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!
Despite the holidays, we’re always adding new items to our Internet Archive collection. Here are just a few of the latest: Continue reading
Check out some original sources on the ‘flu!
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
This week, check out original sources on S. Weir Mitchell:
And as always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
This week, check out original sources on William Osler:
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
We’re always adding new items to our collection. Here are some of the latest: Continue reading
Lisa Haushofer of the Remedia blog has written a new piece focusing on physician P.J. Marie de Saint-Ursin’s L’ami des Femmes: Continue reading
In the nineteenth century, concern about alcoholism was widespread in the United States. The history of alcoholism — in America or elsewhere — has a much longer history, but the nineteenth century, with the explosion of cheap print materials and faster methods of communication, had generous possibilities for public discussion and sensationalism. Continue reading
In 1871, John Ordronaux, professor of medical jurisprudence at the Law School of Columbia College, published a bilingual (Latin and English) edition of The Code of Health of the School of Salernum. The volume was found valuable enough even to run to a special edition of only 210 copies, printed on “extra large superfine tinted paper” for $5 a copy. Continue reading
