New to the MHL!

Here are a few highlights from the latest items added to our collection; you can add a RSS feed that will give you updates on our new items here.

First, a couple of items with rather immediate topical application:

• James J. Waring’s The epidemic at Savannah, 1876 : its causes, the measures of prevention adopted by the municipality during the administration of J. F. Wheaton, mayor (1879)
• J.L. Logan’s The epidemic of 1878 in Mississippi : report of the yellow fever relief work (1879)

And some mental health titles:

• Julius Bernstein’s The Five Senses of Man (1876), an English translation of Die fünf Sinne des Menschen (1875).
• Jean Martin Charcot’s Lectures on localization in diseases of the brain : delivered at the Faculté de médecine, Paris, 1875 (1878)
• Landon Carter Grey’s A treatise on nervous and mental diseases : for students and practitioners of medicine (1895)
• On hospitals for the insane : with particular reference to separate establishments for the chronic insane poor : discussion of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, in convention, at Washington (1866)

And lastly, the wonderfully titled….

• Archibald Adams’ Male sexual health : a gold mine of value to every man, married or single : a plain, practical, up-to-date guide to all men who value sexual health and strength : showing in direct language the preservation of the male generative system and the dangers of its abuse : how to care for and perpetuate sexual powers, how to stop losses of vital fluids, how to strengthen the reproductive organs, how to nourish and enrich the blood and tissues, together with a practical digest of the cause, symptoms, and cure of genito-urinary diseases in the male, with modern prescriptions and advice for home treatment (1898)

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