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Tag: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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From Thomas Annandale’s The malformations, diseases and injuries of the fingers and toes and their surgical treatment (1866).
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Processing of the Erich Lindemann Papers Nearing Completion
Erich Lindemann.
The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that processing of the Erich Lindemann papers is nearing completion. Continue reading
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From Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum chemicum britannicum : containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philosophers, who have written the hermetique mysteries in their owne ancient language (1652).
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Digital Highlights: Penal Colony Voyages
Title page of “Two Voyages…”
In 1817, Thomas Reid accepted an appointment as “Surgeon and Superintendant” of male convicts on the Neptune, a ship carrying prisoners sentenced to transportation from England to New South Wales. Continue reading
Digital Highlights: Regimen Sanitatis Salerni
In 1871, John Ordronaux, professor of medical jurisprudence at the Law School of Columbia College, published a bilingual (Latin and English) edition of The Code of Health of the School of Salernum. The volume was found valuable enough even to run to a special edition of only 210 copies, printed on “extra large superfine tinted paper” for $5 a copy. Continue reading
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From the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Secours aux blessés (1864).
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Digital Highlights: Missionary Medical Training
Title page of “Murdered Millions.”
Murdered Millions (1897), by George Dowknott, M.D., is a brief treatise relating to Christian medical missions. Continue reading
Countway and Hopkins Receive Mellon Foundation Grant
Psychiatrists Erich Lindemann (center right) and Lydia M. Gibson Dawes (center left) at an unidentified social event. Lydia M. Gibson Dawes papers, 1926-1959 (B MS c96). From the Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
The Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School has received a $202,900 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the Council on Library Resources (CLIR) to increase access to critical resources currently unavailable to historical research. Continue reading
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From Ruth Smiley True’s Boyhood and lawlessness | The neglected girl (1914).
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