“Sebastian Kniepp’s Legacy to Worishofen,” pictured at the beginning of “The Codicil.”
As colder weather comes on, many of us are changing an outdoor for an indoor exercise routine: Sebastian Kniepp wants to help you with that. Continue reading
Frontispiece: “Barbers Hall, Monkwell Street, London” from “The Barbers’ Company.”
The Barbers’ Company is a brief monograph on the combined history of barbering and surgery from ancient Greece through the mid-nineteenth century. Continue reading
Here are some of the latest titles to be added to our Internet Archive collection… Continue reading
A selection from the Center for the History of Medicine’s mendicant collection
In 2003, the Center for the History of Medicine acquired a collection of about 200 pamphlets, books, and ephemera, ranging in date from the early 19th century to the 1960s, intended to be sold by the disabled. Continue reading
More titles from our NEH-funded grant project are going live almost every day.
Here are some of the latest: Continue reading
Title page of “Talks to My Patients.”
In response to what she described as widespread patient request, Mrs. Rachel B. Gleason wrote Talks to My Patients in 1870. Continue reading
From James Hinshelwood’s Congenital Word-blindness (1917).
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
The MHL is pleased to announce that the first titles from our new National Endowment for the Humanities-funded digitization grant are going live in our Internet Archive collection.
If you glance through the list in the “This Just In” section of our Internet Archive page, you’ll see titles like the Thomsonian Botanic Watchman, the Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal, the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, the Aesculapian Register, and the New England Botanic Medical and Surgical Journal.
The current titles are the result of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine‘s first month of digitization but check back frequently for more titles from the Countway, the Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, the Columbia Health Sciences Library, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Dedication from “The Rappers.”
Table-rapping, table-turning, spirit writing, and other forms of communication with “another world” were common and popular forms of spiritualistic activity in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Some consider that the rapping done by the Fox sisters in the late 1840s as the beginning of the spiritualist movement in the United States. The girls later admitted that their “spirit communication” was fraudulent but by that time — the 1880s — the admission had little effect: the movement was an independent thing. Continue reading
Hawaiian language title page of Walter Murray Gibson’s He mau olelo ao e pili ana i ke ola kino ona kanaka Hawaii [i.e., Sanitary Instructions for Hawaiians]. (Honolulu: Paiia e R. Grieve, 1881).
English language title page of Walter Murray Gibson’s Sanitary Instructions for Hawaiians (Honolulu: P. C. Advertiser, 1881).
The English and Hawaiian language editions of Walter Murray Gibson’s Sanitary Instructions for Hawaiians represent interesting milestones in Hawaiian public health. Continue reading
