Please join us from 11-5 (US EST) on November 13th for a celebration and exploration of medical history through the lens of our collections. The conference is free and open to all comers. Keep an eye here to see abstracts and bios for our speakers. If you have any questions, please email us: medicalheritage at gmail dot com. Continue reading
This one’s from Dr Miles’ candy book (1900), full of great suggestions if you’re feeling sugar-deprived this year and have some time on your hands! Continue reading
With thanks to Jessica Murphy and Stephanie Krauss of the Center for the History of Medicine, we’re delighted to open up two new ‘shelves’ of curated materials on our site. You can find a set of titles related to influenza here and a similar one on tuberculosis here. Keep in mind that these are works in progress and we plan not only to enlarge these collections but create new ones. Continue reading
It’s the month for bones, yes? Well, all months are for bones, really, but this is particularly the month for bones. These are from John Gordon’s 1818 Engravings of the skeleton of the human body. Continue reading
This prize was established in 1956 by Ralph and Jo Grimes of the Old Hickory Bookshop, Brinklow, MD, in memory of Murray Gottlieb, a New York antiquarian book dealer. Since 2010, this award has been sponsored by the MLA History of the Health Sciences Section. In 2016 it was renamed to honor longtime MLA member Erich Meyerhoff, AHIP, FMLA. Meyerhoff was a legendary figure in medical librarianship with a great devotion to the history of the… Continue reading
Starting up an old series again because I really enjoyed digging out cool images from our collections. This one is from the Report on the migration of birds in the spring and autumn of 1885, by J A Harvie-Brown, published in 1885 in Edinburgh. Continue reading
Thanks to all of you who took the time and effort to send up abstracts and queries about our upcoming November conference. We’re starting the review process this week and hope to get back to you in early October. Continue reading
We want to have you at our November conference! Send us your proposals by September 18th! Check out our full CfP here and be sure to email us if you have any questions (medicalheritage @ gmail . com) Continue reading
We want to see you at our November conference and, for that to happen, we need your proposals by September 18th. Check out our full CfP here and be sure to email us if you have any questions (medicalheritage @ gmail . com) Continue reading
