Have you used Medical Heritage Library material in a class? Presentation? Article? Website? Just for the heck of it to learn something new? We’d love to hear your story about it and learn a little more about you, too! Please take our brief (only nine questions — when we say brief, we mean it!) survey and tell us a story about how you’ve used our collection! Continue reading
From Horatio G. Kern’s Catalogue of surgical and dental instruments, elastic trusses, syringes, &c. : manufactured by Horatio G. Kern, No. 25 North Sixth Street, above Commerce, Philadelphia (1869). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Lewis Feuchtwanger’s 1858 Fermented Liquors is much more than the subtitle implies: a treatise on brewing, distilling, rectifying, and manufacturing of sugars, wines, spirits, and all known liquors, including cider and vinegar. Also, hundreds of valuable directions in medicine, metallurgy, pyrotechny, and the arts in general. Continue reading
For your mid-week this week, we’ve put together a few videos and podcasts we’ve found interesting over here at the MHL… …from a recent episode of NPR’s On Being, host Krista Tippet interviews yoga teacher Matthew Sanford who has been confined to a wheelchair since an automobile accident at the age of 13. …a TED Talk by Alan Russell on regenerative medicine: …and if you’re more in the mood for something audio-based, try the Guardian Science… Continue reading
Welcome to the 47th edition of the Giant’s Shoulders Blog Carnival! We’re delighted to have this opportunity to showcase the latest and greatest online writing (and talking!) on a variety of topics including 20th century literary figures, astronomy, alchemy, geography, publishing, and letter-writing. In alpha order by blogger’s last name (or first name or blog name if that’s all we could find!), then, and divided only by media type, here is your recommended reading list: Continue reading
From Edward L. Ormerod’s British social wasps, an introduction to their anatomy and physiology, architecture, and general natural history, with illustrations of the different species and their nests (1868). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history as a school of medicine. In 1900, they published a History of Medicine: Syllabus and Specimen Extracts, combining what we would think of now as a schedule of lectures with the primary source documents (in modern terms) to be used and discussed in the class. Continue reading
From Guyot-Daubès’ Curiosités physiologiques : les hommes-phénomènes : force, agilité, adresse : hercules, coureurs, sauteurs, nageurs, plongeurs, gymnastes, équilibristes, disloqués, jongleurs, avaleurs de sabres, tireurs (1885). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
One of our partners, the National Library of Medicine, has recently added lots of new titles to the MHL. Here are a few highlights… Continue reading
Do you blog about science, medicine, technology or their history? Have you submitted a post to the Giant’s Shoulders Blog Carnival? Continue reading
