From Lewis A. Sayre’s Croup : case of traumatic hemorrhage following tracheotomy, arising from the imperfect form of the tracheal tubes used, and some remarks on the treatment of croup by inhalation of steam, illustrated by cases (1864). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
We want you to come write for us! Have you used MHL materials to write? to teach? to research? to data-mine? to make art? just to read? Have you thought of a way you’re going to use the material in a future class or project? Do you see an interesting research path opening up with our material? If you’re a student, a professor, a high school teacher, an independent researcher, a librarian, or a type… Continue reading
We can’t hope to be as exhaustive as Whewell’s Ghost or The History Carnival, but all this talk of going back to school has us thinking in reading lists. Here’s some of what we’re looking at online this week. From the US NLM’s Circulating Now, Sophie Lipman’s piece on Medicine, Morality, Faith, and Film. From the New York Academy of Medicine blog, Klemperer Research Fellow Heidi Knoblauch’s post on Patient Photographs and Medical Collecting. We’re hoping… Continue reading
From W.F. Hutchinson’s Under the Southern Cross : a guide to the sanitariums and other charming places in the West Indies and Spanish Main (1891). Continue reading
Have you checked out the latest items added to our collection? Here are a few highlights: Transactions of the National Dental Association, volume 19 (1918) Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-Urinary Diseases, volume 19 (1901) Letter from JJ Woodward to Bowditch on Army Medical Museum, (1876) Opera medicinalia : cum additionibus Francisci Pedemontani (1479) Il libro della consolatione delle medicine semplici solutive (1492) Colliget (1482) A surgical handbook: for the use of practitioners and students (1889)… Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to listen to CBS Evening News: Cronkite WCBS-TV (NY) & CBS TV Network – Tobacco Industry Challenges American Cancer Soc. Study (1970). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From Neuer Leitfaden für den Turn-Unterricht in den Preussischen Volkschulen (1868). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Modern food packaging regulations did not come from thin air: one of the parent pieces of legislation in the United Kingdom was the Adulteration Act of 1860. Previous to formal legislation on the subject, adulteration of foodstuffs — bread, coffee, tea, cheese, processed meats, alcohol — was a widespread problem. Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch The Gambian Case (1988). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From John Davenport’s Aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs: three essays on the powers of reproduction : with some account of the judicial “congress” as practised in France during the seventeenth century (1869). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
