The MHL is looking for new partners. Do you have material in your collections related to the history of medicine and the health sciences? Is it already in Internet Archive or do you have it digitally available elsewhere and want to put it in IA? Want to make your material part of a large and heavily used online corpus? Come talk to us! Continue reading
Colorful illustration from 1870 advertisement for Keating’s balsam of horehound: Continue reading
Beautifully colored cover of 1885 Henry’s household companion: Continue reading
A souvenir of the visit of the American Medical Association to Detroit, June 7-10, 1892! Continue reading
Cover of John H Appleton’s 1885 Laboratory handbook: Continue reading
Check out this great pamphlet advertising The Fritz-sonian system which apparently comes in three parts: felt (the fabric), fluid (electro-magnetic), and food (“tonic, alterative, diuretic, and vitalizing!”) Continue reading
The cover of Francisco L Gervile’s 1862 As molestias da pelle curadas : guia para todos que padecem de erupções cutaneas, de empigens, borbulbas, pruridos da pelle, salsugem, herpes purulentos, bolhas, etc., para se curarem radicalmente por um methodo prompto e seguro, resultados de uma pratica medica de cincoenta annos, sempre comprovada pela experiencia: Continue reading
The cover photograph of the eponymous school from an 1892 pamphlet on the Iowa School for the Deaf in Council Bluffs. Continue reading
The dramatic cover of The index to Wood’s Library of standard medical authors (1885): Continue reading
The cover of Albert F Blaisdell’s 1894 The child’s book of health in easy lessons for schools. Continue reading
