Digital Highlights: South for Health

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“Sick people have but a single wish–that they may get well…” William Francis Hutchinson of Rhode Island starts his Under the Southern Cross: a guide to the sanitariums and other charming places in the West Indies and Spanish Main with a clear indication of his intended direction and audience: having benefited himself from travel in southern hemisphere, he intends to provide guidance for others. The title page provides Hutchinson a boost by adding, after his name, a… Continue reading

Digital Highlights: “Plain Home Talk”

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Edward B. Foote’s Plain home talk about the human system, published in 1870, is one of the large number of nineteenth century home advice manuals. Such manuals usually covered a wide variety of topics, potentially including not only medical advice, but also notes on home brewing, child-rearing, animal husbandry, and cooking. Plain home talk doesn’t include any of these topics, but does not focus on disease and curatives either. Foote has an axe to grind on… Continue reading

MHL Partner Wellcome Library Announces Institutions in UK MHL Project

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  The Wellcome Library, an MHL principal contributor, announced in March of 2014 a project designed in partnership with Jisc and Research Libraries UK  and now with support from the Higher Education Funding Council for England that will digitize over 30,000 nineteenth century rare books to form the core of a UK Medical Heritage Library (UK MHL). MHL and UK MHL content will be copied and shared across the two repositories. Yesterday the Wellcome Library and Jisc announced… Continue reading