The UK MHL Is On Its Way!

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At the end of last July, the Wellcome Library, a MHL partner, announced the creation of the UK MHL project. The project plans to digitize about 15 million pages worth of content from ten partners, including UCL (University College London), the University of Leeds, the University of Glasgow, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, King’s College London and the University of Bristol and the libraries of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians… Continue reading

Digital Highlights: A Clinic Reports

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After Lisa Mix’s post on hospital reports, the series of annual reports from the Payne-Whitney psychiatric clinic caught my eye this week. The report for 1935 is the third annual for the department and is a detailed write-up of clinic activities. As of the end of December 1935, for example, they had 70 in-patients, male and female. The statistics for the year described discharged patients as ‘Recovered,’ ‘Much Improved,’ ‘Improved,’ and ‘Unimproved’ — most patients fell… Continue reading

New to the MHL!

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Here in the US, we’ve just come back from two weeks of much-needed and refreshing vacation — but that doesn’t mean we don’t have new titles for you! Pediatric Surgery and Medicine for Hostile Environments (2013) Der klinische Unterricht in der Psychiatrie; eine Studie (1890) Dangerous trades the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health (1902) Traité de pathologie exotique, clinique et thérapeutique (1910) Arsenical poisoning in beer drinkers (1901) Hints… Continue reading

Images from the Library

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From A.W. Chase’s Dr. Chase’s third, last and complete receipt book and household physician, or, Practical knowledge for the people, from the life-long observations of the author : embracing the choicest, most valuable and entirely new receipts in every department of medicine, mechanics, and househould economy : including a treatise on the diseases of women and children, in fact, the book for the million, with remarks and explanations which adapt it to the every-day wants… Continue reading

Guest Post: What Can We Learn from Hospital Reports?

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Since becoming an MHL contributor in 2013, the Medical Center Archives of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell has been steadily adding materials, funded by a series of “micro-grants” from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Digitization Grant Program. I reported on materials digitized in our first micro-grant in my post here. In subsequent projects, we’ve focused on more specific topical materials. Among materials digitized in our second project were reports from several maternity and children’s hospitals: •… Continue reading