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MHL Lunch Session at AAHM 2013 at Emory University
The Medical Heritage Library delivered a successful lunch session at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, held at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Entitled “Maximizing the Medical Heritage Library’s Usefulness for Research: New Content, New Tools”, the four panelists highlighted recent additions to the MHL and offered a glimpse into future plans: Continue reading
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From James W. Roosevelt’s In sickness and in health; a manual of domestic medicine and surgery, hygiene, dietetics, and nursing (1896).
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Digital Highlights: Health Aristocracy
Title page of “The Aristocracy of Health.”
“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 MHL Welcomes New Content Contributor
Burned and injured patients receive care aboard USS Solace following Pearl Harbor attack.
The U.S. Navy’s Medical Department is headed by the Surgeon General and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED). Continue reading
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From Transactions of the Phrenological Society (1824).
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The MHL Welcomes a New Content Contributor
Weill Cornell Medical Center under construction. Photograph by Sigurd Fischer, c. 1932.
Medical Center Archives of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell is pleased to become a contributor to the Medical Heritage Library. Continue reading
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From the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Secours aux blessés (1864).
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Digital Highlights: Missionary Medical Training
Title page of “Murdered Millions.”
Murdered Millions (1897), by George Dowknott, M.D., is a brief treatise relating to Christian medical missions. Continue reading