Excerpt from Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue and Price List, 1900: Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Etc Apple. Midseason; extremely large; has the general appearance of an apple. Rich, reddish purple; flesh firm, pale red, with rich, high flavor. Tree vigorous and productive. One of the best of shippers. Chalco. A cross of Prunus Simonz' and Burbank. The fruit, which ripens just before the Burbank, is large, flat, like a tomato, reddish purple sweet, firm, fragrant, with yellow flesh and small seed. - burbank. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

By the late nineteenth century, advances in medical knowledge, technology and pharmaceuticals led to the development of a thriving commercial industry. The medical trade catalogue became one of the most important means of promoting the latest tools and techniques to practitioners. Drawing on over 400 catalogues produced between 1870 and 1914, Jones presents a study of the changing nature of medical professionalism. She examines the use of the catalogue in connecting the previously separate worlds of medicine and commerce and discusses its importance to the study of print history more widely.