Digital Highlights: “The Kingdom of Evils”

Two years after the death of E.E. Southard, one of his co-workers, Mary Jarrett, published one of the volumes on social work which Southard had proposed before his death. The Kingdom of Evils was meant to be a kind of instructional chart of what Southard — and presumably Jarrett – felt were the chief problems likely to confront the social worker. Continue reading

Have You Tried It Yet?

  Grab your research plans and check out our full-text search tool! You can use the tool to search for exact phrases (“cold bath”), to search within fields (title:”cold bath”), or to look for a date range (“cold bath” date:[1870-1890]). You can also drop in keywords (“hypnotism,” “new thought,” “family medicine”) to get a sense of the range of items available in the MHL on a particular topic. If you’re using the search tool for… Continue reading

New to the MHL!

Check out these items recently uploaded to the MHL: Anonymous, The book of exposition = Kitab al-izah fi’ilm al-nikah b-it-tamam w-al-kamal: literally translated from the Arabic with translator’s foreword, numerous important notes illustrating the text, and several interesting appendices (1909). R.T. Trall, Sexual physiology and hygiene: an exposition, practical, scientific, moral, and popular, of some of the fundamental problems in sociology (1891). Iwan Bloch, The sexual life of our time in its relations to modern… Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Family Doctors

Flip through the pages above or follow this link to read Die Frau als Hausärztin : ein ärztliches Nachschlagebuch der Gesundheitspflege und Heilkunde in der Familie, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Frauen- und Kinderkrankheiten, Geburtshilfe und Kinderpflege (1911). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading