Digital Highlights: Medical Necrology

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In 1899, David N. Patterson assembled a necrology of physicians “in Lowell and vicinity” for the North Massachusetts Medical Society. A “necrology” is technically nothing more than a list of the dead, usually those from a certain place or time. In this case, Patterson created something more like a group biography or hagiography. Continue reading

Perseus Project Founder Speaks on Roles for Libraries

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On January 17, 2012, Gregory Crane (Harvard BA 79, Phd 85), Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship, Tufts University, and Editor in Chief of the Perseus Project, spoke on “Libraries, Humanists, and Intellectual Life in the 21st Century” at Harvard University to a mixed group of librarians, technologists and faculty. He described a number of opportunities for libraries in a… Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Bathing Medicine

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The history of ‘alternative medicine’ does not begin in the twentieth century. The arguments between allopaths and homeopaths formed part of mainstream medical dialogue in the nineteenth century and alternatives to ‘heroic’ medicine or mainstream medical treatment have always enjoyed a greater or lesser degree of popularity. Today, therapies like acupuncture and medical massage are receiving critical attention; in the nineteenth century in Britain, the Turkish bath enjoyed a similar vogue. Continue reading