Call for Fellowship Applications: Outreach Fellow

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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

#ColorOurCollections 2020

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#ColorOurCollections is back! You can find coloring books from archives, libraries, and special collections around the world, including ours. You can also get ours from this direct link which will take you to a printable .pdf. If you color any of our pages, we’d love to see pictures! Send any photos to medicalheritage@gmail.com and happy coloring! Continue reading

New to the MHL!

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This beautiful fifteenth century manuscript, Notata diligenter visa et p[re]uigili cura auscultata circa tres libros de A[n]ima Arestotilis La[m]berti de monte artiu[m] magistri ac sacre theologie professoris iuxta doctrima[m] insignis et sancti doctoris Thome de Aquino ordinis fratrum predicatorum expliciunt feliciter. Continue reading

ALHHS/MeMA 2019-20 Call for Publication Awards Nominations

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~This post courtesy Polina Ilieva. The Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences (ALHHS)/Medical Museums Association (MeMA) is currently seeking nominations for its three Publication Awards.  Nominations can be from one of three categories:  Monographs published by academic or trade publishers. Articles published in journals, trade or private periodicals of recognized standing. Online resources produced predominantly by ALHHS/MeMA members. All nominations must meet the following criteria:  Published within 3 years of the award date.  Author(s) must be ALHHS/MeMA member(s) in good standing for the last 12 months. … Continue reading

Explore some of the earliest printed medical books in our collection online

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Skeleton from Summula per alphabetum super plurimis remediis (around 1500)

~This post courtesy Melissa Grafe, John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History, Head of the Medical Historical Library at Yale University and President, Medical Heritage Library, Inc. Medical Heritage Library partner the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce that parts of its incunable collection are now available online! The effort to digitize these incunables and make them freely available worldwide was generously funded by the Arcadia Fund. The Medical Historical Library,… Continue reading

A Tale of Two Roberts. Explorations in 19th-Century Medical and Theological Pamphlets

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~We’re delighted to offer this guest post! Lesa Scholl is Head of Kathleen Lumley College, the postgraduate college of the University of Adelaide. I was extremely grateful to the amazing Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook recently when I sent out a desperate Friday afternoon email. This semester I’ve been visiting the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University, where they have a fantastic collection of nineteenth-century manuscripts and rare books. While I was examining Anglican pamphlets and tracts that… Continue reading