Digital Highlights: “The Kingdom of Evils”

Two years after the death of E.E. Southard, one of his co-workers, Mary Jarrett, published one of the volumes on social work which Southard had proposed before his death. The Kingdom of Evils was meant to be a kind of instructional chart of what Southard — and presumably Jarrett – felt were the chief problems likely to confront the social worker. Continue reading

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Digital Highlights: Family Doctors

Flip through the pages above or follow this link to read Die Frau als Hausärztin : ein ärztliches Nachschlagebuch der Gesundheitspflege und Heilkunde in der Familie, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Frauen- und Kinderkrankheiten, Geburtshilfe und Kinderpflege (1911).

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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