From Augusto Righi’s Die Optik der elektrischen Schwingungen : Experimental-Untersuchungen über elektromagnetische Analoga zu den wichtigsten Erscheinungen der Optik (1898). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Among the titles mentioned in our post on Wednesday was A Collection of Cases Illustrating the Restorative and Sanative Properties of Swaim’s Panacea, an early nineteenth century production of William Swaim. Continue reading
Here are some selected titles that are new to the MHL collection: Continue reading
From Alfred Braun and Isidore Friesner’s The labyrinth: An Aid to the Study of Inflammations of the Internal Ear (1913). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Welcome to summer! It came in with a genuine heatwave here in the Northeast, but heat exhaustion and sunburn aren’t the only ailments prevalent during the summer; Dr. James C. Wilson of Philadelphia wrote a whole book on the subject called (cheerfully enough!) The Summer and Its Diseases. Continue reading
From Richard R. Madden’s Phantasmata: or, Illusions and fanaticisms of Protean forms, productive of great evils (1857). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
In 1896, William Andrews published The doctor; in history, literature, folklore, etc. Andrews assembled 20 chapters written by a variety of authors, including at least one woman (Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks although, of course, the name may be a pseudonym). Continue reading
For your mid-week, here are some of the stories that have come across our desks recently here at the MHL… Continue reading
From the Ralston Health Club’s Companion book of complete membership in the Ralston Health Club : in seventeen departments ; being a complete study of the natural causes and the natural cures of disease, without medicines or apparatus of any kind (1895). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
In current health and medical news, “obesity” is a much-used term — the current state of fright over the weight status of the “average” American would seem to be a relatively new issue being linked to everything from children’s inability to pay attention in school to the rise of Type II diabetes in adults. But the MHL collections include plenty of older material that evinces an extremely modern concern with weight, weight-related health issues, and… Continue reading
