“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)

Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)

Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia and the Ostrich in Ancient and Modern Times (1926)

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)

The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)

Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)

“Those Disturbers of my Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)

Blights of the Bookish: An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)

A Treatise Concerning the Properties and Effects of Coffee (1792)

The Book of Bread (1903)

The Kumatologist: Vaughan Cornish’s Wave Studies (1910–14)

Phantom Bouquets: Two Books on the Art of Skeleton Leaves (1864)

Agnes Giberne’s The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (1898)

James Sowerby’s British Mineralogy (1802–17)

Odd Showers (1870)

Imaging Inscape: The Human Soul (1913)

Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750)