Given the current topic on everyone’s mind, we thought we’d look back on the posts we have about influenza and gather them here for some historical context. We have four guest posts from Tom Ewing’s 2018 class on Data in Social Context which used our state medical journals collection as its dataset: Using the State Medical Journals to Study the 1918 Flu Student Case Studies Using Digital Humanities Tools to Study the 1918 Flu Using… Continue reading
A quarantine notice from 1879, probably from Pensacola, Florida, or thereabouts, related to a ban against incoming traffic from New Orleans. Continue reading
We’re already adding items related to the current pandemic. You can see the current list here; since search links from IA are stable, just check back to see new items come in! Continue reading
…quarantine. Check out all our resources related to quarantine here. Continue reading
When looking through the collection for material for the blog this week, I wasn’t expecting to find a 1923 sanitary survey of the town where I went to high school: Continue reading
Even in the middle of a pandemic, we’re still adding new items — here are a few of the most recent: Ensayo sobre una nueva neoplasia del hombre traducida [i.e. producida] por un protozoario y transmisible á los animales: psorospermiosis infectante generalizada (That’s volume one; we have volume two here.) Velpeau’s A treatise on surgical anatomy: or the anatomy of regions, considered in its relations with surgery : illustrated by plates representing the principal regions… Continue reading
We want to remind everyone that all our resources are 100% freely available via the Internet Archive to anyone, anywhere who has an internet connection. We’ve got over 300,000 items available there and over 4 million images harvested from those 300,000 items available via our Flickr site. Our collections span seven centuries and we are eager to support you in your work, particularly at a time when medical history and medical humanities is at the… Continue reading
We’d like to thank everyone who shared our call for applications for our summer 2020 fellows. The application period is now closed and the committee is reviewing applications starting today. Continue reading
~This post courtesy Melissa Grafe. Looking for funds to research at Yale’s Medical Historical Library? Apply for the Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award at the Medical Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. The Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Grant is available to historians, medical practitioners, and other researchers outside of Yale who wish to use the Historical collections of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library. In any given year the award is up… Continue reading
~This post courtesy Chrissie Perella and Beth Lander. We are pleased to announce that over 20,000 pages of lecture notes and related material has been digitized to date as part of “For the Health of the New Nation” grant. “For the Health of the New Nation: Philadelphia as the Center of American Medical Education, 1746-1868” is a two-year project funded by CLIR and organized by the Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL). The… Continue reading
