Lessons Learned

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Recently the MHL completed its first progress report for the National Endowment for the Humanities on work done during the first year of our serials digitization project. We’re going to be highlighting some of our finds here during the next couple of weeks. Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Habituation to the Glass

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In the nineteenth century, concern about alcoholism was widespread in the United States. The history of alcoholism — in America or elsewhere — has a much longer history, but the nineteenth century, with the explosion of cheap print materials and faster methods of communication, had generous possibilities for public discussion and sensationalism. Continue reading

Who Are You?

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Recently the MHL completed its first progress report for the National Endowment for the Humanities on work done during the first year of our serials digitization project. We’re going to be highlighting some of our finds here during the next couple of weeks. Lets start with: Audiences It is difficult to quantify the audience of an open and freely available resource with multiple access points. The MHL’s main audience was intended initially to be that of… Continue reading

Images from the Library

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From Nicholas Culpeper’s Culpeper’s complete herbal: with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compuounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c. (1852). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please see our full collection! Continue reading