Anna M Taylor’s 1941 Ward Teaching: Methods of Clinical Instruction is as detailed a breakdown of clinical nursing education as you could wish to see. Taylor takes the instructor or program manager through every step of setting up and executing a course of clinical instruction, right down to how to introduce a new nurse into the group and a list of seven factors that will determine the success or failure of a group conference on… Continue reading
The cost of medicine! Rob[ert] Pitt took it on in 1703, promising readers The craft and frauds of physick expos’d: Continue reading
Another beauty from the Familiar garden flowers (1879): Continue reading
Hello everyone! My name is Savannah Flanagan, and I am a Ph.D. student at Baylor University studying history. This summer, I have the honor of serving as the Educational Resources Fellow for the Medical Heritage Library. Over the next few months, I will curate a collection on mental health and illness from the Medical Heritage Library’s extensive collection of online materials. This project will bring forward some interesting items and narrate the complicated history of… Continue reading
It’s the time of year, after all! This gorgeous cover from the 1879 Familiar garden flowers is only a suggestion of the many beautiful color plates inside: Continue reading
One of the many beautiful plates from Benjamin Maund’s 1825 The botanic garden. You can flip through the volume below or see it in our collection on IA! Continue reading
It’s difficult to tell how close to the truth the reader is meant to believe the Passages from the diary of a late physician are — I suspect either not very or only close enough to titillate. Samuel Warren is the physician in question and the two volumes of his Passages are as full of drama as anything Dickens or Trollope plotted out: the struggle of early education, titled patients, mysterious requests, it’s all here! Continue reading
If you need to plan a summer project, may we suggest organizing your own medical library? Bayard Holmes has the perfect step by step for you in his 1895 article. Click to see it in our IA collection or you can page through it below. Continue reading
We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to inquire or to apply. The committee has made a final decision and extended an offer and we’re very excited to introduce our summer fellow to you soon! Continue reading
Better weather calls for something a little light, possibly something you can pick up and put down easily, and the 1815 New family receipt-book fits the bill beautifully. Including, over “eight hundred valuable receipts” covering topics from agriculture to writing, this is veritable mine of household knowledge. Continue reading
