From Georges Crouigneau’s Promenades d’un médecin à travers l’Exposition (souvenirs de 1889) (1890). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to listen to I’m a Skoal Dippin’ Man (undated). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
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… Continue reading
From the YMCA Yearbook and Official Roster (1891). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Press “play” above or follow this link to watch Proud Years (1956). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
With the exciting news last week of the finding of one of the ships from Sir John Franklin’s last expedition, we decided to pull together some of the MHL’s resources on Arctic exploration in case this news stimulates your interest and while it’s still warm enough out that reading about the Arctic can be fun! You could start out with Georg Hartwig’s The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the… Continue reading
The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is pleased to announce that MHL content can now be discovered through the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Continue reading
From Hanau W. Loeb’s Operative surgery of the nose, throat, and ear, for laryngologists, rhinologists, otologists, and surgeons (1917). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Here’s some of what we’ve been reading this week to help ease you into the weekend… The Recipes Project blog has a great piece on Teaching with Historic Recipes. Personally, I’d love it if someone could teach me to make the glow-wine from Lewis Feuchtwanger’s Fermented Liquors. If that doesn’t strike your fancy, check out one of our other cooking-related titles. Martin GrandJean has some interesting infographics and thoughts on “who follows who” in the Twitter digital humanities… Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch: Today’s neuroscience, tomorrow’s history: Professor Salvador Moncada (2006). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
