Check out these from the 1963 volume of California Medicine. You can see the entire state medical society journals collection here and the complete MHL collection here. Continue reading
We’re going to be highlighting some great one-pagers from our growing state medical journals collection. It seemed appropriate to start on a Monday with…well…a headache medication. From California Medicine (98/2), February 1963. For more, you can check out the full state medical journals collection here and, of course, our full collection here. Continue reading
If you’re going to be at AAHM this week, come join us on Friday at 12:15 in St Croix I for our lunch session: Medicine at the Ground Level. Nancy Tomes from Stony Brook University, Polina Ilieva from UCSF, and Melissa Grafe from Yale will be joining Harvard’s Scott Podolsky to talk about the MHL’s ongoing project to digitize state medical journals. You can check out the collection ahead of time here. We’ll be having… Continue reading
The MHL is very pleased to be participating in the Images and Texts in Medical History workshop at the National Library of Medicine this week. The workshop will bring together historians and librarians interested in applying digital humanities tools to researching the history of medicine. Participants and observers will gather at the National Library of Medicine April 11-13 to explore innovative methods and data sources useful for analyzing images and texts in the field of medical history.… Continue reading
The Archives and Special Collections of the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library of Columbia University have digitized the 1661 German translation of Johann Remelin’s Catoptrum Microcosmicum. Check out the great video made about the process: And read their full post about digitizing a medical pop-up book! You can check out the final result in the MHL here. Continue reading
The Medical Heritage Library is pleased to announce our first new partner of 2016: the Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University. The Osler Library of the History of Medicine at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, opened in 1929 to house the collection of rare medical and other books donated by Sir William Osler (1849-1929), the renowned physician and McGill graduate and professor. Initially comprising 8000 titles listed in the Bibliotheca Osleriana, the… Continue reading
From Alfred Moquin-Tandon’s Le monde de la mer (1866). Continue reading
From John Hill’s The useful family-herbal : or, an account of all those English plants which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience … (1789). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch Body framework (192?). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
I’m a sucker for book reviews; my “To Be Read” list on my Goodreads account is my longest and it just keeps growing. Here are a few recent reviews that have added onto that list: War, Art and Surgery: The work of Henry Tonks & Julia Midgley, edited by Samuel J.M.M Alberti, reviewed by Professor Duncan Geddes The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920, by James F. Stark, reviewed by Dr. Anne Hanley Blood & Kinship:… Continue reading
