Press “play” above or follow this link to watch Development of a bird embryo (1934). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The Medical Heritage Library is pleased to announce the addition of titles from the Migel Library of the American Printing House for the Blind. The M.C. Migel Library at the American Printing House for the Blind is one of the largest known collections of materials related to visual impairment in the United States. The library holds over 20,000 items that range in scope from original research to fiction with characters or authors who are visually… Continue reading
From William P.C. Barton’s A flora of North America: illustrated by coloured figures, drawn from nature (Volume 2) (1821). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
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 5/4/2015. Over the next year the Library at the Royal College of Surgeons of England will be preparing almost 2,500 volumes to send to the Wellcome Library for digitisation as part of the UK Medical Heritage Library project. Carried out by a team-in-residence from Internet Archive at its Euston Road… Continue reading
Check out some of the latest additions to our collection! John Wayte, Anti-phrenology: or, Observations to prove the fallacy of a modern doctrine of the human mind, called phrenology (1829) Richard Millar, A letter to the Fever Committee, on their hitherto unsuccessful attempts to restrain typhus contagion in Glasgow; on the present state of the epidemic; and on the new, or additional, means that may be found requisite in order to ensure its abatement, or… Continue reading
From William P.C. Barton’s A flora of North America: illustrated by coloured figures, drawn from nature (Volume 2) (1821). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Police procedurals — such as the popular CSI series and its spin-offs and imitators — were not the cultural presence in turn of the century America that they are today. The development of the detective story and the crime novel are fascinating topics in and of themselves, but so is the development of “legal medicine” — what we might now call “forensic pathology.” Frank W. Draper was one of the original practitioners of legal medicine in… Continue reading
National Nursing Week closed formally yesterday but we figured we could stand another day of celebrating nursing professionals. Check out some of the titles we have on nurses and nursing below! Laurence Humpry’s A manual of nursing, medical and surgical (1896) James Anderson and Ethel F. Lamport’s Notes on medical nursing: from the lectures given to the probationers at the London Hospital (1897) Georgiana J. Saunders’ Modern methods in nursing (1922) Eva Lückes’ Lectures on general nursing: delivered to… Continue reading
From William P.C. Barton’s A flora of North America: illustrated by coloured figures, drawn from nature (Volume 2) (1821). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
…new items were being added to our collection steadily! Here are a few: The Gauzette, Volume 7, No 1 (1974) The labyrinth of animals: including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians (1907) Lectures on clinical psychiatry (1906) Lunacy practice: a practical guide for the certification and detention of persons of unsound mind (1905) Die sexuelle Frage: eine naturwissenschaftliche, psychologische, hygienische und soziologische Studie für Gebildete (1905) Notes on the composition of scientific papers (1904) The varieties of… Continue reading
