Click “play” above or follow this link to watch Foxgloves in medicine (1951). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
We have just submitted our first year report on our second National Endowment for the Humanities-funded grant, “Expanding the Medical Heritage Library: Preserving and Providing Online Access to Historical Medical Periodicals.” Under this grant, we have been digitizing numerous 19th century American medical journals (approximately 1,863 volumes so far!) and we’ve excerpted some of the highlights below. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia The College staff were particularly excited about a number of our selections. Among… Continue reading
From H. Christ’s Die Farnkräuter der Erde : beschreibende Darstellung der geschlechter und wichtigeren Arten der Farnpflanzen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Exotischen (1897). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said it was revealed to him that the King’s hand would cure him: and at the first coming of King Charles II. into St. James’s Park, he kissed the King’s hand and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him [Evans]. It does seem a little forward on a first acquaintance without even an “excuse me,” but the legend of the curative powers of the… Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch Jolly Ann Davidson Tobaco [Tobacco] Institute” Newscenter 22 WWP-TV Springfield 12PM (1991). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From C.J. Cullingworth’s Clinical illustrations of the diseases of the fallopian tubes and of tubal gestation : a series of drawings with descriptive text and histories of the cases (1895). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Hit “play” above or follow this link to watch Spirochaeta pallida and its destruction by the defensive bodies of the organism (1931). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The Medical Heritage Library and its digitizing partners exist to promote and provide access to resources in the history of medicine. That history says much about who we are today—about how we practice medicine, about how we view the body, about the nature of embodied experience and what it means to be? Rare books and journals, but also more ephemeral items like pamphlets and even films are made available to the public without cost. But… Continue reading
From Carl A. Mense’s Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten (1905). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The physiognomical manual of John Caspar Lavater provides rules for judging by the phsyiognomy: is someone’s nose a little to the left? perhaps their eyebrows are not quite symmetrical? or their ears are set far back on their head? These are all guides to their inner character, how they are likely to behave in almost any situation. Lavater’s handbook provides not only visual illustrations so you can match the face against the characteristic, it also promises… Continue reading
