From Plymmon S. Hayes’ Electricity and the Methods of Its Employment in Removing Superfluous Hair and Other Facial Blemishes (1880). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Manuals of behavior, etiquette, deportment, and home economics are common publications even today. The authors of the 1880 Home and Health and Home Economics would probably have a very hard time recognizing the relationship between their publication and, say, Netiquette. Continue reading
The Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé (BIU Santé) in Paris, the largest medical library in France with important history of medicine collections and programs, is connecting its users to the Medical Heritage Library by harvesting MHL’s metadata from Internet Archive to allow searching of its content. Continue reading
From Evans and Wormull’s Illustrated catalogue of surgical instruments, appliances, apparatus, and utensils, veterinary instruments, cutlery [etc.] (1876). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Medical mysteries are a popular genre — or subgenre, depending on how you classify it! The details of Napoleon’s poisoning, the exact violence used on the Romanovs or Rasputin, or the “Black Dahlia” murder are historical narratives that still get readers. Alongside these large-scale stories, though, there are smaller puzzles in the history of medicine and science. Continue reading
Included in portion of Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library anesthesia collection uploaded to the MHL, is an intriguing selection of materials regarding mesmerism in medicine, or the act of putting patients in a hypnotic state before a medical procedure and forgoing the use of anesthesia. Continue reading
From William Beebe’s The Bird, Its Form and Function (1906). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
In 1877, in England, Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, who would become notorious for refusing to take a religious oath to take his seat in Parliament in 1880, were prosecuted for publishing and distributing a book on birth control. In 1847, in Michigan, Dr. Z.J. Brown published The Lady’s Own Book, or, Female Safeguard; the title goes on to specify that Dr. Brown intends talking about “Generation, Sterility, Impotency, Female Complaints, the Diseases of Infants… Continue reading
Have you checked out what the MHL’s latest additions are? There are a couple of ways you can see what’s new to our collection. Continue reading
From Felix Lagrange’s Fractures of the Orbit and Injuries to the Eye in War (1918). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
