Articles were retrieved from microfilm editions of the San Francisco Call, Chronicle, and Bulletin, 1890-1906. The Pacific Medical Journal also was scanned for the period; however, specific articles of interest are noted.

Medicine & Quackery

______, Men’s Specialists - Some Quacks and Their Methods. (Chicago: American Medical Association, 1913).
______, Miscellaneous Nostrums. (Chicago: American Medical Association, 1916).
______, Some Mechanical Cure-Alls. (Chicago: American Medicine Association, 1917).
______, Electro-Therapeutical Catalogue. (Chicago: McIntosh Battery & Optical Co., 1897).
Adams, Samuel Hopkins. The Great American Fraud. (Chicago: American Medical Association, ______1913; reprinted from Collier’s Weekly, 1905).
Aminoff, Michael J. Brown-Séquard: A Visionary of Science. (New York: Raven Press, 1993).
Anderson, Winslow. “The Elixir of Life,” Pacific Medical Journal, Vol. XXXII, 1889.
Armour, Richard. Drug Store Days - My Youth Among the Pills & Potions. (New York: McGraw- ______Hill, 1959).
Armstrong, David and Elizabeth Metzger Armstrong. The Great American Medicine Show - Being ______an Illustrated History of Hucksters, Healers, Health Evangelists, and Heroes from Plymouth ______Rock to the Present. (New York: Prentice Hall, 1991).
Bauer, W.W. Potions, Remedies and Old Wives’ Tales. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969).
Bender, George A. Great Moments in Medicine. (Parke-Davis, ).
Bett, Walter R. Common Diseases. (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954).
Bordley, James and A. McGehee Harvey. Two Centuries of American Medicine, 1776-1976. ______(Philadelphia: W.B. Sunders Co., 1976).
Brieger, Gert H. Medical America in the Nineteenth Century. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, ______1972).
Buret, F. Syphilis in the Middle Ages and in Modern Times. (Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1895).
Camp, John. Magic, Myth and Medicine. (New York: Taplinger, 1973).
Carson, Gerald. One for a Man, Two for a Horse - A Pictorial History, Grave & Comic, of Patent Medicines. (Garden City, N.Y., 1961).
Carson, Gerald. The Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley. (New York: Rinehart & Co., 1960).
Cathell, D.W. The Physician Himself. (Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, 1882).
Chinn, Thomas W. “Herbs, Herb Doctors,” Vignettes in California Medicine. (San Francisco: The ______Book Club of California, 1977).
Cramp, Arthur J. Nostrums and Quackery. (Chicago: American Medical Association, 1921).
Davenport, Horace C. Doctor Dock - Teaching and Learning Medicine at the Turn of the Century. ______(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987).
Fishbein, Morris. Fads and Quackery in Healing. (New York: Covici, Friede, 1932).
Glasscheib, H.S. The March of Medicine. (New York: G.P. Putman’s Sons, 1964).
Glasser, Ronald. The Light in the Skull: An Odyssey of Medical Discovery. (Faber & Faber, 1997).
Gordon, Richard. The Alarming History of Medicine-Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to ______Heart Transplants. (St. Martin’s Press, 1994).
Groh, George W. Gold Fever - Being a True Account, Both Horrifying and Hilarious, of the Art of ______Healing (So-called) During the California Gold Rush. (New York: William Morrow & Co., ______1966).
Haller, John S. “The Glass Leech - Wet and Dry Cupping Practices in the Nineteenth Century,” New York State Journal of Medicine, February 15, 1973.
Haller, John S. American Medicine in Transition, 1840-1910. (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, ______1981).
Haller, John S. Jr. And Robin M. Haller. The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America. ______(Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1974).
Harris, Henry. California’s Medical Story. (Springfield, Ill.: Grabhorn Press, 1932).
Hertzler, Arthur E. The Horse and Buggy Doctor. (New York: Harper & Bros., 1938).
