From A.S. Leslie and A.E. Shipley’s The grouse in health and in disease : being the popular edition of the report of the Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease (1912). Continue reading
Many of us are looking at an uptick in home baking as the holidays approach and some of us are dusting off recipes that we don’t use all that often: shortbread, cinnamon rolls, croissants, Eccles cakes! Never fear, though, George Read is here with directions for a variety of confectionery items in a “plain and concise manner.” Flip through the pages of The confectioner’s and pastry-cook’s guide below or follow this link to read it online. Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch Tulane University School of Medicine: Department of Psychiatry & Neurology : DVD interviews for departmental oral history : 1. Joseph N. DiGiacomo, M.D. (2004). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From Anne Pratt’s The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails Volume 3 (1873). Continue reading
From Anne Pratt’s The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails Volume 3 (1873). Continue reading
It is with great sorrow that I report that Kathryn Hammond Baker passed away on Tuesday, November 17, after a prolonged illness. As so many of you know, Kathryn was remarkable, deeply invested in the Countway and its audiences as a whole, as well as with the role of libraries and archives more broadly. She had been a beloved teacher at Simmons College, and a Past President of New England Archivists. At the Countway, she… Continue reading
Lots of state medical journals, that’s what’s new around here! Check out: The Illinois Medical Journal (approx. 1899-1960) Journal of the Florida Medical Association (approx. 1914-1972) Delaware Medical Journal (approx. 1964, 2000) California Medicine (approx. 1958-1966) And we also have a ton of new monographs: On the Psychology and Pedagogy of the Blind (1902) Lectures on madness in its medical, legal, and social aspects (1873) An experimental history of the materia medica, or of the natural… Continue reading
From Anne Pratt’s The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails Volume 1 (1873). Continue reading
Now might be about the time in the fall semester when a little remedial something-or-other starts to sound like a pretty good idea — particularly remedial sleep. Or perhaps you could just use the techniques in The remedial uses of hypnotism to convince yourself you have had more sleep and were ready to go all over again! (If you try that and it works, please do let me know.) Page through below or follow this link to… Continue reading
From Anne Pratt’s The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails Volume 1 (1873). Continue reading
