Digital Highlights: Doctor’s Orders

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James Jackson’s 1855 Letters to a Young Physician Just Entering Upon Practice makes for great reading. The volume consists of 27 “letters” of advice from Jackson to the newly qualified medical graduate. Jackson covers a variety of subjects and starts with a lengthy dedication to his  friend, John Collins Warren, enumerating his colleague’s accomplishments, thanking him for his friendship, and giving the reasons for his publication of the work in hand. Continue reading

Cushing/Whitney Travel Award

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One of the partners in the MHL, Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, is offering the fifth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award for use of the historical library. The historical library “holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets” and offers researchers access to the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Haller, Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell among others. Continue reading

Digital Connections: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

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Going through back issues of journals is a first step for many researchers embarking on a new project. Large databases like JSTOR and ProQuest can be very important for this kind of work but they are also expensive and many smaller, non-academic libraries cannot afford them or do not have enough users interested to make a license worth their while. Continue reading

Digital Highlights: The Fascination of Crime

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Narratives of Remarkable Crimes, selected from the German works of Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach and published in 1846 in London, consists of 14 of the trials in Feuerbach’s original 1300 page work chosen and translated by Lady Duff Gordon. She provides a brief overview of the German justice system in her preface, commenting on the role of witnesses, judge, and the system of appeals. She spends only a brief paragraph explaining her reasons for choosing… Continue reading

Digital Connection: LOUISiana Digital Library

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The LOUISiana Digital Library has 22 participating libraries, archives, museums, and other historical organizations contributing material to document the history and culture of Louisiana. The LDL has a wide variety of resources available, including textual documents, photographs, video clips, and medical illustrations. Included in this vast amount of material is a great deal to do with the history of medicine and science, both in Louisiana and elsewhere. Continue reading