One of the partners in the MHL, Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, is offering the fifth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award for use of the historical library. The historical library “holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets” and offers researchers access to the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Haller, Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell among others.
The 2012-2013 grant of up to $1500 is open to researchers in the United States and Canada and may be used for transportation, housing, food, or photographic reproduction. A .pdf of the application is available (warning: clicking this link will open a .pdf in your browser!) If you need any additional information, you can get in touch with the Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, Melissa Grafe by email at melissa [dot] grafe [at] yale [dot] edu.
You can get a taste of the materials held by the historical library by browsing through some of the hundreds of titles Yale has contributed to the MHL. Subjects include anesthesia, pediatrics, medical geography, and neuroses.
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!