As city physician of Zurich, part of Jakob Rüff’s [or Jacob Rueff] (1500-58) responsibilities included the regulation of public midwives and their duties. In 1554, he issued a practical manual intended primarily for midwives, but which also addressed surgeons, elite women, and scholars. Two editions were released that year: one in Latin (De Conceptu et Generatione Homini) and one in German (Ein schön lustig Trostbüchle). Continue reading
Here are some of the latest titles going into the MHL collection from the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University… Continue reading
From the British Medical Association, American Medical Association, and Henry S. Wellcome joint publication, Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft (1912).
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John Browne, “A Compleat Discourse of Wounds” (London, 1678).
Columbia University Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library
History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
Neurosurgery Before Neurosurgery by Dr. Eugene S. Flamm Continue reading
From J.E. De Becker’s The nightless city, or, the “History of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku” (1899).
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Remedianetwork is a group blog project that tries to bring the history of medicine into dialogue with its present. This piece is the first in a semi-regular series of cross-posted content.
Obesity is often thought to be a twenty-first century disease. Our “modern lifestyle,” so the theory goes, with its rich diet, lack of exercise, and sedentary occupations, has led to the spread of a fatal condition. How far back would you date the beginning of this new epidemic? 20 years? 30? 50? Turns out, obesity was a concern as early as 1816. These medical tracts, held by the Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, and published online in the Medical Heritage Library attest to longstanding anxiety. Go on, leaf through! Continue reading
From Alfred Cleveland Cotton’s Lessons on the anatomy, physiology and hygiene of infancy and childhood for junior students. Consisting of extracts from lectures given at Rush medical college (1900).
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Click the image above to go to Feet (1927).
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Here are some of the recent stories that have come across our desks here at the MHL… Continue reading
From the New York Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing’s Announcement (1917).
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