With thanks to Jessica Murphy and Stephanie Krauss of the Center for the History of Medicine, we’re delighted to open up two new ‘shelves’ of curated materials on our site.
You can find a set of titles related to influenza here and a similar one on tuberculosis here.
Keep in mind that these are works in progress and we plan not only to enlarge these collections but create new ones.
It’s the month for bones, yes? Well, all months are for bones, really, but this is particularly the month for bones. These are from John Gordon’s 1818 Engravings of the skeleton of the human body.
Starting up an old series again because I really enjoyed digging out cool images from our collections.
This one is from the Report on the migration of birds in the spring and autumn of 1885, by J A Harvie-Brown, published in 1885 in Edinburgh.
Thanks to all of you who took the time and effort to send up abstracts and queries about our upcoming November conference. We’re starting the review process this week and hope to get back to you in early October.
We want to have you at our November conference! Send us your proposals by September 18th!
Check out our full CfP here and be sure to email us if you have any questions (medicalheritage @ gmail . com)
We want to see you at our November conference and, for that to happen, we need your proposals by September 18th.
Check out our full CfP here and be sure to email us if you have any questions (medicalheritage @ gmail . com)
From the first (1892) meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf:
We’re very excited to hold our first and birthday conference in November and we’d love to have you there, too! See our full CfP here and feel free to email us with any questions (medicalheritage @ gmail . com).
As the summer starts to wind to a close, we’ve still probably got another couple heat spikes coming our way (if you’re not in one already). Check out what the Reverend Dionysius Lardner had to say on heat in 1833:
