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
This seemed like an appropriate highlight for a Friday in Women’s History Month: An appeal on behalf of the medical education of women from 1856. The pamphlet — under 20 pages long — is a succinct summing up of the history of women as medical professionals. It only takes a few pages to do this because Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman admitted to a medical college in the United States, had received her degree less than… Continue reading
Dr. Hiram Corson, an 1828 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, made his first diary entry March 31, 1827, while he was still a medical student. His last entry was dated January 31, 1896. He died March 4, 1896. He was well-known nationally and was highly respected by such illuminati as Sir William Osler. The diaries of Dr. Hiram Corson give many insights into the man, the society and times in which he lived, the… Continue reading
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
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch An appeal! from Bolton Infirmary (1929). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
We are happy to announce free access to the complete run of the journal, Growth, Genetics, and Hormones, 1985-2010. The digitization of Growth, Genetics, and Hormones was a joint venture between the Pediatric Endocrine Society and the Endocrine Society. Growth, Genetics, and Hormones was first published in 1985. The quarterly publication was developed, primarily, to provide a close look at current – and often controversial – topics in endocrinology, genetics, and metabolism and their potential clinical… Continue reading
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
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch Atrial septal secundum defect: the physical diagnosis of a common cardiac lesion corrected by surgery (1964). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Dr Christy Henshaw, Digitisation Programme Manager for the Wellcome Library, recently announced that the Library has started to harvest Medical Heritage Library (MHL) content into the Wellcome digital library. Most of the MHL content – both UK-based and US/Canada-based – will be mirrored on the Wellcome Library website. MHL collaborators are thrilled that the MHL content will be even more accessible to its global community of users. Unlike the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA),… Continue reading
Lets have a little color this month with images for every Monday in March 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
