From Visit to Pearl Harbor Aboard the USS Repose (1952).
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Our Reading List (#3)
With the exciting news last week of the finding of one of the ships from Sir John Franklin’s last expedition, we decided to pull together some of the MHL’s resources on Arctic exploration in case this news stimulates your interest and while it’s still warm enough out that reading about the Arctic can be fun!
- You could start out with Georg Hartwig’s The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe (1874)
- And then try Robert DeCourcy Ward’s Climate, considered especially in relation to man (1908) and Burroughs Wellcome’s The romance of exploration and emergency first-aid from Stanley to Byrd … (1934?), created for the Chicago International Exposition of 1934.
- If you want to get personal, try The Private Journal of James Markham Ambler, M.D. (1914)
- And then you can dive right into the search for Franklin and his missing ships! There’s Sir John Richardson’s Arctic searching expedition : a journal of a boat-voyage through Rupert’s Land and the Arctic Sea : in search of the discovery ships under command of Sir John Franklin (1852) and Robert Anstruther Goodsir’s An Arctic voyage to Baffin’s Bay and Lancaster Sound : in search of friends with Sir John Franklin (1850). There’s Elisha Kent Kane’s The United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin : a personal narrative (1857) and William Elder’s biography of Kane, himself a fascinating historical figure: Biography of Elisha Kent Kane (1858).
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New to the MHL!
Have you checked out the latest items added to our collection? Here are a few highlights:
- Transactions of the National Dental Association, volume 19 (1918)
- Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-Urinary Diseases, volume 19 (1901)
- Letter from JJ Woodward to Bowditch on Army Medical Museum, (1876)
- Opera medicinalia : cum additionibus Francisci Pedemontani (1479)
- Il libro della consolatione delle medicine semplici solutive (1492)
- Colliget (1482)
- A surgical handbook: for the use of practitioners and students (1889)
- The management of children (1880)
- A compend of gynecology (1899)
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From Flight Surgeon’s Manual (1962).
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A/V from the Library
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A/V from the Library
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New to the MHL!
Have you checked out the latest additions to the MHL? We have Naval oral histories and lots of cookbooks this week!
- Stories from U.S. Naval Hospital Guam Part 1 “Marines Love Their Corpsman” – An Exclusive Interview with Lt. General Snowden (you can find Part 2 and Part 3 here, too!)
- High-class Cookery Recipes: as taught in the school (1885)
- A poetical cookbook (1864) (if “high-class” doesn’t do it for you!)
- Hand-book of practical cookery, for ladies and professional cooks: containing the whole science and art of preparing human food by Pierre Blot (1868)
- Gunter’s Modern confectioner: a practical guide to the latest and most improved methods for making the various kinds of confectionery with the manner of preparing and laying out desserts adapted for private families, or large establishments (1864)
- Cookery as it should be: a new manual of the dining room and kitchen, for persons in moderate circumstances containing original receipts on every branch of cookery, domestic beverages, food for invalids, pickling, &c., &c., together with bills of fare for every day of the year, rules for carving, &c (1855)
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A/V from the Library
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From Navy Department BUMED News Letter Vol. 4, No. 4, August 18, 1944 (1944).
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Digital Highlights: Oral Histories
The United States Navy Bureau of Medical History Office has made a number of transcripts and recordings of oral histories available through the Medical Heritage Library.
Interviews were conducted with through the 1990s and 2000s with doctors, nurses, corpsmen, and NCOs who had been involved in a variety of historical events throughout the 20th century.
Joseph Brennan of the 6th Naval Beach Battalion, was present at the D-Day Normandy beach landings.
Doctor Walter Burwell served on the USS Suwanee in the Pacific during World War II while the Japanese were conducting kamikaze attacks on ships.
Ruby Brooks was a nurse aboard the USS Haven during the evacuation of survivors of Dien Bien Phu from Saigon during the Vietnam war.
James Bray was a corpsman in World War II and was captured as a prisoner of war.
Doctor James Chandler, serving in Vietnam, can list “removed live rocket-propelled grenade from patient” on his resume.
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