Click the image above to go to The Sleep of Death, a “lavish historical dramatisation” of the discovery of the cause of “sleeping sickness.” As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Click the image above to go to “Simple Pleasures,” a short film about the US Smokeless Tobacco Company. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The Center for the History of Medicine recently digitized a remarkable collection of Civil War-era images titled Photographs of surgical cases and specimens. Nearly 150 years after it was first published, this six-volume set provides a sobering look at the state of the art in surgery during and after the war. Continue reading
The University of California, San Francisco’s Legacy Tobacco Documents Library Multimedia Collection contains audiotapes and videotapes related to the advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco. Continue reading
From François Tolet’s Traite’ de la lithotomie, ou, De l’extraction de la pierre, hors de la vessie : enrichy de figures necessaires pour representer la maniére de sonder, les instrumens propres, le malade dans l’operation : la ponction du perinée, & les differentes methodes de tirer la pierre : avec les appareils, les remedes preservatifs du calcul, & les medicamens pour les taillez (1686). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please… Continue reading
Wellcome Film is an online digital collection of moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine owned and now digitized by the Wellcome Library in London. Continue reading
…we’ve been linking some great history of medicine and digital humanities stories such as… Continue reading
From Gordon Holmes’ Science of voice production and voice preservation, for use of speakers and singers (1880). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
At the end of the nineteenth century, concerns were common over the enfeeblement of the human form — often the male human form — particularly of those who lived in cities or worked in factories or offices, those “new” and “unnatural” environments. In 1881, Marc Cook, an office-worker in New York City, wrote The Wilderness Camp, his own personal tale of health revitalized through retreat from the city and return to the country. Continue reading
Courtesy of the good folks at the Internet Archive, we now have our very own search box! Continue reading
