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Digital Highlights: Gardens and Gardening

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The gardeners among us have been planning their Spring 2013 gardening for months now. There are plenty of plants that can be prepared for the season before; perennials can be trimmed up and put to bed; beds for other plants can be prepared; the work is more or less endless if you want it to be. Just about now, too, the seed and plant companies start sending out their temptingly colored works for the creation of gardening wish-lists.

These works aren’t quite as colorful as, say, Burpee’s shiny Technicolor productions, but they provide valuable insight into the intersection between medicine, science, and gardening at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th. Continue reading

Holiday Hiatus

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The Medical Heritage Library blog — right here! — and Twitter — right there! — will be on hiatus (mostly) from December 21st, 2012, to January 2, 2013.

Our Facebook page will be lively as usual, covering the birthdays of Louis Pasteur and Vesalius among other things.

Have a wonderful holiday wherever you are and whatever you’re doing and we will be back on our usual schedule in January!