From Our Partners: James Jackson’s Memoir of James Jackson, Jr.

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~This post courtesy Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook, processing assistant at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. (She is also the Project Co-ordinator for the MHL). Center staff are currently working on a new finding aid for the James Jackson papers; Jackson was born October 3, 1777 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Jonathan Jackson (1743-1810) and Hannah Tracy Jackson. Before beginning his medical career, he worked as a clerk for his father who continued to work in the state government after he had been a representative of Massachusetts at the Continental Congress. Jackson taught school at Leicester Academy for a year… Continue reading

From Our Partners: Event: “Remembering the Dead”

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Epidemics are dramatic unfolding of events and are of interest not only to historians and scientists but playwright, novelists, and artists. -Howard Markel, Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 Over 20,600 New Yorkers died in just two months in the fall of 1918 from influenza. Today, in a city dotted with monuments to war dead or shrines to those lost in terrorist attacks, it is rare to find… Continue reading

From Our Partners: “William Osler, Medicine, and Fairy Tales”

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– by Wood Institute travel grantee Ryan Habermeyer* Several years ago, in a daze of dissertation research, I stumbled upon a passing comment by William Osler, pioneer of modern medicine: “To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.” What a curious coupling, fairy tales and medicine. As much as I tried to forget it and press forward with my dissertation I kept returning to that idea. How is pathology a bedfellow to fairy tales?… Continue reading

From Our Partners: Bullitt Club Lectures at UNC

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~Courtesy Dawne Lucas, Special Collections Librarian, Wilson Special Collections Library. We hope you are ready for another exciting semester of Bullitt Club lectures! Information about February’s lecture is below. Please note that this lecture will be held in the Wilson Special Collections Library instead of the Health Sciences Library. Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:00 NOON Wilson Special Collections Library, Room 504 The Fabrica, the Epitome, and Issues of Accessibility in Early Modern Anatomy Michael J. Clark, PhD Candidate, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel… Continue reading

A New Way to Access MHL Images!

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Are you looking for a way to access the millions of images locked within our hundreds of thousands of books? Recently, the Medical Heritage Library Inc. began reaping millions of images from books and journals in our online collection and providing in-depth book level metadata to these images via Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhlimages/. Once you select an image, you have the ability to click a link taking you back to the page in the actual online book… Continue reading

From Our Partners: “From Hysteria to Anorexia Nervosa: An Evolution of Medical Terminology”

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– by Julia Jablonowski Most people in our contemporary society are familiar with anorexia nervosa –more commonly known as just “anorexia.” Yet few know the development of medical thought and the advancement of medical etymologies in the Victorian era that led to the emergence of what we know today as anorexia nervosa. Prior to the pathological conception of anorexia nervosa, its fundamental symptoms, which are grounded in self-inflicted food aversions, were not thought of as an independent disorder until… Continue reading

College of Physicians Receives CLIR Grant

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~Courtesy Beth Lander, College Librarian, Historical Medical Library, College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia has been awarded a $240,000 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) to digitize 150,000 pages of primary sources related to the history of medical education.  This project, titled For the Health of the New Nation: Philadelphia as the Center of American Medical Education, 1746-1868, will digitize, describe, and provide access to lecture tickets, course schedules, theses, dissertations, student notes, faculty lectures notes, commencement… Continue reading

New Digital Collection @ NYAM

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~Courtesy Carrie Levinson, Reference Services and Outreach Librarian The New York Academy of Medicine is pleased to announce the newly digitized William S. Ladd Collection of Prints. This collection consists of 671 prints, primarily portraits, dating from the 17th century through the early 19th century, showcasing many of the formative authors and thinkers of these years. The digitization of this collection also provides an opportunity for researchers, conservators, artists, and the general public to explore early print technology from any web-enabled device.… Continue reading

Rubenstein Library Travel Grant Program

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~Courtesy Rachel Ingold, Curator, History of Medicine Collections Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library 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.  https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/history-of-medicine/grants Research grants of up to $1,500 will be offered to researchers whose work would benefit from access to the historical medical collections at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Our holdings include over 20,000 print… Continue reading