Digital Highlights: “The Hospital Pupil’s Guide Through London”

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The hospital pupil’s guide through London, in a seres [sic] of letters : from a pupil at St. Thomas’s Hospital to his friend in the country ; recommending the best manner of a pupils employing his time, and interspersed with amusing anecdotes relative to the history and oeconomy of hospital’s [sic] (1800) claims to be a collection letters sent from a medical student in London to a friend who is planning to come to London… Continue reading

Guest Post: The censors of the Royal College of Physicians

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If you ever visit the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in London, you may notice a room in the Denys-Lasdun-designed building with an interesting name: the Censors’ Room.  This room is not, as the name may imply, a place for the coordination of censorship, rather it recognises a post in the RCP with a long history. When Thomas Linacre founded the RCP in 1518, the founding charter specified that four physicians known as censors would… Continue reading

Images from the Library

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From Matthew Robinson’s The new family herbal : comprising a description and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants, founded on the works of eminent modern English and American writers on the medical properties of herbs to which is added, the botanic family physician valuable medical receipts and important directions regarding diet , clothing, bathing, air, exercise, &c., &c. (1872) As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading

Digital Highlights: News for (Alumnae) Nurses

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In February of 1907, the Alumnae Association of the School for Nursing at the New York Hospital agreed upon the publication of a newsletter for their alums: “It is hoped that the paper, if continued, may help to keep the members of the association in closer touch with one another…” Eight members were appointed to “gather news.” This inaugural issue included notes about a fund for sick nurses, and brief notes about alumnae clubs and… Continue reading

New to the MHL!

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Our apologies for going unexpectedly AWOL last week — our trip to London was so absorbing, not at lot else got done! We’ll be talking more about our great day-long meeting with the Wellcome Trust in the weeks to come. For now, though, we’d like to point out some of the latest additions to our collection. Just click on the links below to read…. Emile Lossouarn’s La Prevention de la Cecite en Chine (1926). James Rymer’s… Continue reading

Images from the Library

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From Matthew Robinson’s The new family herbal : comprising a description and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants, founded on the works of eminent modern English and American writers on the medical properties of herbs to which is added, the botanic family physician valuable medical receipts and important directions regarding diet , clothing, bathing, air, exercise, &c., &c. (1872) As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading

Images from the Library

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From Matthew Robinson’s The new family herbal : comprising a description and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants, founded on the works of eminent modern English and American writers on the medical properties of herbs to which is added, the botanic family physician valuable medical receipts and important directions regarding diet , clothing, bathing, air, exercise, &c., &c. (1872) As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Coram and the Foundlings

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The Foundling Hospital, founded in 1739 by Captain Thomas Coram in London, is the subject of John Brownlow’s 1858 The history and design of the Foundling Hospital : with a memoir of the founder. At the time of the book’s publication, the Hospital was still on its original site in in Bloomsbury. The Hospital has since transitioned into a charitable foundation, named after the founder of the Hospital: Coram. The Hospital itself has a fascinating history,… Continue reading

From the UKMHL: Digitisation at the Royal College of Physicians, London

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We are grateful for the opportunity to cross-post content from the Wellcome Library’s blog about the UK MHL project! This post originally featured there on 5/13/2015. The library of Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is delighted to be one of the ten UK partner organisations taking part in the UK-Medical Heritage Library (UK-MHL) project. Over next year, working with the Wellcome Library and the Internet Archive, the RCP will be sending books to be digitised and made… Continue reading

Images from the Library

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This month, our Monday images come from Matthew Robinson’s The new family herbal : comprising a description and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants, founded on the works of eminent modern English and American writers on the medical properties of herbs to which is added, the botanic family physician valuable medical receipts and important directions regarding diet , clothing, bathing, air, exercise, &c., &c. (1872) As always, for more from the Medical Heritage… Continue reading