From Guyot-Daubès’ Curiosités physiologiques : les hommes-phénomènes : force, agilité, adresse : hercules, coureurs, sauteurs, nageurs, plongeurs, gymnastes, équilibristes, disloqués, jongleurs, avaleurs de sabres, tireurs (1885).
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One of our partners, the National Library of Medicine, has recently added lots of new titles to the MHL. Here are a few highlights… Continue reading
From Matthieu Orfila’s Leçons faisant partie du cours de médecine légale (1821).
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Title page from "Life in the Sick-Room." Click the image to go directly to the book!
For several years in the mid-nineteenth century starting in 1839, English social activist Harriet Martineau was a housebound invalid, suffering from the pain of a tumor. Before this period, she was an extremely active writer and traveller, moving around the United Kingdom and the United States to examine living conditions and current affairs in both countries. Continue reading
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From Moritz Borochardt’s Osteoplastischer verschluss grosser bruchpforten (1898).
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Title page of "The Misfortunes of Mary Roesly."
Mary Roesly, a young Massachusetts woman, was waiting for a train in 1864: “By a sudden start, as I had just mounted the car platform, I was instantly thrown under the car, and my arm was crushed at the elbow…” (6) Continue reading
You are invited to a cocktail hour to meet and chat with representatives of the Medical Heritage Library.
We will be meeting informally on April 26th at 5 pm at The Yards, the hotel bar at Baltimore’s Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards, at the start of the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM).
We hope to see you at 5 PM on April 26th at The Yard at the Baltimore Marriott!
American Journal of Insanity, v. 1, n. 1, 1844
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), through the Open Knowledge Commons (OKC), has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a two-year project to digitize and preserve historical American medical journals. The digitized journals will be made freely available to researchers through the Medical Heritage Library collection in the Internet Archive. Continue reading
From Arthur Schueller’s Roentgen Diagnosis of Diseases of the Head (1918).
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