https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/58817/archive/files/7cbf984c189ce2ee0a63d866195791f3.jpg?Expires=1773878400&Signature=uwcQ5i3BRc2VVtrRBZzlN-teSILj5svpexymUXcbrw2%7EoEAf2chgpwYt9YVG80JdiEMe6vt%7Es8Kolk18mJ8FAdfZMk9Z9VvW6l8QR5bOuhLuzSQ4eJ1B9d-ZEJvimLWtPF1KjqIWGwza4iw6ihQp8jKa6Jxvbh%7EWt2At4C6BGb1E3LvwdrEP8coPXPNs8NyvqKiRhbZZH35gfXNBTTnMoOSe979B7-ZBYM6wgog5%7EHeCrc5PNQN8c1sUsv-pW5SddPW3xC-P4B-cJy4G9c64%7EtgZVoEBCDcn1%7EAjSFLOdge2GH3O-vFYigE3lGngzD8BDR4pj07HDj7t75ruuBq63A__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 5e71634e2bebb7493368705627f9b460 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/58817/archive/files/8a076f057b32b11dfa5af6d2c1500a7e.jpg?Expires=1773878400&Signature=v56HkORF3d1cdrauzukRrChQHzIlm7gEUqllAwW3qDNJB5yALJlC4Lb7jrZ6PdnPdeHKrmkcDc2aD0-xzJvWqW-T5y2wYEnu55EPRPodrBNDQmaFFnicK04KLvCJjWYI9yQNM%7EV6l1XjpaHQpqkIK72EEhYRksxDJ9moYUDG%7E1wCcgmKLYhyZh2OVGq0oYcDNPnfHuW4AW0nRG7PkVQAjcQFH%7E-ohMXtjo%7Eybuuw4fKCCb-gsPE6pZni0sBi3fZReMbaa9PkxWfnCJI9vz%7EWasym64C9qla62rxRDCVapKbB8S9Am-6rzETCFLd2wvgUiiBTpNQbKuK1j2ORuPJqLg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 861d2902b1ef506a5af5baacf9d8342a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Guides, rulebooks, domestic aids, "keys", model speeches, and letters, for the protection of Italians and to enable them to become Americans Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Guida alla salute: Il come prevenire le malattie, come curarle, come riguadagnare la salute, estesa descrizione delle cause, sintomi, e trattamento di tutte le malattie del corpo umano con un capitolo sul matrimonio e la vita sessuale [Guide to Health: How to anticipate illnesses, how to treat them, how to regain health, extensive description of the causes, symptoms, and treatment of all illnesses of the human body with a chapter on marriage and sexual life]. New York: Italian American Directory Co., 1904. Description An account of the resource Collins, working in Liverpool, was a physician and quack. An issue of The Medical Standard dated 1896 announces his medical residency in Hicksville, NY. Later, he appears to have been fined $150 for advertising his medical practice without first seeking legal authorization. That a work on health “written exclusively for the Italians in America” by this non-Italian could dare to have a chapter “on matrimony and sexual life,” including discussion of both “sexual indifference” and nymphomania, is itself noteworthy. That the Italian American Directory Co., which otherwise published only "directories" of, by and about the Italian American community, gave its imprimatur to publishing a work of this type also seems noteworthy. Collins published the same or similar works in Spanish, Polish and other languages, thus giving the lie to his having claimed to have published this work "exclusively" for Italians. On the other hand, practicing at the New York Medical Institute on West 34th Street, Professor Collins boasts on the inside front cover the “number of sick people cured in every state” of the U.S. by his medical methods, enumerated state by state. This impressive but dubious sounding boast is consistent with his having been called out in the pages of Il Proletario and La Follia as a quack. Collins is quick to note that of these 20,196 patients, most of whom were permanently “cured,” “only a quarter were actually examined by me personally,” the rest by his original method by correspondence. The “object of this book is to teach to my fellow citizen Italians how to stay in good health, and how to recover it in case of sickness.” The government shut down Collins' medical operation in 1911. My thanks to Stefano Morello, Ph. D., for much of the information about Collins' life-long quackery. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Prof. E.C. Collins, M.D. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Italian American Directory Co. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1904 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 18.5 x 13.5cm; 160 p. Language A language of the resource Italian 1901-1910 English original health Italian American Directory self-help