Images from the Library
For today, since it’s supposed to snow here in Boston, why not flip through Rabindranath Tagore’s 1917 Cycle of Spring? Continue reading
For today, since it’s supposed to snow here in Boston, why not flip through Rabindranath Tagore’s 1917 Cycle of Spring? Continue reading
A novel take on spring daffodils… Narcissine : an alkaloid from the bulb of the common daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) (1910). Continue reading
…we offer you The Life Story of a Fowl (1908). Continue reading
Check out all our titles on spas! Including… Continue reading
Don’t all of us start to think a little longingly of a good health resort during the last bouts of cold weather? From An historical and descriptive guide to Leamington Spa (1822). Continue reading
This isn’t quite the type of snow we’re expecting to get lots of in the northeastern US tomorrow — but it’s close. John F. Hall-Edwards’ Carbon dioxide snow (1913). Continue reading
From the June 1894 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Medicine. Continue reading
~Post courtesy Emily Gustainis, Deputy Director, Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine of Harvard Medical School. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, in partnership with its co-sponsors theHarvard Medical School Civilian-Military Collaborative and the Ackerman Program on Medicine & Culture, is pleased to announce the upcoming event World War I: Reflections at the Centennial with speakers James A. Schafer, Ph.D., and Jeffrey S. Reznick,… Continue reading
~Post courtesy Stephen Greenberg, Section Head, Rare Books and Early Manuscripts History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine. You are cordially invited to the next NLM History of Medicine lecture, to be held on Thursday, March 1, from 2:00pm until 3:30pm in the NLM Lister Hill Auditorium, Building 38A, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD. NLM Director Patricia Brennan, RN, PhD will host “A Conversation About Graphic Medicine” with pioneers from this emerging genre… Continue reading
From Mary Francis Baker’s Florida Wild Flowers (1926). Continue reading