Medicine in World War I Online Exhibit

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In commemoration of the centennial of America’s entry into World War I in April 1917 through to the Armistice in November 1918, partner institutions contributing to the Medical Heritage Library have developed this collaborative online exhibit on medicine, surgery, and nursing in the war, with texts and images drawn from the digital corpus of the MHL. A significant amount of professional medical and surgical literature was produced even as the conflict continued to rage, and many personal narratives of… Continue reading

Images from the Library

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From O. Phelps Brown’s The complete herbalist: or, the people their own physicians by the use of nature’s remedies showing the great curative properties of all herbs, gums, balsams, barks, flowers and roots ; how they should be prepared, when and under what influences selected, at what times gathered, and for what diseases administered. Also, separate treatises on fod and drinks ; clothing ; exercise ; the regulation of the passions, life, health, and disease;… Continue reading

The real history behind the look of “Wonder Woman”s Dr. Poison

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~Courtesy Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History The new Wonder Woman movie has a long-standing villain named Dr. Poison who is developing a super poison gas to reverse Germany’s imminent loss of the Great War. Elena Anaya’s character is shown with a porcelain mask over the lower quadrant of the left side of her face… Read the rest of Michael’s post here! Continue reading

Heart’s Ease

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~Courtesy Chrissie Perella and Beth Lander, MLS, College Librarian, Historical Medical Library. What is a recipe?  Is it instructions from which one can prepare a meal, a snack, a dessert?  Or is it how to mix the best cocktail?  Or how to cure acne?  Or how to care for a bee sting?  What other knowledge does one need to properly take advantage of the advice in a recipe?  Recipes found in medical books are no different… Continue reading

New to the MHL!

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In case you haven’t been keeping up, here are some of the latest things to come into our collection: Thousands of Medical Officer of Health reports from all over the UK (19th and 20th centuries) Hygie militaire, ou l’art de guérir aux armées, poëme en quatre chants; suivi des loisirs d’un militaire dans la campagne de 1809 (1819) A blind man’s offering (1850) The Institutions of the Practice of Medicine Delivered in a Course of Lectures by… Continue reading

State Medical Society Journal Digitization Project Wrapping Up

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Our latest digitization project, state medical society journals, is in its last months. We’re working on the final report to the National Endowment for the Humanities (#SavetheNEH, by the way!) and the last few volumes are going into the collection. There’s more than one way you can access the material. There is, of course, the main collection page on the Internet Archive, but we’re also working on a more detailed list by state and we… Continue reading

New York Academy of Medicine Library Launches New Digital Collections Website

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The New York Academy of Medicine Library announced today the launch of its new digital collections and exhibits website, hosted on the open-source framework Islandora and accessible at http://digitalcollections.nyam.org/. The new site makes it easy for the public to access and explore highlights of the Library’s world-class historical collections in the history of medicine and public health. “The Academy is committed to enhancing access to our Library’s world-class collections through digitization,” said Academy President Jo Ivey… Continue reading