In honor of #NationalPoetryDay (which was yesterday), this collection of poetry from physician Mark Akenside (1721-1770) seemed appropriate for this Wednesday.
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Author: Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook
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In honor of the first day of spring…
From Shirley Hibberd and and F. Edward Hulme’s Familiar garden flowers (1879).
From Fugitive Leaves: “I Love the Flu”
~Guest post courtesy of Emily T.H. Redman, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she teaches history of science.
I love the flu. Continue reading
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From Richard Owens’ The principal forms of the skeleton and of the teeth (1854).
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From Anne Pratt’s Wild flowers Volume I (1893).
#ColorOurCollections–
—all in one place in our #ColorOurCollections2017 .pdf coloring book. We’d love to see pictures of any of our images you color up — you can email them to us at medicalheritage@gmail.org or tag us on Twitter @MedicalHeritage.
The Roles of Physicians in 19th Century Polar Exploration
Please join the New York Academy of Medicine on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 6:30PM-7:30PM for a talk on physicians and polar exploration. Continue reading
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From Philip S. Wales’ Mechanical therapeutics : a practical treatise on surgical apparatus, appliances, and elementary operations (1867).
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From Thomas Martyn and Frederick Polydore Nodder’s Flora rustica: exhibiting … figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry Volume I (1791).