In honor of having reached the last stage of our state medical journals digitization project, every day this week will feature a different image from a different journal. You can see all the journals here! Today’s is from the 1957 Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society. Continue reading
In honor of having reached the last stage of our state medical journals digitization project, every day this week will feature a different image from a different journal. You can see all the journals here! Today’s image is from the 1979 Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia. Continue reading
In honor of having reached the last stage of our state medical journals digitization project, every day this week will feature a different image from a different journal. You can see all the journals here! Today’s is from the 1966 Journal of the Florida Medical Association. Continue reading
In honor of having reached the last stage of our state medical journals digitization project, every day this week will feature a different image from a different journal. You can see all the journals here! Today’s is from the 1989 Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association. Continue reading
In honor of having reached the last stage of our state medical journals digitization project, every day this week will feature a different image from a different journal. You can see all the journals here! Today’s is from the 1905 Carolina medical journal. Continue reading
From Wisconsin Medical Journal (1959). Continue reading
The New York Academy of Medicine is working with the Museum of the City of New York and Wellcome Collection on an exhibition based around epidemic disease in NYC for September 2018. “Germ City: Microbes, Migration, and the Metropolis” will use specific sites of disease outbreaks, and responses to contagious disease, to explore New York City’s public health history. Artifacts with a New York connection are of particular interest, as are artifacts that reflect individual stories… Continue reading
In honor of the lunar landing which took place this week in 1969, we’ve dug out some goodies on the moon from our collection. The distances of the moon, the planets, and the sun, deduced theoretically (1886) Observations on the influence of the moon on climate, and the animal economy : with a proper method of treating diseases, when under the power of that luminary (1798) An appendix to my new system of fire and… Continue reading
From Wisconsin Medical Journal (1979). (The “obesity epidemic,” not to mention body-shaming women, has deep roots!) Continue reading
~This post courtesy Stephen Greenberg, Head, Rare Books & Early Manuscripts, History of Medicine Division. You are cordially invited to a public symposium to mark the recent publication of Images of America: US National Library of Medicine, and the simultaneous availability via NLM Digital Collections of the complete book at: https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ImagesofAmericaNLM and original versions of the 170+ images which appear in the book in black and white: https://go.usa.gov/xNfnw Learn more about this new, publicly-available publication here: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/illustrated-history-nlm-published-2017.html. The symposium will… Continue reading
