Category: Digital Highlights

Avis sur la continuation des mémoires de la Faculté de médecine, de l’Académie de chirurgie et de la Société de médecine ; par les professeurs de l’École de Santé de Paris from 1794!

Many of us have thoughts of gardening this time of year but probably not at the level of the National Vegetable Research Station in Warwick in 1965:

The English physitians guide: or a holy-guide, leading the way to know all things past, present and to come : to resolve all manner of questions, viz. of pleasure, long-life, health, youth, blessednes, wisdome and vertue … and teaching the way to change, cure and remedy all diseases … by John Heydon from 1662.

Someone took notes at this 1922 Sotheby’s auction:

The sale itself seems to have been of “antiquities” from all over the world including Egypt and Peru.

Did you enjoy all the goodies on our Twitter feed last week about conferences? We did, too, so we decided to share the whole set with you. There’s all kinds of good stuff in here from 1616 all the way up to 2022!

An 1825 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine thesis submitted in Latin.

Have a look at An Essay on the Sympathy of the Brain with the Stomach from 1825, submitted for the degree of doctor of medicine. You can click the title above to see the item on IA or you can flip through it below.

From the For the Health of the New Nation project, An essay on Rubeola for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine from 1825:

There are lots more like this, too: just check out the feed of the items most recently added to our collection!

I make it a point to share this every October: