We’re still accepting applications for our summer 2020 fellowships and you don’t (necessarily) have to travel to be a fellow! Check out the position descriptions here. Continue reading
We mined through our state medical journals collection to see what contemporary medical journalism had to say about the influenza epidemic of 1918/19. We’ve picked some highlights here but there are plenty more where these came from. Search for ‘influenza’ or ‘flu’ in any volume to see more results! Minnesota Medicine, November 1918 Illinois Medical Journal, October 1918 Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, October 1918 Texas State Journal of Medicine, May 1918… Continue reading
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
We’re still accepting applications for our summer 2020 fellowship and you don’t (necessarily) have to travel to be a fellow! Check out the position descriptions here. Continue reading
A copy of Michael Scot’s Liber phisionomie from around 1508. Continue reading
But still pretty interesting! A 1788 publication addressed to “Sir J. Banks” on the upcoming presidential election of the Royal Society. Continue reading
–in color from 1904! (Just click on the image to see the full volume on the Internet Archive.) Continue reading
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce applications are open to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine, supporting research onsite at the NLM in its historical collections. The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides up to $10,000 to support onsite research in the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine, which span ten centuries, encompass a variety of digital and physical formats, and originate… Continue reading
The New York Academy of Medicine Library is very pleased to announce the launch of the Dr. Robert Matz Hospital Postcard Collection, a pilot digitization project that provides access to 118 hospital postcards from the five boroughs of New York City. Spearheaded by Dr. Robin Naughton, Senior Digital Program Manager, the collection offers a window into the history of hospitals in the New York area as well as some of the visitors to those hospitals.… Continue reading
ABOUT US: The Medical Heritage Library, Inc. 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 which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and to strengthen understanding of the… Continue reading
