We’re planning ways to get more non-Western materials into our collection, but we do have some already, including five volumes of Kaitai shinsho, an anatomy text from the eighteenth century.
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“The botanic garden” (1825)
One of the many beautiful plates from Benjamin Maund’s 1825 The botanic garden. You can flip through the volume below or see it in our collection on IA!
Thanksgiving in London (circa 1896)
In November 1896, the American Society in London hosted a multi-course Thanksgiving banquet at the Hotel Cecil with Henry Wellcome himself in the chair for the occasion. Check out their menu (with appropriate illustrations!) below.
More Rush(-ing)
You may remember last week I wrote a brief post about my own efforts to track down materials in the MHL related to Benjamin Rush. I’ve spent a little time with the resources I found and, so far, William Cobbett’s 1801 The Rush-light is my favorite.
Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture: “Once You Pop, You Can’t Stop (Bleeding): Aortic Aneurysms and their Management from the 18th to the 21st Century”
Please join us for the next in the series of Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lectures on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, 12:00 noon in the UNC Health Sciences Library, Room 527. Refreshments provided! Our speaker will be Justin Barr, MD, PhD, General Surgery Residency Program, Duke University Medical Center. Continue reading
Our Reading List (#8)
I’m a sucker for book reviews; my “To Be Read” list on my Goodreads account is my longest and it just keeps growing. Here are a few recent reviews that have added onto that list:
- War, Art and Surgery: The work of Henry Tonks & Julia Midgley, edited by Samuel J.M.M Alberti, reviewed by Professor Duncan Geddes
- The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920, by James F. Stark, reviewed by Dr. Anne Hanley
- Blood & Kinship: Matter for Metaphor from Ancient Rome to the Present, by Christopher J. Johnson, Bernhard Jussen, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, reviewed by Myriam Spörri
- Heroic Journeys? Networks of women scientists in the late nineteenth and twentieth century, by Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and Arts, reviewed by Pieter Huistra
- Sigmund Freud – Anna Freud: Correspondence, 1904-1938, edited by Ingeborg Meyer-Palmedo; translated by Nick Somers, reviewed by Hannah S. Decker
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Our Reading List (#7)
We haven’t done a reading whip ’round in awhile so here are some of the things catching our eye this week…
- From the Centre for Medical Humanities, a review of Medical Cultures of the Early Modern Spanish Empire by Dr Elena Burgos-Martínez
- From the Cost of Living blog, a piece by Mary Madden on Manufacturing Fictions: Gothic morality tales.
- An open invitation to join Digital Writing Month!
- Subhadra Das from the UCL Museums and Collections blog on Francis Galton and the history of eugenics at UCL.
- A brief review of Sabine Arnaud’s On Hysteria from the h-madness blog.
- Thinking about doing a digitization project? Be sure to check out the DPLA’s new self-guided curriculum for digitization.
- An interesting article from PLOS One about the Google Books project with particular reference to scientific texts.
- Too late for Halloween but if you’re still in a spooky mood the Guardian’s H-Word blog has some ‘macabre’ scientific relics for you.
- If you’ve been re-reading the Sherlock Holmes stories in preparation for the upcoming Christmas special, this article from the Royal College of Physicians London on the physician’s cane might be good support reading for Hound of the Baskervilles.
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Our Reading List (#6)
Here are a few things that have gotten our reading attention this week:
- How can you make resources accessible for those with disabilities? from the Jisc blog.
- The latest publication from the History of Modern Biomedicine Research group, one of our partners: Human Gene Mapping Workshops, c. 1973-c.1991.
- Newly uploaded from the Royal College of Surgeons, Hermes Trismegistus, The book of quinte essence or the fifth being, that is to say, man’s heaven : a tretice in englisch breuely drawe out of þe book of quintis essencijs in latyn, þat hermys þe prophete and kyng of Egipt, after þe flood of Noe, fadir of philosophris, hadde by reuelacioun of an aungil of god to him sende (1866)
- Tim Hitchcock’s opening post from the Voices of the People Symposium, Sources, Empathy, and Politics in History from Below.
- The Writing Lives project is asking for your input!
- We found this JSTor Workset Browser — according to creator Eric Lease Morgan, “The Browser takes this citations.xml file as input and then: 1) harvests the content, 2) indexes it, 3) does some analysis against the content, 4) creates a few graphs illustrating characteristics of the dataset, and finally 5) generates a browsable “catalog” in the form of an HTML table.”
- Newly uploaded from the Royal College of Physicians of London, James Frazer’s The Golden Bough (the other 11 volumes are available, too!)
- The Centre for Medical Humanities is looking for a reviewer for The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration.
- Medical Advice About Bathing in 1813 from Two Nerdy History Girls.
- If you’re a public historian, the AHA is looking to collect survey data from you.
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Digital Highlights: News for (Alumnae) Nurses
In February of 1907, the Alumnae Association of the School for Nursing at the New York Hospital agreed upon the publication of a newsletter for their alums: “It is hoped that the paper, if continued, may help to keep the members of the association in closer touch with one another…” Eight members were appointed to “gather news.”
This inaugural issue included notes about a fund for sick nurses, and brief notes about alumnae clubs and members: “The new Club rules have been drawn up, and submitted to the nurses for approval. Mrs. Robinson is abroad for an indefinite time.”
As time went on, the newsletter included more content: news about the school, notification of upcoming meetings and events of interest to alumnae, and general pieces about the state of the nursing profession.
Click through the pages below or follow this link to read The Alumnae News.
Digital Highlights: CSI (circa 1905)
Police procedurals — such as the popular CSI series and its spin-offs and imitators — were not the cultural presence in turn of the century America that they are today. The development of the detective story and the crime novel are fascinating topics in and of themselves, but so is the development of “legal medicine” — what we might now call “forensic pathology.”
Frank W. Draper was one of the original practitioners of legal medicine in Massachusetts. He held positions at Harvard University, first in 1877 as a lecturer in legal medicine under Professor Walter Channing and then in 1884 as a professor of the same subject. When the Office of the Massachusetts Medical Examiner was created in 1877 to replace the officer of the coroner, Draper was appointed as the first ME for the Commonwealth.
Draper wrote one of the original North American texts on legal medicine, A text-book of legal medicine in 1905 — as with many professors since his appointment, he had to create the textbook for the classes he taught.
Flip through the pages below or visit A text-book of legal medicine to read Draper’s full text.