{"id":145,"date":"2013-10-21T10:49:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/?p=145"},"modified":"2014-01-24T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T17:17:14","slug":"comic-strips-and-the-history-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/comic-strips-and-the-history-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic strips and the history of medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoons were typically printed as colour lithographs, or as hand-coloured wood engravings and used to promote over-the-counter medications directly to the public or advertise pharmacies. Often the comics would have an advertisement on the back. When we digitized the collection we were careful to preserve the relationship of the front and back items for context and study.<\/p>\n<p>To find more comic strips\u00a0you can search Osler&#8217;s collection of 2,500 digitized prints by the <a title=\"Olser Library print collection search by Comic subject\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/oslerprints\/search-results.php?s=Cartoons%20and%20comics.\" target=\"_blank\">subject Cartoons &amp; Comics<\/a> .\u00a0To see the real things visit the\u00a0<a title=\"Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/osler\" target=\"_blank\">Osler Library of the History of Medicine\u00a0<\/a>and make an appointment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/oslerprints\/fullrecord.php?ID=3362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-158\" alt=\"French advertisement on the verso of a cartoon entitled &quot;Couche-Huit-Heures&quot;.\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2013\/10\/OPF000986_B-216x300.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French advertisement on the verso of a cartoon entitled &#8220;Couche-Huit-Heures&#8221;. Advertisement for P\u00e9trole Hahn, a product to fight hair loss.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_159\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.mcgill.ca\/oslerprints\/fullrecord.php?ID=3361\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-159\" alt=\"Full-page comic strip with advertisement on verso.\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/files\/2013\/10\/OPF000986-217x300.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Full-page comic strip with advertisement on verso<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartoons were typically printed as colour lithographs, or as hand-coloured wood engravings and used to promote over-the-counter medications directly to the public or advertise pharmacies. Often the comics would have an advertisement on the back. When we digitized the collection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/comic-strips-and-the-history-of-medicine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osler","tag-advertisement","tag-ephemera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/digitization\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}