Our Reading List (#5)

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Here’s a few of the things that are getting our reading attention this week… After we reTweeted Midwives on Horseback from @NYAMHistory, Shane Landrum (@cliotropic) sent us a Storify on midwives and birth registration in Texas. The Jisc sent out an invitation to tender for a new project based on the UK-MHL: Visualising Medical History. The Guardian newspaper asks how we should illustrate mental health. The Center for the History of Medicine (one of the MHL’s principal contributors… Continue reading

Mount Sinai Archives Digitize “Journal”

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The Mount Sinai Archives of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has been fortunate the last two years to receive funding from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) to have the Internet Archive (IA) digitize items from our collections and then link them to the Medical Heritage Library.  Of special note, as a part of our recent grant, we have digitized The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine, initially known as the Journal… Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Bell’s Art

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Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842) is probably best known for his work in the human nervous system. He was one of the first to work out the detailed ramifications of human nerves and their myriad connections and interconnections. His work proved to be foundational in the field of neuroscience and resulted in the naming of at least one condition after him, Bell’s Palsy, a form of temporary facial paralysis. Bell also had interest in the arts… Continue reading

New to the MHL!

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Last week we announced the official opening of over 3,000 digitized volumes of historical medical journals. Here are some highlights of what else is new in our collection: THE HISTORY OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN WORLD WAR II Volume 1: A Narrative and Pictorial Volume (1953) Laws, Regulations And Instructions Relating To The Care Of The Insane (1946) Internationale Beiträge zur inneren Medicin: Ernst von Leyden zur Feier seines 70… Continue reading

Images from the Library

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From Jacob Bigelow’s American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings .. (1817) As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading

Browse over 3,000 digitized volumes of historical medical journals!

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Over the past two years, we have posted a few updates on the MHL’s collaborative project to digitize significant American medical journals, primarily dating from 1797 to 1923. This project, “Expanding the Medical Heritage Library”, was generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (grant # PW‐51014‐12) and included MHL partners The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Columbia University Libraries, Harvard’s Countway Library, and Yale’s Cushing/Whitney Library. We’re proud to say that the project has… Continue reading