Holbrook, Stewart H. The Golden Age of Quackery. (New York: MacMillan Co., 1959).
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Scientific Papers. (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1897).
Jordan, L.J. Handbook and Descriptive Catalogue of Dr. Jordan’s Museum of Anatomy and ______Natural Science. (San Francisco, ).
Karolevitz, Robert F. Doctors of the Old West. (Seattle, Wash.: Superior Pub. Co., 1967).
King, Lester S. Medical Thinking - A Historical Preface. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University ______Press, 1982).
Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Brought to Bed - Childbearing in America. (New York: Oxford University ______Press, 1986).
Lyman, George D. “The Scalpel Under Three Flags in California,” California Historical Society ______Quarterly, .
Massey, G. Betton. “Electro-Therapeutic Technique in the Treatment of Neurasthenia and Nervous ______Prostration,” Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. XXV, 1895.
McCormick, Michael. “Surgical Appliance” (male chastity device), Patent No. 587,994 (United ______States Patent Office: August 10, 1897).
McDougall, Ruth B. “A Drop of Blood,” San Francisco magazine, March 1970.
McNeal, Violet. Four White Horses and a Brass Band - The Incredible Experiences of a Medicine ______Woman in the Great Medicine Show Days. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1947).
Newman, Art. The Illustrated Treasury of Medical Curiosa. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988).
Nuland, Sherwin B. Doctors: The Biography of Medicine. (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).
Polsky, Edward. Medicine Marches On. (New York: Harper & Bros., 1934).
______Read, J. Marion. A History of the California Academy of Medicine, 1870-1930. (San ______Francisco, 1930).
Remondino, P.C. History of Circumcision. (Philadelphia: F.A.Davis Co., 1900).
Richardson, Robert G. Surgery: Old and New Frontiers. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, ______1968).
Robinson, Edgar Eugene and Paul Carroll Edwards. The Memoirs of Ray Lyman Wilbur, 1875-______1949. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1960).
Robinson, Judith. The Hearts: An American Dynasty. (New York: Avon Books, 1991).
Rockafellar, Nancy and James W. Haviland. Saddlebags to Scanners. (Seattle, Wash.: Washington State Medical Assoc., 1989).
Rothstein, William G. American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins ______University Press, 1972).
Shikes, Robert H. Rocky Mountain Medicine. (Boulder, Colo.: Johnson Books, 1986).
Speck, Reinhard S. “Bubonic Plague in San Francisco,” Vignettes in California Medicine. (San ______Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1977).
Todd, Frank Morton. Eradicating Plague from San Francisco. (San Francisco: Citizens’ Health ______Committee, 1909).
Vaughan, Victor C. A Doctor’s Memories. (Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1926).
Wallnöfer, Heinrich and Anna von Rottauscher. Chinese Folk Medicine. (New York: Bell Pub. Co., ______1965).
Warner, John Harley. The Therapeutic Perspective - Medical Practice, Knowledge, and Identity in America, 1820-1885. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986).
White, James Seeley. The Hedden’s Store Handbook of Proprietary Medicines. (Portland, Ore.: ______Durham & Downey, 1974).
Winton, H.N. “Electro-Therapeutics,” Pacific Medical Journal, Vol. XXXIV, 1891.
Young, James Harvey. American Health Quackery. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992).
Young, James Harvey. The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth- ______Century America. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, Press, 1967).
Young, James Harvey. The Toadstool Millionaires - A Social History of Patent Medicines in ______America Before Federal Regulation. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1961).

