spanish sign language
Hervás, Lorenzo
Escuela española de sordomudos, ó, Arte para enseñarles á escribir y hablar el idioma español, by Lorenzo Hervás, 1735-1809 <a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:VCU_ALMA21364416760001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1795
Spanish
El Gimnasio, plate 1
Plate 1 showing exercises using parallel bars.
<em>El Gimnasio : Tratado teórico-práctico de todos los principios y reglas de aplicacion á esta importante parte de la higiene</em> by D. Lopez Gomez. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99105573150001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1873
Enchiridion, card
Image and description of a playing card holder
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1822
English
Enchiridion, list
List of items described in the text that were available for purchase.
Enchiridion, or A hand for the one-handed, by George Webb Derenzy. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99117621120001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
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1822
English
Enchiridion, fork
Image of a combination knife/fork for use by the one-handed.
<em>Enchiridion, or A hand for the one-handed</em>, by George Webb Derenzy. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99117621120001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
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1822
English
Enchiridion, title
Title page and frontispiece
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1822
English
El Gimnasio, plate 2
Plate 2 demonstrating exercises done with 'las argollas ó anillas' (loops or rings).
<em>El Gimnasio : Tratado teórico-práctico de todos los principios y reglas de aplicacion á esta importante parte de la higiene</em> by D. Lopez Gomez. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99105573150001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1873
Spanish
El Gimnasio, Plate 3
Plate 3, illustrating various types of equipment and exercises.
<em>El Gimnasio : Tratado teórico-práctico de todos los principios y reglas de aplicacion á esta importante parte de la higiene</em> by D. Lopez Gomez. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99105573150001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1873
Spanish
El Gimnasio, title page
Title page and photograph of the author
<em>El Gimnasio : Tratado teórico-práctico de todos los principios y reglas de aplicacion á esta importante parte de la higiene</em> by D. Lopez Gomez. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99105573150001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1873
Spanish
Life to Years, cover
Cover image of book by Dr. Herman Flax
<em>Life to Years</em>, by Herman J. Flax. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99112637530001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1995
English
Herman J. Flax, senior picture
Flax's MCV senior picture in the X-Ray, 1940
<a href="http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/ybk/id/12574/rec/27"><em>X-Ray</em>,</a> Medical College of Virginia
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1940
English
De Morbis Acutis et Chronicis
Frontispiece of the book
<em>De Morbis Acutis et Chronicis</em>, by Caelius Aurelianus. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99107987390001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1709
Latin
De Arte Gymnastica, p 89
Depiction of men using medicine balls.
<em>De Arte Gymnastica</em> by Girolamo Mercuriale 1530-1606. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99107971750001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
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1573
Latin
De Arte Gymnastica, p. 164
A depiction of rope dancers using a petaurum.
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1573
Latin
De Arte Gymnastica, p 148
Illustration of rope climbing.
<em>De Arte Gymnastica</em> by Girolamo Mercuriale 1530-1606. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99107971750001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
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1573
Latin
De Arte Gymnastica, p 45
Hand-colored illustration of a Roman bath.
<em>De Arte Gymnastica</em> by Girolamo Mercuriale 1530-1606. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99107971750001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
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1573
Latin
De Arte Gymnastica
Title page, 2nd edition
<em>De Arte Gymnastica</em> by Girolamo Mercuriale 1530-1606. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99107971750001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
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1573
Latin
Herman J. Flax
Photograph from September Songs
<em>September Songs</em>, by Herman J. Flax
VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives, PS3556.L39 S46 1984
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1984
English
<em>Songs of My Sixties</em>
Cover of <em>Songs of my Sixties</em>
<em>Songs of My Sixties</em>, by Herman J. Flax. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99104859410001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
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1987
English
<em>September Songs</em>
Cover of <em>September Songs</em>
<em>September Songs</em>, by Herman J. Flax. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99112637430001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1984
English
<em>Medicina Gymnastica or Every Man his Own Physician, </em>title page
Exercise Therapy
<em>Medicina Gymnastica</em> 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.
<em>Medicina Gymnastica; or, Every man his own physician</em> by Francis Fuller 1670-1706. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99105581180001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
1740
English
<em>Escuela española de sordomudos ó, Arte para enseñarles á escribir y hablar el idioma español</em>
Spanish sign language
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.
<em>Escuela española de sordomudos, ó, Arte para enseñarles á escribir y hablar el idioma español</em>, by Lorenzo Hervás, 1735-1809. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99107967630001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1795
Spanish
<em>De Morbis Acutis et Chronicis,</em> title page
<em>De Morbis Acutis et Chronicis</em>, by Caelius Aurelianus (fl. 5th century) is believed to be based on the Greek originals by Soranus of Ephesus. The 1709 edition in the Flax Collection was edited by Johann Conrad Amman with Theodoor Jansson Almeloveen.
<em>De Morbis Acutis et Chronicis</em>, by Caelius Aurelianus. <a href="https://vcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VCU_INST/hj7ovl/alma99107987390001101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCU Health Sciences Library Special Collections and Archives</a>
VCU Libraries, Health Sciences Library, Special Collections and Archives
1709
Latin