Digital Highlights: New Additions to the MHL

One of our partners, the National Library of Medicine, has recently added lots of new titles to the MHL. Here are a few highlights…

…These que sustenta em novembre de 1865 para obter o gráo de doutor em medicina pela Faculdade da Bahia (1865), a dissertation on tetanus.

…a biography of Dr. John Esten Cooke (1856).

…some Remarks on Croup and Its Treatment (1854) from Horace Green.

…a Treatise on the Disease called Milk-sickness, or Trembles by J.J. McIlhenny.

…the harmoniously titled Catechism on Chemistry (1839) by Isaac Haines, adapted to a course of lectures from the University of Pennsylvania.

…Description of a deformed, fragmentary human skull : found in an ancient quarry-cave at Jerusalem : with an attempt to determine, by its configuration alone, the ethnical type to which it belongs (1859) by James A. Meigs, part of the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.

…Considerações sobre os abscessos : these que foi apresentada á Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro, e sustentada em 13 de dezembro de 1841 (1841), another dissertation, this time on abscesses.

…and the self-explanatory …surprising case of Rachel Baker : who prays and preaches in her sleep : with specimens of her extraordinary performances taken down accurately in short hand at the time : and showing the unparalleled powers she possesses to pray, exhort, and answer questions, during her unconscious state : the whole authenticated by the most respectable testimony of living witnesses (1814)!

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