From Sir John Lubbock’s Flowers, fruits, and leaves (1888).
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From Alfred Moquin-Tandon’s Le monde de la mer (1866).
New to the MHL!
Lots of state medical journals, that’s what’s new around here!
Check out:
- The Illinois Medical Journal (approx. 1899-1960)
- Journal of the Florida Medical Association (approx. 1914-1972)
- Delaware Medical Journal (approx. 1964, 2000)
- California Medicine (approx. 1958-1966)
And we also have a ton of new monographs:
- On the Psychology and Pedagogy of the Blind (1902)
- Lectures on madness in its medical, legal, and social aspects (1873)
- An experimental history of the materia medica, or of the natural and artificial substances made use of in medicine : containing a compendious view of their natural history (1791)
- Outlines of phrenology (1844)
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From Félicien-Abel Sutils’ Guide pratique des pesages pendant les deux premières années, à l’usage des médecins-inspecteurs (1889).
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From Edmund Saalfeld’s Lectures on cosmetic treatment : a manual for practitioners (1910).
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From Colour vision : being the Tyndall lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institute (1895).
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From The nature-printed British sea-weeds : a history, accompanied by figures and dissections of the algae of the British Isles, volume II (1860).
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From Cups and their customs (1863).
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New to the MHL!
Check out some of the latest additions to our collection!
- What’s More Frightening than a Great White Shark? (2015)
- Hospital Hi-Lites November 1943
- L’entozoaires de l’encephale (1890)
- Sir John Lubbock’s Scientific lectures (1879)
- Oeuvres de Rufus d’Ephèse : texte collationné sur les manuscrits, traduit pour la première fois en français, avec une introduction (1879)
- Colour vision : being the Tyndall lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institute (1895)
- Cups and their customs (1863)
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Digital Highlights: Tea with Mrs. Quantock
Any fan of E.F. Benson’s Lucia series will remember Daisy Quantock, Lucia’s next-door neighbor in the village of Riseholme. Benson describes Daisy as being a middle-aged woman in perfect health and therefore devoted to whatever diet or exercise fad comes her way. In the opening chapters of Queen Lucia, the first novel in the series, Daisy is a firm believer in cleansing, particularly in cleansing uric acid from her system. Her husband is quite impatient with the system since it means a longer reign of a bad cook hired when Daisy was under the sway of Christian Science and endless lectures from his wife on the dangers to his system of the foods he craves.
Perhaps Daisy and her cook would have pored over something like The Apsley cookery book (1905), a collection of 448 recipes for those on the uric-acid-free diet. The authors provide recipes for everything from soup to nuts, quite literally, along with introductory chapters extolling the virtues of the diet, suggesting proper cookware, and a table of “food values.”
Flip through the pages below or follow this link to read The Apsley cookery book.