Name: Hanna Clutterbuck
Date registered: July 14, 2011
In the past few weeks, some wonderful 19th century books on home health care and what might be loosely called “advice manuals,” particularly for women, have come into our collection. Here are a few highlights…
We’ve added a few things to our Tools for Digital Research page…
From Plymmon S. Hayes’ Electricity and the Methods of Its Employment in Removing Superfluous Hair and Other Facial Blemishes (1880). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Manuals of behavior, etiquette, deportment, and home economics are common publications even today. The authors of the 1880 Home and Health and Home Economics would probably have a very hard time recognizing the relationship between their publication and, say, Netiquette.
From Evans and Wormull’s Illustrated Catalogue of Surgical Instruments… (1876). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Medical mysteries are a popular genre — or subgenre, depending on how you classify it! The details of Napoleon’s poisoning, the exact violence used on the Romanovs or Rasputin, or the “Black Dahlia” murder are historical narratives that still get …
From William Beebe’s The Bird, Its Form and Function (1906). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
In 1877, in England, Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, who would become notorious for refusing to take a religious oath to take his seat in Parliament in 1880, were prosecuted for publishing and distributing a book on birth control. In …
Have you checked out what the MHL’s latest additions are? There are a couple of ways you can see what’s new to our collection.
From Felix Lagrange’s Fractures of the Orbit and Injuries to the Eye in War (1918). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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