Tag: Columbia University Health Sciences Library

New Titles in the MHL

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The MHL is pleased to announce that the first titles from our new National Endowment for the Humanities-funded digitization grant are going live in our Internet Archive collection.

If you glance through the list in the “This Just In” section of our Internet Archive page, you’ll see titles like the Thomsonian Botanic Watchman, the Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal, the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, the Aesculapian Register, and the New England Botanic Medical and Surgical Journal.

The current titles are the result of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine‘s first month of digitization but check back frequently for more titles from the Countway, the Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, the Columbia Health Sciences Library, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!

40,000+ Items!

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Plate from “Beiträge zur Geburtskunde und Gynaekologie…”

We’re pleased to announce that the Medical Heritage Library collection on the Internet Archive has topped 40,000 items. As of this writing, we are, in fact, over 43,000! Continue reading

Digital Highlights: The 19th Century “Foods for the Fat”

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Sample diet from "Foods for the Fat."

In current health and medical news, “obesity” is a much-used term — the current state of fright over the weight status of the “average” American would seem to be a relatively new issue being linked to everything from children’s inability to pay attention in school to the rise of Type II diabetes in adults.

But the MHL collections include plenty of older material that evinces an extremely modern concern with weight, weight-related health issues, and weight loss. Included in that number is Nathaniel Edward Davies’ 1896 Foods for the Fat: A Treatise on Corpulency and a Dietary for Its Cure. Continue reading