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The MHL Welcomes New Content Contributor: The University of Illinois Chicago Library of the Health Sciences

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The University of Illinois Chicago recently added 16 items to the Medical Heritage Library’s collection. The titles include Plexus, the official publication of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Medical Department of the University of Illinois at the end of the 19th century. Other titles include The Swedish Covenant Hospital and Home of Mercy, and the Medical and dental colleges of the west : historical and biographical: Chicago as edited by H.G. Cutler in 1896, a valuable resource for those interested in 19th century medical education and services in the Chicago area.

The Special Collections and University Archives Department at the Richard J. Daley Library houses collections of rare books, manuscripts, maps and photographs, with particular strength in the social, political and cultural history of Chicago. The collections at the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago document Chicago’s rich history as a center for the education and practice of the medical arts.

The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a content centered digital community supporting research, education, and dialog that enables the history of medicine to contribute to a deeper understanding of human health and society. It serves as the point of access to a valuable body of quality curated digital materials and to the broader digital and nondigital holdings of its members. It was established in 2010 with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation via the Open Knowledge Common to digitize 30,000 medical rare books. MHL principal contributors are The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University, the National Library of Medicine, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Welch Medical Library, Library of the Institute of the History of Medicine, and the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, and the Wellcome Library. The MHL also includes content contributions from Duke University, University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Lamar Soutter Library, and the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto among others.

BUMED’s historians upload 2000th item to Medical Heritage Library

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After slightly more than a year of uploading material to the Medical Heritage Library, the US Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery’s 2000th item appeared online today (May 19). A Series of Reports to the Nursing Division of the activities of the Nurse Corps Officers serving aboard the U.S. Naval Hospital in the Repose is now easily available for research. The reports from CDRs Angelica Vitillo and M.T. Kovacevich back to Captain Ruth Erickson, Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, and her successor CAPT Veronica Bulshefski date from 8 November 1965 to 2 December 1966. They are in turns informative, chatty and sad.

” Our first direct casualty which arrived Saturday, the nineteenth, was a nineteen year old bilateral mid-thigh amputee who to date has received over 45 pints of blood.” (28 February 1966)

” The improvements we have initiated in our individual staterooms have contributed to maintaining a high state of moral among the nurses, One of the base shops at Hunters Point allowed us to misappropriate an assortment of very colorful and feminine looking bedspreads for our rooms.” (13 December 1965)

“Death claimed the life of a very young man who had extensive chest wounds on Monday, the seventh and a thirty three year old arm amputee with other extensive wounds on Tuesday the eighth. Some of our young nurses are feeling these losses acutely.” (9 March 1966)

These letters join a soon-to-be complete set of over 1000 issues of 70 years of Navy Medicine magazine; oral histories with veterans of World War 2, Korea and Vietnam; a growing collection of audiovisuals including one on the Navy’s humanitarian efforts after the Vietnam War; and many other items.

A small selection of our photographs may  be found on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymedicine/.