This week, check out original sources on opium use: Click through the pages above or follow this link to read William G. Smith’s An inaugural dissertation on opium embracing its history, chemical analysis and use and abuse as a medicine… (1832). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
I am entering into my third year of graduate study in history at Johns Hopkins. As a graduate student in the early stages of dissertation research, my experience working with the William G. and Miriam P. Hardy Collection has been an interesting and instructive one. Continue reading
From Thomas Annandale’s The malformations, diseases and injuries of the fingers and toes and their surgical treatment (1866). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Press “play” above or follow this link to watch Newport Reel (1958). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that processing of the Erich Lindemann papers is nearing completion. Continue reading
From Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum chemicum britannicum : containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language (1652). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
This week, check out original sources on gunshot wounds: 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 The Both mechanical respirator (195?). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
This week, check out original sources on S. Weir Mitchell: You can click through the pages above or follow this link to read Charles W. Burr’s S. Weir Mitchell, physician, man of science, man of letters, man of affairs (1920). And as always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Frank Polk was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University from 1982 up until his death from a brain tumor in October, 1988 at the age of 46. Continue reading
