From James Hinshelwood’s Congenital Word-blindness (1917).
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40,000+ Items!
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
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From Joseph A. Long and E.L. Mark’s The Maturation of the Egg of the Mouse (1911).
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Digital Highlights: “The Wilderness Cure”
Title page of “The Wilderness Cure.”
At the end of the nineteenth century, concerns were common over the enfeeblement of the human form — often the male human form — particularly of those who lived in cities or worked in factories or offices, those “new” and “unnatural” environments.
In 1881, Marc Cook, an office-worker in New York City, wrote The Wilderness Camp, his own personal tale of health revitalized through retreat from the city and return to the country. Continue reading
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From Augusto Righi’s Die Optik der elektrischen Schwingungen : Experimental-Untersuchungen über elektromagnetische Analoga zu den wichtigsten Erscheinungen der Optik (1898).
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From Alfred Braun and Isidore Friesner’s The labyrinth: An Aid to the Study of Inflammations of the Internal Ear (1913).
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Digital Highlights: Representing the Physician
Images of touch-pieces for scrofula.
In 1896, William Andrews published The doctor; in history, literature, folklore, etc.
Andrews assembled 20 chapters written by a variety of authors, including at least one woman (Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks although, of course, the name may be a pseudonym). Continue reading
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From Edward L. Ormerod’s British social wasps, an introduction to their anatomy and physiology, architecture, and general natural history, with illustrations of the different species and their nests (1868).
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From Arthur Schueller’s Roentgen Diagnosis of Diseases of the Head (1918).
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From Plymmon S. Hayes’ Electricity and the Methods of Its Employment in Removing Superfluous Hair and Other Facial Blemishes (1880).
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