Author: Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook

A fifteenth century La cyrurgie of Guglielmo de Saliceto:

Laurence Sterne, best known now as the author of Tristram Shandy, was a prolific author in his day, including this small pamphlet from 1819, a clever piece with plenty of wordplay and allusion commenting on other pamphlets recently published on the subject of grave robbery.

In celebration of our partners at the New York Academy of Medicine and their birthday (yesterday) we went looking for cake!

And this is only the start of All about gateaux from 1910!

Another beautiful incunabula from the Yale collections to start us off in 2020:

…To keep you in reading over the holidays, we have 17 volumes of Charles Dickens’s Household Words (missing volume 9 and 17)!

A new copy of that timeless classic, the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum!

A lovely fifteenth century work from Lyons, De pestilentia.

In November 1896, the American Society in London hosted a multi-course Thanksgiving banquet at the Hotel Cecil with Henry Wellcome himself in the chair for the occasion. Check out their menu (with appropriate illustrations!) below.