Digital Highlights: It’s That Time of Year Again…

Check out some original sources on the ‘flu! Flip through the pages above or follow this link to go to Worth B. Daniels’ An account of the origin, symptoms, and cure of the influenza or epidemic catarrh : with some hints respecting common colds and incipient pulmonary consumption (1823). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!   Continue reading

Tracing the Footsteps of a Giant

Staring up at the 76 boxes in Barbara Starfield’s collection occupying an entire wall of shelving—or 91 cubic feet—in the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, I immediately wondered how I would ever be able to piece together the life’s work of a world-renowned researcher and academic.  Continue reading