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Another beautiful incunabula from the Yale collections to start us off in 2020: Continue reading
Another beautiful incunabula from the Yale collections to start us off in 2020: Continue reading
…To keep you in reading over the holidays, we have 17 volumes of Charles Dickens’s Household Words (missing volume 9 and 17)! Continue reading
In the spirit of the season…. Continue reading
A new copy of that timeless classic, the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum! Continue reading
~Post courtesy Rachel Ingold, Curator, History of Medicine Collections, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. The History of Medicine Collections in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University is accepting applications for our travel grant program. Anyone who wishes to use materials from the History of Medicine Collections for historical research is eligible to apply, regardless of academic status. Writers, creative and performing artists, film makers and journalists are… Continue reading
We seem to be having some trouble with links to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library blog. If you come across a broken link that should take you in that direction, never fear: we know about the problem! Continue reading
A lovely fifteenth century work from Lyons, De pestilentia. Continue reading
In November 1896, the American Society in London hosted a multi-course Thanksgiving banquet at the Hotel Cecil with Henry Wellcome himself in the chair for the occasion. Check out their menu (with appropriate illustrations!) below. Continue reading
Our partners at the Center for the History of Medicine are currently accepting applications for two separate fellowships. Following posts are courtesy Jessica Murphy, Public Services Librarian at the Center. Since 2003, the Boston Medical Library (BML) in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine has sponsored annual fellowships supporting research in the history of medicine using Center for the History of Medicine collections. BML Fellowships in the History of Medicine at the Countway provide… Continue reading
With the holidays looming before us, this, from 1877, seems a very pertinent question: Continue reading