From James W. Roosevelt’s In sickness and in health; a manual of domestic medicine and surgery, hygiene, dietetics, and nursing (1896). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
“The new blood cell will be red of color and round of form.” (9) With these words, Mary Newton Foote Henderson exhorts the readers of her 1904 The Aristocracy of Health; a study of physical culture, our favorite poisons, and a national and international league for the advancement of physical culture to work towards a holistic vision of physical culture. Continue reading
The U.S. Navy’s Medical Department is headed by the Surgeon General and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED). Continue reading
From Transactions of the Phrenological Society (1824). 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 Development of the Rabbit Ovum (1930) from Wellcome Films. As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Medical Center Archives of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell is pleased to become a contributor to the Medical Heritage Library. Continue reading
From the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Secours aux blessés (1864). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Murdered Millions (1897), by George Dowknott, M.D., is a brief treatise relating to Christian medical missions. Continue reading
The Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School has received a $202,900 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the Council on Library Resources (CLIR) to increase access to critical resources currently unavailable to historical research. Continue reading
From Myer Solis-Cohen’s Girl, wife and mother : a guide for women in all important periods of life, beginning with the transition from girlhood to womenhood, and including childbirth and the months preceding and following it : with directions for the care of infants (c. 1911). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
