University of Glasgow Library - Medical Heritage Library

New to the MHL!

By November 18, 2015 April 8, 2016 News

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)

And as always, check out our full collection for more!

Images from the Library

By MHL September 28, 2015 August 5, 2021 Images

From Edward Coleman’s Observations on the structure, œconomy, and diseases of the foot of the horse, and on the principles and practice of shoeing. (1798)

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Images from the Library

By MHL July 13, 2015 August 5, 2021 Images

From John Gordon’s Engravings of the skeleton of the human body (1818).

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Images from the Library

By MHL June 29, 2015 August 5, 2021 Images

From Matthew Robinson’s The new family herbal : comprising a description and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants, founded on the works of eminent modern English and American writers on the medical properties of herbs to which is added, the botanic family physician valuable medical receipts and important directions regarding diet , clothing, bathing, air, exercise, &c., &c. (1872)

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Images from the Library

By MHL June 22, 2015 August 19, 2021 Images

From Matthew Robinson’s The new family herbal : comprising a description and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants, founded on the works of eminent modern English and American writers on the medical properties of herbs to which is added, the botanic family physician valuable medical receipts and important directions regarding diet , clothing, bathing, air, exercise, &c., &c. (1872)

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Images from the Library

By MHL June 15, 2015 August 19, 2021 Images

From Matthew Robinson’s The new family herbal : comprising a description and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants, founded on the works of eminent modern English and American writers on the medical properties of herbs to which is added, the botanic family physician valuable medical receipts and important directions regarding diet , clothing, bathing, air, exercise, &c., &c. (1872)

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Images from the Library

By MHL June 8, 2015 August 19, 2021 Images

From Matthew Robinson’s The new family herbal : comprising a description and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants, founded on the works of eminent modern English and American writers on the medical properties of herbs to which is added, the botanic family physician valuable medical receipts and important directions regarding diet , clothing, bathing, air, exercise, &c., &c. (1872)

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Images from the Library

By MHL June 1, 2015 August 19, 2021 Images

This month, our Monday images come from Matthew Robinson’s The new family herbal : comprising a description and the medical virtues of British and foreign plants, founded on the works of eminent modern English and American writers on the medical properties of herbs to which is added, the botanic family physician valuable medical receipts and important directions regarding diet , clothing, bathing, air, exercise, &c., &c. (1872)

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New to the MHL!

By May 20, 2015 April 8, 2016 Digital Highlights

Check out some of the latest additions to our collection!

John Wayte, Anti-phrenology: or, Observations to prove the fallacy of a modern doctrine of the human mind, called phrenology (1829)
Richard Millar, A letter to the Fever Committee, on their hitherto unsuccessful attempts to restrain typhus contagion in Glasgow; on the present state of the epidemic; and on the new, or additional, means that may be found requisite in order to ensure its abatement, or suppression (1818)
Kongelige Medicinske Selskab (Copenhagen), Forhandlinger i det kongl. medicinske Selskab i Anledning af den Rigsdagen forelagte Lov om Frigivelse af Lægepraxis (1868)
H.M. Cohen, Die Myodynamik des Herzens und der Blut-gefässe: Vorläufiger Bericht (1859)
Sampson Gamgee, The surgical epoch : an introductory lecture to a course of clinical surgery : delivered in the Queen’s College, at Birmingham, November 16th, 1857 (1857)
Charles Forbes Montalembert, Speech of the Count de Montalembert, in the House of Peers of France, the 5th June, 1847, on the subject of medical reform (1847)

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