We’re already adding items related to the current pandemic. You can see the current list here; since search links from IA are stable, just check back to see new items come in!
Primary Source Sets
MHL Collections
Reference Shelves
Category: Digital Highlights
The MHL On…
…quarantine.
Check out all our resources related to quarantine here.
Surprise!
When looking through the collection for material for the blog this week, I wasn’t expecting to find a 1923 sanitary survey of the town where I went to high school:
New to the MHL!
Even in the middle of a pandemic, we’re still adding new items — here are a few of the most recent:
- Ensayo sobre una nueva neoplasia del hombre traducida [i.e. producida] por un protozoario y transmisible á los animales: psorospermiosis infectante generalizada (That’s volume one; we have volume two here.)
- Velpeau’s A treatise on surgical anatomy: or the anatomy of regions, considered in its relations with surgery : illustrated by plates representing the principal regions of the body (Also a two volume situation.)
- Air, food, and exercises : an essay on the predisposing causes of disease by Andrea Rabagliati
- JPF Deleuze on Practical instruction in animal magnetism
You can always see the full collection on Internet Archive.
Past Headlines
We mined through our state medical journals collection to see what contemporary medical journalism had to say about the influenza epidemic of 1918/19.
We’ve picked some highlights here but there are plenty more where these came from. Search for ‘influenza’ or ‘flu’ in any volume to see more results!
- Minnesota Medicine, November 1918
- Illinois Medical Journal, October 1918
- Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, October 1918
- Texas State Journal of Medicine, May 1918
- Nebraska State Medical Journal, November 1918
Post Round-up: Influenza
Given the current topic on everyone’s mind, we thought we’d look back on the posts we have about influenza and gather them here for some historical context.
- We have four guest posts from Tom Ewing’s 2018 class on Data in Social Context which used our state medical journals collection as its dataset:
- We have three posts from Professor Ewing using the writings of a particular physician to examine the 1918 epidemic:
- You can view our exhibit on World War I which includes a section on the 1918 epidemic
- We also have two posts from our partners at the College of Physicians
New to the MHL!
A copy of Michael Scot’s Liber phisionomie from around 1508.
A Different Kind of Election
But still pretty interesting! A 1788 publication addressed to “Sir J. Banks” on the upcoming presidential election of the Royal Society.
What the Eye Sees—
–in color from 1904! (Just click on the image to see the full volume on the Internet Archive.)
New to the MHL!
This beautiful fifteenth century manuscript, Notata diligenter visa et p[re]uigili cura auscultata circa tres libros de A[n]ima Arestotilis La[m]berti de monte artiu[m] magistri ac sacre theologie professoris iuxta doctrima[m] insignis et sancti doctoris Thome de Aquino ordinis fratrum predicatorum expliciunt feliciter.