From Probadas flores : romanas de famosos & doctos varones compuestas para salud reparo d’los cuerpos humanos & ge[n]tilezas de hombres de palacio & de cria[n]ça tra[n]sladadas de le[n]gua ytaliana en nuestra española. Nueuame[n]te impressas corregidas: y emendadas con additiones (undated). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
“The abuse of the habit of kissing is injurious to the complexion.” (86) This somewhat baffling statement is part of the survey of the “The Face” in My Lady’s Dressing-Room, a 1892 translation of a French volume by the Baronne Staffe on personal care and beauty for women. Harriet Hubbard Ayer writes in her introduction that she has “translated and adapted [the original French] for the women of America.” (iii) Continue reading
Here are some of the news stories that have come across our desks at the MHL recently… Continue reading
From Brinton and Napheys’ The Laws of Health in Relation to the Human Form (1870). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
In an earlier post on this blog, we talked about the English attempts to locate Sir John Franklin, unsuccessful searcher after the Northwest Passage. Franklin left England in 1845 with two ships, the Erebus and Terror, on his second attempt to locate the Passage, one of the rocs’ eggs of nineteenth century navigation. The second voyage resulted in a worse disaster than the first — Franklin and some of his men had staggered back overland from the… Continue reading
Wondering how our collection is looking lately? Well, we’ve been adding lots of material and we have over 28,000 items for your research! We’ll be making some more specific announcements about these new additions in the near future but, for the minute, here’s a great quick overview of what we’re up to: Continue reading
From Edouard Fournier’s Histoire des Enseignes de Paris (1884). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
In 1899, Joseph Ernest De Becker published an expose of the geisha quarter of the Japanese capital of Tokyo — then named Yedo — called the yoshiwara. De Becker ended up with a tome of over 500 pages, detailing the history, architecture, and customs of the quarter and including several beautiful color prints and many illustrations in black and white. Continue reading
If you’re looking for a way to get involved in a digital humanities project, DHCommons might be just the website you’re looking for. Continue reading
From the Ernst Leitz Firm’s Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus (1896). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
