From Hanau W. Loeb’s Operative surgery of the nose, throat, and ear, for laryngologists, rhinologists, otologists, and surgeons (1917).
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As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
From Lewis A. Sayre’s Croup : case of traumatic hemorrhage following tracheotomy, arising from the imperfect form of the tracheal tubes used, and some remarks on the treatment of croup by inhalation of steam, illustrated by cases (1864).
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We can’t hope to be as exhaustive as Whewell’s Ghost or The History Carnival, but all this talk of going back to school has us thinking in reading lists. Here’s some of what we’re looking at online this week.
If that last piece piques your interest, we have lots of 19th century medical journals already in the collection and more coming in all the time! Check out issues of the Philadelphia journal of the medical and physical sciences (1820), the New York journal of medicine (1856), the Maryland medical journal (1901), the American journal of the medical sciences (1827), or the New Yorker medizinische Monatsschrift (1891).
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From W.F. Hutchinson’s Under the Southern Cross : a guide to the sanitariums and other charming places in the West Indies and Spanish Main (1891).
Have you checked out the latest items added to our collection? Here are a few highlights:
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As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
From Neuer Leitfaden für den Turn-Unterricht in den Preussischen Volkschulen (1868).
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Modern food packaging regulations did not come from thin air: one of the parent pieces of legislation in the United Kingdom was the Adulteration Act of 1860. Previous to formal legislation on the subject, adulteration of foodstuffs — bread, coffee, tea, cheese, processed meats, alcohol — was a widespread problem. Continue reading
