The LOUISiana Digital Library has 22 participating libraries, archives, museums, and other historical organizations contributing material to document the history and culture of Louisiana. The LDL has a wide variety of resources available, including textual documents, photographs, video clips, and medical illustrations. Included in this vast amount of material is a great deal to do with the history of medicine and science, both in Louisiana and elsewhere.
The LDL provides browsers with material already divided into topic headings including Health and Medicine. Each resource is listed with a brief description of contents, contact information for a staffer at the institution in question, and links to any digitized material available online, such as the Aristides Agramonte Yellow Fever Collection (check out MHL resources on yellow fever here) or the Louisiana State University School of Dentistry photographs (check out MHL resources on dentistry here).
You can also search the entire LDL site through a customizable search function. Searches on words like ‘poison,’ ‘public health,’ and ‘sanitation’ turned up thousands of responses in a wide variety of material types, enough to keep a researcher busy for quite some time.
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!