The Medical Heritage Library blog — right here! — and Twitter — right there! — will be on hiatus (mostly) from December 21st, 2012, to January 2, 2013. Our Facebook page will be lively as usual, covering the birthdays of Louis Pasteur and Vesalius among other things. Have a wonderful holiday wherever you are and whatever you’re doing and we will be back on our usual schedule in January! Continue reading
Have you used the Medical Heritage Library to inform your research? Have you created an interesting class project based on one of our digitized items? If so, we’d like to hear from you! Continue reading
From Moritz Borochardt’s Osteoplastischer verschluss grosser bruchpforten (1898). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The rise of pediatrics as a specialty in the United States was in part a response to the devastating infant and child mortality due to unsanitary living conditions, contaminated milk, and inadequate and crowded housing, among many other problems. Continue reading
We’re still having a great time on Twitter talking to digital humanists, historians, students, and just plain interested folks from all around the world. Here are a few of our latest followers and followed. For the whole list, check out our page on Twitter.com. Continue reading
From Frederic A. Lucas and the American Museum of Natural History’s joint Animals of the Past (1922). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Click on the image above to go to Viceroy and Lucky Strike Commercials. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From John Rennie’s Studies in Parasitology and General Zoology (1923). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
As city physician of Zurich, part of Jakob Rüff’s [or Jacob Rueff] (1500-58) responsibilities included the regulation of public midwives and their duties. In 1554, he issued a practical manual intended primarily for midwives, but which also addressed surgeons, elite women, and scholars. Two editions were released that year: one in Latin (De Conceptu et Generatione Homini) and one in German (Ein schön lustig Trostbüchle). Continue reading
Here are some of the latest titles going into the MHL collection from the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University… Continue reading
