From James W. Roosevelt’s In sickness and in health; a manual of domestic medicine and surgery, hygiene, dietetics, and nursing (1896).
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Title page of “The Aristocracy of Health.”
“The new blood cell will be red of color and round of form.” (9) With these words, Mary Newton Foote Henderson exhorts the readers of her 1904 The Aristocracy of Health; a study of physical culture, our favorite poisons, and a national and international league for the advancement of physical culture to work towards a holistic vision of physical culture. Continue reading
From Nándor Klug’s Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Verdauung der Vögel, insbesondere der Gänse (1892).
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From Berkeley Moynihan’s Abdominal Operations Volume 1 (1916).
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Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library
History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series
Dr. David Hosack: “Stormy Petrel” of American Medical Education
By Michael Nevins, M.D., President, Medical History Society of New Jersey
Wednesday, March 13: Refreshments, 5:30; Lecture, 6pm
Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion, Room 2, 1150 St. Nicholas Ave. at West 168th St. Continue reading
From Moritz Borochardt’s Osteoplastischer verschluss grosser bruchpforten (1898).
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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 the New York Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing’s Announcement (1917).
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Medal issued to commemorate the 70th birthday of Louis Pasteur, 1892.
The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at the Columbia University Medical Center, one of the MHL partner institutions, is pleased to present “Mirroring Medicine,” an exhibition of medical-themed medals from the collection of Dr. Ira Rezak, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Continue reading
From Luther Holden, John Langton, and Addinell Hewson’s Holden’s anatomy: a manual of the dissection of the human body (1901).
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