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The real 'Typhoid Mary'...
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The real 'Typhoid Mary'...

Item # 727371 ·
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE SECTION, April 4, 1915  Pages 3 and 4 contain a wonderful and very detailed article concerning Mary Mallon, also known as "Typhoid Mary". Yes, she was a real person.
The banner head notes: " 'TYPHOID MARY' HAS REAPPEARED" and subhead: "Human Culture Tube, Herself Immune, Spreads the Disease Wherever She Goes." The photograph is of "Dr. George A Soper", an American sanitation engineer who was best known for discovering Mary Mallon and her connection to typhoid fever.

Her story is well documented online, however the brief background is that she was an Irish-born American cook believed to have infected 53 people with typhoid fever, three of whom died, and the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the typhoid fever. Because she persisted in working as a cook, by which she exposed others to the disease, she was twice forcibly quarantined by authorities, eventually for the final two decades of her life. Mallon died after a total of nearly 30 years in isolation.
This report is from when she was forcibly quarantined for the second time.

Also included is the Book Review section which contains a nice review of "Friedrich Nietzsche, His Life and Work", by Maximilian August Mügge (1915 edition).

Present are pages 3-8 of the Magazine Section and what appears to be the entire Book Review Section, 11 by 18 inches, very fragile with minor edge tears, a few loose pages, but no loss. Must be handled with care. Also included is the damaged front leaf of the Magazine Section.

Item from our most recent catalog - #368 - released for July, 2026

(Added to the July, 2026 catalog [#368] after its initial release - only available on-line.)

Category: The 20th Century
Price
$80
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.