Welcome to midweek! Here are some stories that have come across our desks here at the MHL lately…. Continue reading
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From Thomas Woolnoth’s The Study of the Human Face (1865.)
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Cushing/Whitney Travel Award
One of the partners in the MHL, Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, is offering the fifth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award for use of the historical library. The historical library “holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets” and offers researchers access to the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Haller, Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell among others. Continue reading
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From Thomas Forster’s Annals of Some Remarkable Aerial and Alpine Voyages… (1832).
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From Henry S. Munro’s Handbook of Suggestive Therapeutics (1911).
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Digital Highlights: A History of Intoxication
Title page from "A Brief History..."
In 1840 in Preston, in the north of England in Lancashire, Joseph Dearden published A Brief History of Ancient and Modern Tee-totalism, an apologia for the temperance movement. Continue reading
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From Cornelis Stalpart van der Wiel’s Observationum rariorum medic. anatomic. chirurgicarum (1727).
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Digital Highlights: The Fascination of Crime
Table of contents from "Narratives."
Narratives of Remarkable Crimes, selected from the German works of Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach and published in 1846 in London, consists of 14 of the trials in Feuerbach’s original 1300 page work chosen and translated by Lady Duff Gordon. She provides a brief overview of the German justice system in her preface, commenting on the role of witnesses, judge, and the system of appeals. She spends only a brief paragraph explaining her reasons for choosing the trials here published, mentioning only the influence of an article from the influential and popular Edinburgh Review and her desire to “[choose] those trials which appear to me to have the greatest general interest…” (10) Continue reading
Digital Connection: LOUISiana Digital Library
The LOUISiana Digital Library has 22 participating libraries, archives, museums, and other historical organizations contributing material to document the history and culture of Louisiana. The LDL has a wide variety of resources available, including textual documents, photographs, video clips, and medical illustrations. Included in this vast amount of material is a great deal to do with the history of medicine and science, both in Louisiana and elsewhere. Continue reading
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From Walter J. Kilner’s The Human Atmosphere, or, The Aura Made Visible by the Aid of Chemical Screens (1911).
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