This new series of short posts from the MHL highlights images from our volumes. This plate is part of Thomas Greenhill’s discussion of the ancient Egyptian process of mummification in the second half of his Nekpokedeia. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Tabloid-style stories have been popular for far longer than what we think of as tabloid journalism. A Narrative of the Seizure & Confinement of Ann Brookhouse from the end of the eighteenth century is just such a piece. Purporting to be the true life narrative of a young female victim of abduction “as related by herself” and “written by a friend.” Continue reading
In a new series on the MHL blog, I’m going to be putting together a semi-regular series on other collections and tools that you might find useful. If you think there’s something I missed — something that should have a home on our “Tools for Digital Research” page, maybe? — please let me know! The email is medicalheritage (one word) at gmail dot com. This week, I want to point out the Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Continue reading
Almost everyone has nightmares. A lucky few, perhaps, have very rare or mild bad dreams; others may have them in such vivid form as to invade the waking world and become a serious problem rather than an occasional disturbance. Still, having one serious nightmare is enough to make you want to avoid having another! John Bond, the author of An essay on the Incubus, or Night-mare, suffered from nightmares so extensively according to his own… Continue reading
In recent weeks, you may have noticed that the comments on the blog have been a little strange. I have been trying different comment settings on this blog in an attempt to encourage as much potential for discussion on our posts as possible. Unfortunately, this has led to an avalanche of spam — as some of you have probably noticed if you noticed the comment totals and clicked through to view any of them! Continue reading
In 1900, the United States had a fair number of physicians — licensed and otherwise — operating within the various states. Still, people living in rural areas or the urban poor could not expect to be able to take their ailment or injury to a practising physician, whether due to location, cost, or some other barrier. To try and fill this gap in some fashion, Doctors Thomas Faulkner, president of the Royal Medical Council in… Continue reading
Over the last couple of months, we’ve been working on a resource list for you here on the website. You can get to it by navigating to the “Tools for Digital Research” page on the navigation bar at the top of the page. Lori Jahnke and I have been putting together a list of tools you can use to analyze text, take notes and organize your research, connect with other researchers, and, of course,… Continue reading
If you happen to have some free time on your hands this summer, why not consider entering the JISC Discovery Programme‘s Open Data Challenge? The aim of the challenge is to use material from one of ten rich data-sets to create a software application which will allow users to discover “treasures” that might otherwise go missed in the mass of data. Entrants can draw upon data-sets from the British Library, the UK’s National Archives, circulation… Continue reading
By 1912, William Harvey had been dead for over 200 years but the life and work of an English physician maintained a persistent interest for historians and physicians since his death in 1657. Harvey had been a practicing physician during the period in England immediately succeeding the death of Queen Elizabeth I; the reigns of James I and his son Charles I were increasingly troubled, culminating in a coup d’etat led by Oliver Cromwell and… Continue reading
In the July 2011 issue, Char Booth of the Library Journal interviews Heather Christenson and Paul Fogel from HathiTrust after starting to wonder where her pre-conceptions about digital libraries like Hathi came from. Continue reading
