“Dangerous Marine Life”
Check out this training film from the 1978 U S Naval Health Sciences Education and Training Command! Continue reading
Primary Source Sets
MHL Collections
Reference Shelves
Oh My!
A frisky little number was added to our collection recently: The conjugal directory, or, The joys of hymen: a poem: in three books! Continue reading
Thanks!
We’d like to extend our thanks to everyone who submitted an application for our 2023 fellowship program. All the applications have been forwarded to our fellowship committee who will be reviewing and sending out requests for interviews as soon as they can. If you have any questions in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to ask at medicalheritage@gmail.com. Continue reading
“La Gardienne du Phare”
From Ellwood Hendrick’s 1916 article for the American Red Cross magazine about Winifred Holt. Continue reading
Come Work With Us!
Have you used any of our primary source sets? They’re wonderful introductions to all the resources we have on the Internet Archive and we’d love to have you, as a summer fellow, create new ones for us! Get your application in by April 7 and work with us this summer to create a set on mental health and illness! Continue reading
The Book of Bread
From Owen Simmons’s 1913 The Book of Bread — lots of good stuff in here! I’m a pretty good baker and I’ve never heard of ‘scalded flour’! Continue reading
Deadline Extended!
We’re extending the deadline for applications for our two summer fellowship positions to April 7 2023! We want an Education Resources fellow: “Under the guidance of a member of our governance board, the fellow will develop a curated collection or sets for the MHL website on the topic of mental health and illness. Examples of existing primary source sets can be found on the MHL website: http://www.medicalheritage.org/resource-sets/. These collections will be drawn from the over… Continue reading
Travellers’ Music
I don’t think we have many items in the collection that include music, but William Kitchiner’s 1827 The traveller’s oracle includes seven songs! Continue reading
“The philosophy of sleep”
Perhaps less of a “philosophy” — which implies a systematization — and more of a “description”, Robert Macnish’s 1836 volume is heavily influenced by phrenological thought and full of great anecdotes of dreams and nightmares. Flip through it here or on the item’s page in our collection. Continue reading
Fellowship Applications Open!
We’re looking for two fellows for the summer of 2023: one to help us with planning a conference in the fall and the other to work on creating primary source sets on mental health and illness. Please submit your applications as soon as possible! The window closes on March 27th when we will begin reviewing and interviewing! Continue reading