“Oldies but Goodies”

In light of the maintenance going on at the Internet Archive which is making access to the MHL collections a little unpredictable, check out these past features in our Digital Highlights series!

  • Walter Murray Gibson’s “Sanitary Instructions for Hawaiians”: “The English and Hawaiian language editions of Walter Murray Gibson’sSanitary Instructions for Hawaiiansrepresent interesting milestones in Hawaiian public health.”
  • Electricity in Medicine: “The collection, printed in 1746, details a series of experiments that Watson carried out, and is noteworthy for his observations on the conductive properties of water and the effect that atmospheric moisture had on electrical experimentation.”
  • Seasonal Ailments: “Welcome to summer! It came in with a genuine heatwave here in the Northeast, but  heat exhaustion and sunburn aren’t the only ailments prevalent during the summer; Dr. James C. Wilson of Philadelphia wrote a whole book on the subject called (cheerfully enough!) The Summer and Its Diseases.”
  • Sickroom Lessons: “For several years in the mid-nineteenth century starting in 1839, English social activist Harriet Martineau was a housebound invalid, suffering from the pain of a tumor.”
  • Shut your mouth and save your life!: “This work, which is dedicated to “the nervous and bilious,” promises to educate readers about the “art of invigorating and prolonging life by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine [and] sleep,” but nevertheless ends, somewhat ominously, with an extended section devoted to “the pleasures of making a will.”
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