A/V from the Library
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch Josephine Arendt. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
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Guest Post: Women and the Tropics
As the summer winds down, I’m sure many of us are packing for a last vacation trip. The woman traveler can pick up some 19th century women’s travel and health tips from Tropical trials. A hand-book for women in the tropics. With a cover featuring a gilded umbrella, palm trees, pyramids, and a list of the many tropical places one could travel in the late 19th century, including China, Burmah [sic], India, Melanesia, and Egypt,… Continue reading
Images from the Library
From Bernhard Siegfried Albinus’ Bernardi Siegfried Albini Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani (1749). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
A/V from the Library
In the spirit of new things added to the collection, try this from the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group! Press “play” below or follow this link to watch an interview with Dugald Cameron, designer of the first medical ultrasound machine. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The MHL Welcomes a New Member: Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina
The Health Sciences Library (HSL) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has recently added the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection to the Medical Heritage Library. The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection contains more than 1000 books, journals, reports, bulletins, minutes, proceedings, and histories covering topics in medicine, public health, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing, dating from 1849 to the present. These materials thoroughly document the development of health care and… Continue reading
Images from the Library
From Joseph Pancoast’s A treatise on operative surgery : comprising a description of the various processes of the art, including all the new operations : exhibiting the state of surgical science in its present advanced condition (1844). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
A/V from the Library
New to the MHL! Click “play” above or follow this link to watch Ashes to Ashes: The Royal College of Physicians and the Smoking Report. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Images from the Library
From John Marshall and J.S. Cuthbert’s Anatomy for artists (1883). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Digital Highlights: Disquisitions on Ancient Medicine
What we might now call “history of medicine,” Richard Millar in 1811 thought of calling “medical archaeology.” His work in the field was inspired by “some singular traits” he felt he had discovered in ancient Greek medicine that he thought had parallels in other “rude, or semibarbarous, tribes…” and he wrote a book to prove it. He starts at the beginning: “This will commence with the earliest trace of tradition or history,…” (29) Flip through… Continue reading
New to the MHL: Anatomy, Myology, and Operative Surgery
The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library has recently added several important volumes in the history of medicine to the Medical Heritage Library. Though the Health Sciences Library participated in MHL’s Sloan Foundation and NEH funded digitization projects, the size of these items precluded them being digitized at that time. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus’ monumental anatomical atlas of 1749, Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani [Plates of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body], is… Continue reading