Our partners have been busily adding all sorts of wonderful things to our collection, including lots more MS and handwritten materials. Among the latest additions are fourteen volumes of handwritten notes on lectures given by Eli Ives, William Tully, both Yale School of Medicine professors, as well as others only identified by their initials. You can see all fourteen volumes in our collections here. You can view all fourteen volumes of notes in our collections… Continue reading
~This post courtesy Joan Ilacqua, Archivist for Diversity and Inclusion, Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Harvard Medical School. We would like to cordially invite you to our upcoming Women in Medicine Legacy Fellow’s lecture, given by Carla Bittel, PhD, our current fellow working at the Countway Library. Her lecture, “Measure of Power? Gender, Phrenology and 19th Century Cultures of Medicine” will take place at the Countway Library… Continue reading
If you’re attending ALHHS/AAHM in Columbus this year, keep an eye out for MHL goodies: we’ve got stickers and bookmarks (try the NLM table) and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter because our president, Melissa Grafe, has control of the account for the event! Continue reading
You have until next Tuesday April 30th to apply for our 2019 education and outreach fellowship. See all the details and how to apply! Continue reading
Check out this beautiful bound manuscript, written on vellum, with red and blue lettering; first initial in colors and gold. It ncludes some descriptive material by Dr. Ignaz Schwarz of Vienna, antiquarian bookseller from whom Dr. Cushing purchased the manuscript in 1936. Continue reading
Medical Heritage Library, Inc.Summer 2019 ABOUT US: The Medical Heritage Library, Inc. (MHL) is a collaborative digitization and discovery organization committed to providing open access to history of medicine and health resources. We aspire to be a visible, research-driven history of medicine and health community that serves a broad, interdisciplinary constituency. Our goal is to make high-quality content available online free of charge and to simplify and centralize the discovery of these resources. DESCRIPTION: The… Continue reading
If you’re looking to improve or start your garden this year, Tusser redivivus: being part of Mr. Thomas Tusser’s Five hundred points of husbandry; directing what corn, grass, & c. is proper to be sown; what trees to be planted; how land is to be improved; with what ever is fit to be done for the benefit of the farmer in every month of the year may be just the book you’re looking for! Continue reading
~Post courtesy Melissa Grafe. Looking for funds to research at Yale’s Medical Historical Library? The Medical Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its twelfth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award. The Medical Historical Library, located in New Haven, Connecticut, holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets. Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle,… Continue reading
~Courtesy Dawne Lucas, Special Collections Librarian, Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Join us on Tuesday, April 16 at 12:00 p.m. for our last Bullitt History of Medicine Club lecture of the Spring 2019 semester. The lecture will take place in the Health Sciences Library, Room 527. Sandwiches will be provided. Dr. Kurt Gilliland will present “Skeletons in our Closet: Anatomical Eponyms.” While many eponyms are no longer… Continue reading
Did you know you can get a RSS feed from the MHL on the Internet Archive? Put this in your favorite reader and never miss another upload! Our latest uploads include a manuscript from Galen, Nine Tracts from Jean Gerson in 1456, and a fifteenth century medical dictionary. Our partners are adding new material all the time, so be sure you check in regularly! Continue reading
