On August 10th, 2011, MHL project members met at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia to discuss the future of the MHL project. This was the first meeting under our NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant. Continue reading
Anatomical chart frontispiece from Faulkner and Carmichael’s The Cottage Physician (1892).
We are pleased to announce the addition of 286 classic medical rare books from the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, to the Medical Heritage Library (MHL)’s holdings in the Internet Archive. The Lamar Soutter Library is the first contributor of existing digital materials to the MHL; by adding the tag “medicalheritage” to the cataloging information for each book in the Internet Archive, the Lamar Soutter Library has radically expanded the volumes’ potential audience. These digital texts join materials from Columbia, Harvard, and Yale, the National Library of Medicine, and the New York Public Library that will comprise the MHL. Continue reading
A handwritten recipe for the botts, a parasite that affects horses, in Gervase Markham’s "The Citizen and Countryman’s Experienced Farrier" (Wilmington, Delaware: James Adams, 1764). Ingredients include vinegar, molasses, and gin.
Over the past twelve months the National Library of Medicine, a principal partner in the Medical Heritage Library, has been digitizing books from its early American medical book collection, and included have been a number of important and interesting items relating to veterinary medicine. Continue reading
The Medical Heritage Library is seeking new contributors to expand and enhance resources and services to the MHL’s community of scholars, students, and other users. To facilitate participation of libraries and other organizations, the MHL has identified three ways in which they can contribute. Continue reading
From Lionel J. Beale’s A Treatise on the Distortions and Deformities of the Human Body (1833).
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
"Diagram of the more important distributions of the autonomic nervous system." From Cannon's "Bodily Changes..." (24)
The experience of having a great meal disturbed by an argument is a common one and a headache can make a work-day seem like it lasts 10 times as long. In 1915, Walter B. Cannon wrote Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage to describe the physical changes that accompany certain emotions. Continue reading
Welcome to the middle of the week! Here are some recent digital humanities news stories that have come across our feeds here at the MHL… Continue reading
Title page of Ann Brookhouse's narrative.
Tabloid-style stories have been popular for far longer than what we think of as tabloid journalism. A Narrative of the Seizure & Confinement of Ann Brookhouse from the end of the eighteenth century is just such a piece. Purporting to be the true life narrative of a young female victim of abduction “as related by herself” and “written by a friend.” Continue reading
In a new series on the MHL blog, I’m going to be putting together a semi-regular series on other collections and tools that you might find useful. If you think there’s something I missed — something that should have a home on our “Tools for Digital Research” page, maybe? — please let me know! The email is medicalheritage (one word) at gmail dot com.
This week, I want to point out the Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Continue reading
