Digital Highlights: Our 50,000th Item “The Doctor’s Advice”

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Illustration of a child from “The Doctor’s Advice.”

The Medical Heritage Library recently passed a milestone: we uploaded our 50,000th item, the wonderfully titled The doctor’s advice : or how, when, and what to eat and drink, how to secure good health and long life, how to prevent and treat disease, what mothers and nurses ought to know : how to care for the baby, and give to our boys and girls the best moral, mental, and physical culture, when and whom to marry, how to choose a wife or husband, and how to be happy from 1898. Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Christmas Packages

Click through the pages above or follow this link to read Suggestions for Christmas packets for our men at home and abroad (1917).

This is our last post for 2013 — but never fear! We’ll be back again in January and our collection is always available via the Internet Archive. Thanks for helping us make this a great year and we look forward to talking with you all in 2014!

Digital Highlights: It’s That Time of Year Again…

Check out some original sources on the ‘flu!

Flip through the pages above or follow this link to go to Worth B. Daniels’ An account of the origin, symptoms, and cure of the influenza or epidemic catarrh : with some hints respecting common colds and incipient pulmonary consumption (1823).

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