California

______. Catalogue of Students and Graduates, 1890. (San Francisco: University of California, ______1890).
______. Official Register of Physicians and Surgeons. (San Francisco: Medical Society of the State ______of California, 1889).
______. Register of the University of California, 1889-90. (Berkeley, Calif.: Regents of the ______University, 1890).
______Asbury, Herbert. The Barbary Coast. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933).
Bacon, Daniel. Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail. (Quicksilver Press, 1997).
Beebe, Lucius and Charles Clegg. San Francisco’s Golden Era. (Berkeley, Calif.: Howell-North, ______1960).
Brechin, Gray. “Body Politics,” San Francisco Focus, March 1986.
Bronson, William. The Earth Shook, The Sky Burned. (New York: Doubleday, 1959).
Cole, Tom. A Short History of San Francisco. (San Francisco: Don’t Call It Frisco Press, 1986).
De Ford, Miriam Allen. They Were San Franciscans. (Caldwell, Ind.: Caxton Printers, 1947).
Dempsey, David. The Triumphs and Trials of Lotta Crabtree. (New York: William Morrow & Co., ______1968).
Dickensheet, Dean W., ed. Great Crimes of San Francisco: 1880-1973. (Sausalito, Calif.: ______Comstock, 1981).
Dickson, Samuel. Tales of San Francisco. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1957).
Dillon, Richard H. The Hatchet Men - The Story of the Tong Wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown. ______(Sausalito, Calif.: Comstock, 1962).
Dobie, Charles Caldwell. San Francisco’s Chinatown. (New York: D.Appleton-Century Co., ______1936).
Dobie, Charles Caldwell. San Francisco: A Pageant. (New York: D.Appleton-Century Co., 1933).
Gentry, Curt. The Madams of San Francisco. (New York: Ballantine, 1964).
Herron, Don. The Literary World of San Francisco and Its Environs. (San Francisco: City Lights ______Books, 1985).
Hoexter, Corinne K. From Canton to California-The Epic of Chinese Immigration. (New York: ______Four Winds Press, 1976).
Holdredge, Helen. Mammy Pleasant. (New York: G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1953).
Holmes, Eugenia Kellogg. Adolph Sutro: A Brief Story of a Brilliant Life. (San Francisco: Press of ______San Francisco Photo Engraving Co., 1895).
Jones, Edwal. Ark of Empire: San Francisco’s Unique Bohemia, 1853-1953. (New York: ______Ballantine, 1972).
Kahn, Judd. Imperial San Francisco: Politics and Planning in an American City, 1897-1906. ______(Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1979).
Kennedy, John Castillo. The Great Earthquake and Fire. (New York: William Morrow & Co., ______1963).
Kroninger, Robert H. Sarah and the Senator. (Berkeley, Calif.: Howell-North, 1964).
Lewis, Oscar and Carroll D. Hall. Bonanza Inn. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939).
Lockwood, Charles. “The Victorian Way of Death,” California Living Magazine, August 12, 1979.
Longstreet, Stephen. The Wilder Shore - A Gala Social History of San Francisco’s Sinners and ______Spenders, 1849-1906. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968).
Mayer, Robert. San Francisco - A Chronological & Documentary History, 1542-1970. (Dobbs ______Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1974).
Muscatine, Doris. Old San Francisco. (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975).
Narell, Irena. Our City: The Jews of San Francisco. (San Diego: Towell North Publishers, Inc., ______1981).
Pomada, Elizabeth and Michael Larsen. The Painted Ladies Revisited-San Francisco’s ______Resplendent Victorians Inside and Out. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1989).
Proctor, William A. Location, Regulation, and Removal of Cemeteries in the City and County of ______San Francisco. (San Francisco: ).
Reedstrom, Ernest Lisle. Historic Dress of the Old West. (New York: Blandford Press, 1986).
Robbins, Millie. Tales of Love and Hate in Old San Francisco. (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, ______1971).
Sinclair, Andrew. Jack: The Biography of Jack London. (New York: Pocket Books, 1977).
Stadtman, Verne A., ed. The Centennial Record of the University of California. (Los Angeles: ______University of California, 1968).
Stanford, Sally. The Lady of the House. (New York: G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1966).
Stanley, Leo L. Men at Their Worst. (New York: D.Appleton-Century, 1940).
Stewart, Robert E. Jr. and Mary Frances Stewart. Adolph Sutro, A Biography. (Berkeley, Calif.: ______Howell-North, 1962).
Thomas, Gordon and Max Morgan Wittts. The San Franicsco Earthquake. (New York: Stein and ______Day,1971).
Tilton, Cecil G. William Chapman Ralston: Courageous Builder. (Boston: Christopher Publishing ______House, 1935).
Watkins, T.H. and R.r. Olmsted. Mirror of the Dream - An Illustrated History of San Franicsco. ______(San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1976).
Wells, Evelyn. Champagne Days of San Francisco. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1947).
Wilson, Carol Green. Chinatown Quest: One Hundred Years of Donaldina Cameron House. (San ______Francisco: California Historical Society, 1974; originally published by Stanford University ______Press, 1931).
Woods, S.D. Lights and Shadows of Life on the Pacific Coast. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., ______1910).

‘American Scene’

Adler, Polly. A House is Not a Home. (New York: Rinehart & Co., 1950).
Blocker, Jr., Jack S. American Temperance Movements-Cycles of Reform. (Boston: Twayne ______Publishers, 1989).
Cashman, Sean Dennis. America in the Gilded Age. (New York: New York University Press, ______1984).
Comstock, Anthony. Frauds Exposed; or, How the People Are Deceived and Robbed, and Youth Corrupted. (Montclair, N.J.: Patterson Smith, 1969; originally published in 1880).
Comstock, Anthony. Traps for the Young. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967; ______originally published in 1883).
Corbett, James J. The Roar of the Crowd. (New York: Arno Press, 1976).
Epstein, Barbara Leslie. The Politics of Domesticity. (Irvington, N.Y.: Wesleyan University Press, ______1981).
Faust, Karl Irving. Campaigning in the Philippines. (San Francisco: Hicks-Hudd Co., 1899).
Furnas, J.C. The Life and Times of the Late Demon Rum. (New York: J.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1965).
Ginger, Ray. Age of Excess: The United States from 1877 to 1914. (New York, The MacMillan ______Co., 1965).
Isenberg, Michael T. John L. Sullivan and His America. (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, ______1988).
Knox, Thomas W. The Underground World: A Mirror of Life Below the Surface. (Hartford, Conn.: ______J.B. Burr Pub. Co., 1880).
McKee, Delber L. Chinese Exclusion versus The Open Door Policy, 1900-1906. (Detroit, Wayne ______State University Press, 1977).
Parshall, Gerald. “The Great Panic of ’93,” U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 2, 1992.
Pratt, Julius W. Expansionists of 1898. (Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1936).
Schlereth, Thomas J. Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876-1915. (San ______Francisco: HarperCollins, 1991).
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier. The Rise of the City, 1878-1898. (New York: MacMillan Co., 1933).
Werner, M.R. Barnum. (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1923).

Other
Pollak, Michael. The Jews of Kaifeng. (Tel Aviv: Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish ______Diaspora, 1984).

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