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We’re currently accepting applications for our 2022 Education Resources Fellowship! Get full details and application instructions here. Continue reading
We’re currently accepting applications for our 2022 Education Resources Fellowship! Get full details and application instructions here. Continue reading
The bookplate from an 1823 copy of The book of fate — the plate alone is worth a look! Continue reading
The cover of E A Wallis Budge’s 1930 Amulets and superstitions. Continue reading
It’s that time of year, folks: time for us to search out a 2022 fellow! The full description and application instructions are below; and, please, share this unrestrainedly! ABOUT US: The Medical Heritage Library, Inc. (MHL) is a collaborative digitization and discovery organization of some of the world’s leading medical libraries committed to providing open access to resources in the history of healthcare and health sciences. The MHL’s goal is to provide the means by… Continue reading
The UCSF Library Archives and Special Collections and Makers Lab are accepting proposals for the third annual UCSF Library Artist in Residence program. The UCSF Library Artist in Residence award, valued at $6,000, will be given annually to one candidate with a degree in Studio Arts or a related field and/or a history of exhibiting artistic work in professional venues. For program background, artist responsibilities and provided support, see Artist in Residence Program. Possible projects can… Continue reading
New to our collections are some items from the American Philosophical Society via the For the Health of the New Nation project. This is one of those items: page proofs for William Cullen’s Practice of Physic. Click on the title of the book above or on the image below to see the page proofs and click here to see editions of Cullen’s work already in the MHL. Continue reading
Every February since 2016, the New York Academy of Medicine has been running #ColorOurCollections, a fun little exercise where institutions around the world contribute coloring pages made from items in their collections. You can see all the coloring books submitted here and you can find our book there or you can grab it right here! Continue reading
–on Instagram! We’re doing a soft open to give ourselves time to get used to the new platform and look around ourselves a bit, but we’d love to see you over there. Do you know cool accounts we should be following? Let us know! Continue reading
The “horoscope of a male child,” from Medical astrology by Heinrich Däath, published in 1907. Continue reading
From Montague Summers’s 1928 The discovery of witches: a study of Master Matthew Hopkins, commonly call’d Witch finder generall. Continue reading