Event: Heberden Society Lecture

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~Post courtesy Nicole Milano, Head, Medical Center Archives, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. For those in the New York City area, please join us on November 21st at 5:00 pm in the Uris Faculty Room (A-126) for the Heberden Society history of medicine lecture series! Dr. Jeffrey S. Reznick will be presenting “So Comes the Sacred Work: Disabled Soldiers and the Humanitarianism of John Galsworthy during the Great War” at Weill Cornell Medicine (1300 York Avenue, New York,… Continue reading

Fun with Images

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We’re preparing our first ever annual report for the MHL, Inc. and I’ve been spending some time finding and editing images. I’ve always liked the look of page collages so I’ve been playing around seeing what I can make up using pages from our most downloaded volumes. Stay tuned for the report itself! Continue reading

UCSF Archives & Special Collections Artist in Residence

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~This post courtesy Polina Ilieva, Archivist, UCSF Library & Special Collections. The UCSF Library Archives and Special Collections and the Makers Lab are piloting a one year artist-in-residence program. The UCSF Library Artist in Residence award, valued at $6,000, will be given annually to one candidate with a degree in Studio Arts or a related field and/or a history of exhibiting artistic work in professional venues. The goal of this program is to promote health… Continue reading

Event: History of the Health Sciences Lecture

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~Post courtesy Stephen Novak, Head, Archives & Special Collections, Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University. Taking Doctors’ Histories: Thirty Years of Interviews with VP&S Alumni When: Wednesday, November 13: Lecture at 6pm followed by a reception & book signing Where: Conference Room 103-A, the Knowledge Center at the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library Hammer Building, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, 701 West 168th St. at Ft. Washington Ave. Free and open to the… Continue reading

Event: Bullitt History of Medicine Club Lecture

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~Post courtesy Dawne Lucas, Technical Services Archivist, Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. Please join us for our next Bullitt History of Medicine Club lecture on October 15! Tuesday, October 15, 2019  12:00 NOON-1:00 PM  Bondurant 2025 (light lunch provided) Artificial Hearts: A Controversial Medical Technology and Its Sensational Patient Cases from Haskell Karp to Dick Cheney Shelley McKellar, PhD, Hannah Professor in the History of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London,… Continue reading

Rush on Fever

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Apart from his pasting by William Cobbett, Rush is perhaps best known for his studies of the yellow fever epidemics that swept Philadelphia at the end of the eighteenth century. We have many volumes of Rush’s medical writings available in our collection but I thought this one, written only a year after the major outbreak of 1793, merited a highlight. Continue reading