From Harrison Allen’s On a New Method of Recording the Motions of the Soft Palate (1884). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Table-rapping, table-turning, spirit writing, and other forms of communication with “another world” were common and popular forms of spiritualistic activity in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Some consider that the rapping done by the Fox sisters in the late 1840s as the beginning of the spiritualist movement in the United States. The girls later admitted that their “spirit communication” was fraudulent but by that time — the 1880s — the admission had little effect:… Continue reading
We’re pleased to announce that the Medical Heritage Library collection on the Internet Archive has topped 40,000 items. As of this writing, we are, in fact, over 43,000! Continue reading
From Carl G.W. Vollmer’s Magnetismus und Mesmerismus, oder Physische und geistige Kräfte der Natur (1862). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Click the image above to go to Maternity – a film of Queen Charlotte’s Hospital. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From Joseph A. Long and E.L. Mark’s The Maturation of the Egg of the Mouse (1911). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The English and Hawaiian language editions of Walter Murray Gibson’s Sanitary Instructions for Hawaiians represent interesting milestones in Hawaiian public health. Continue reading
We’ve been doing a little housekeeping on our Tools for Digital Research page. Continue reading
From John Shaw’s On the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine, and bones of the chest, are subject : with an enquiry into the merits of the several modes of practice which have hitherto been followed in the treatment of distortions (1823). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
At the end of our week of a/v, check out this 1993 WSJS Radio Talk Show: Winston – Salem with Jim Bohannon and John Banzhaf discussing tobacco and health. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
