From Luther Holden, John Langton, and Addinell Hewson’s Holden’s anatomy: a manual of the dissection of the human body (1901). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Click the image above to go to Hollow Smokable Article (1993). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Here are some of the stories, conferences, calls for papers, and other nifty things that have come across our desks and Twitter feed here at the MHL recently… Continue reading
From Pierre Émile Launois and Pierre Roy’s Études biologiques sur les géants (1904). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The Medical Heritage Library is proud to announce the inclusion of over 800 digitized reports from the National Institutes of Health Library, which is located on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Continue reading
From John Butler’s Electricity in Surgery (1882). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Click the image above to go to Plaster Bandage Technique: Part I (and Part II). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
In 2003, the Center for the History of Medicine acquired a collection of about 200 pamphlets, books, and ephemera, ranging in date from the early 19th century to the 1960s, intended to be sold by the disabled. Continue reading
From Cornelis Stalpart van der Wiel’s Observationum rariorum medic. anatomic. chirurgicarum : centuriae posterioris pars prior : auctior longe, atque emendatior (1727). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
“The Society having heard from some of their Correspondents in Germany that what they call a Vegetable Quintessence had been fired by Electricity, I take this Opportunity to acquaint you, that on Friday Evening last I succeeded, after having been disappointed in many Attempts, in setting Spirits of Wine on Fire by that Power.” Continue reading
