From Henry J. Garrigues’ A text-book of the diseases of women (1896). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Mrs. Priestley’s 1885 lecture Unseen dangers in the home is a tour de force collection of late Victorian concerns about health and hygiene. She starts right off with the dangers of polluted air and moves on through bad water and the dangers of in-house piping among other things. It’s interesting to note that Priestley’s text assumes her audience is one of well-off matrons with disposable income; this is not a lecture designed to help the working poor,… Continue reading
I find one of the benefits of taking a week off — apart from getting to catch up on all your favorite TV and take a chunk out of the ‘to be read’ pile — is coming back to a newsreader full of good stuff. If you need a few good thoughts about art and impermanence to get you going this first week back, try Dan Cohen’s For What It’s Worth: A Review of the… Continue reading
Since the Internet Archive is down for maintenance on this lovely January morning, why not take a stroll through our image back catalogue? We’ve posted over 200 images to date! What’s your favorite? Continue reading
From Emil Harless’ Lehrbuch der plastischen anatomie : enthaltend die gesetze fur organische Bildung und kunstlerische Darstellung der menschlichen Gestalt im allgemeinen und in den einzelnen Situationen (1856-1858). And this is our last post of 2015! The blog and Twitter feed will be shuttered until January 4th. We hope you all have a lovely mid-winter break and we’ll be back with you in 2016! Continue reading
I always enjoy looking through the cookbooks and home manuals in our collection and it always seems as though a holiday is a good time to point out a few. What about the 1903 texts The White House cookbook : a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home; containing cooking, toilet, and household recipes, menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette, care of the sick, health suggestions, facts worth knowing, etc., featuring a recipe for both an English and… Continue reading
Click ‘play’ above or follow this link to watch Four female acrobats (1934). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From Dio Lewis’ The new gymnastics for men, women, and children : with a translation of Prof. Kloss’s Dumbbell instructor and Prof. Schreber’s Pangymnastikon (1862). Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch How Cigarettes Are Made (undated). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The New York Academy of Medicine Library has digitized our collection of cartes de visite, small inexpensive photographs mounted on cards that became popular during the second part of the 19th century, through the Metropolitan New York Library Council’s (METRO) Culture in Transit: Digitizing and Democratizing New York’s Cultural Heritage grant. The grant allows METRO to send a mobile scanning unit to libraries and cultural institutions around the city to digitize small collections and make them available through METRO’s… Continue reading
