We had a wonderful time at the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences and American Association for the History of Medicine conferences in New Haven, Connecticut, last week. If you were there, we hope you did, too! In case you happened to miss them, here are a few highlights from our time… Brandy Schillace (of the Daily Dose) was kind enough to Storify the Tweets from ALHHS. Check out Morbid Anatomy‘s Youtube… Continue reading
Spring flowers for May! 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
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a digital curation collaborative committed to free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Currently comprised of 25 libraries and special collections in North America and the United Kingdom, the MHL holds more than 75,000 digitized monographs, journals, videos, audio recordings, and other cultural heritage objects. We are always seeking new collaborators and users! Search the MHL Full Text MHL Search: http://mhl.countway.harvard.edu/search/ MHLbookworm: https://593b7163.ngrok.com/ Catalog only: https://archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary… Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch MBA Recruitment: Philip Morris & the World’s Best Brands ’95. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital resource on the history of medicine and health developed by an international consortium of cultural heritage repositories, has received funding in the amount of $275,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its proposal “Medicine at Ground Level: State Medical Societies, State Medical Journals, and the Development of American Medicine and Society.“ Additional funding has been provided by the Harvard Library. The project, led by the Countway… Continue reading
From Frank E. Beddard’s Animal coloration : an account of the principal facts and theories relating to the colours and markings of animals (1892). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
According to the posthumous biography written by Edith Ellis (wife of sexologist Havelock Ellis), James Hinton was born in 1822, in Reading, England, outside of London. During his career as a physician, Hinton wrote widely on a variety of subjects, medical, physiological, and ethical. Among his many publications was The Mystery of Pain: A Book for the Sorrowful in 1880. Hinton made an appeal for learning from unavoidable pain that was firmly rooted in a Christian understanding… Continue reading
Press “play” above or follow this link to view Freedom to Advertise (1983). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From Frank E. Beddard’s Animal coloration : an account of the principal facts and theories relating to the colours and markings of animals (1892). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
A Quarter of a Century with the Free Hospital for Women is a small picture book published in 1900, not long after the hospital had finished construction of its grand, new facility by a pond in Brookline, Massachusetts. The volume, held in the rare books collection at Harvard Medical School, Center for the History of Medicine, was recently digitized by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Archives and made available online via the Medical Heritage Library. It will… Continue reading
