From John Butler’s Electricity in Surgery (1882).
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Click the image above to go to Plaster Bandage Technique: Part I (and Part II).
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Images from the Library
From Cornelis Stalpart van der Wiel’s Observationum rariorum medic. anatomic. chirurgicarum : centuriae posterioris pars prior : auctior longe, atque emendatior (1727).
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Digital Highlights: Electricity in Medicine
Frontispiece from “An essay on electricity, the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it,” by George Adams, 1785, shows a physician applying current generated by an “electrical machine,” to a patient’s arm.
“The Society having heard from some of their Correspondents in Germany that what they call a Vegetable Quintessence had been fired by Electricity, I take this Opportunity to acquaint you, that on Friday Evening last I succeeded, after having been disappointed in many Attempts, in setting Spirits of Wine on Fire by that Power.” Continue reading
New Titles in the MHL
More titles from our NEH-funded grant project are going live almost every day.
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Images from the Library
Image from Giovanni Battista Nazari’s Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre (1599).
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A/V From the Library
Click the image above to go to Modern Aseptic Operating Technique (1938).
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Digital Connection: On Twitter…
We’ve been having an enormously good time on Twitter finding new folks to follow and talk to about digital humanities, libraries, and the history of medicine and science. Continue reading
Images from the Library
From Ambrose Blacklock’s A treatise on sheep; the best means for their improvement, general management, and the treatment of their diseases. With a chapter on wool, and history of the wool trade, and the management of sheep in Australia (1853).
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Digital Highlights: Household Hints
Title page of “Talks to My Patients.”
In response to what she described as widespread patient request, Mrs. Rachel B. Gleason wrote Talks to My Patients in 1870. Continue reading