The MHL Welcomes the BIU Santé!

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~This post courtesy Solenne Coutagne, manager of digital projects at BIU Santé. Since October 2017, the Medical Heritage Library has a new contributor, the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Santé (abbreviated BIU Santé). The BIU Santé (Paris) is the library of reference in the field of health in France. From its two Parisian sites (one site covering pharmacy, the other medicine and dentistry), it welcomes medical, pharmacy and odontology students, as well as health professionals (doctors, nurses, dentists,… Continue reading

Images from the Library

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It’s a grey day here in Boston on this first posting Monday of 2018, so I thought to brighten it up a bit with one of my favorite herbals. This is from an 1852 reprint of Culpeper’s complete herbal : with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compuounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c, a work originally… Continue reading

Introducing the Mahoning County Medical Society Bulletin

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~This post courtesy Cassie Nespor, Curator, Maag Library University Archives and Special Collections at Youngstown State University The Melnick Medical Museum at Youngstown State University is a small medical history museum that focuses on preserving and promoting the medical history of the Mahoning Valley. In addition to preserving tools, documents, and photographs, the museum has a complete collection of the monthly bulletin published by the county medical society starting in 1931 and continuing (quarterly) today. The scope… Continue reading

Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Travel Grant

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~Courtesy Rachel Ingold, Curator, History of Medicine Collections at the 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.  http://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… Continue reading