From Ales Hrdlicka’s Physiological and Medical Observations Among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico (1908). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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Digital Highlight: Pioneer Doctor
Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair, born in Missouri in 1840, published her life-story in 1906, writing down her experiences of life with pioneering parents and her medical education as one of the first women to aim for a medical degree. She was …
Images from the Library
From William Atkinson’s The Orientation of Buildings; or, Planning for Sunlight (1912). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Digital Highlight: Healthy Plays
Page from “The Pied Piper of Health.” In 1920, a contest was held in New York City under the guidance of the Child Health Organization to present plays supporting the “Milk and Child Health Campaign.” The resultant plays were donated by …
Digital Highlight: The Biography of a Disease
In the early years of the twentieth century, diseases were being re-studied in light of advances in the fields of bacteriology, virology, and pathology. S. Burt Wolbach, at the time pathologist at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Boston …
Digital Highlight: Physical and Emotional
The experience of having a great meal disturbed by an argument is a common one and a headache can make a work-day seem like it lasts 10 times as long. In 1915, Walter B. Cannon wrote Bodily Changes in Pain, …
Digital Highlight: Food and Fitness
Published in 1914, Orison Swett Marden’s Keeping Fit is a part-handbook, part-sermon, and part-”to do” list. Marden himself was a leading exponent of “New Thought” in the late 19th and early 20th century. “New Thought” believers argued that thought had a …
Digital Highlight: Diseases of Genius
According to Thomas Middleton Stuart’s 1819 essay on Genius and Its Diseases there are four reasons for mental genius to become disordered: inactivity, imperfection, artificial excitement, and excessive exercise. Having cited such examples for genius as Newton, Franklin, and Homer, …
Digital Highlight: Health and Safety, 1915
In 1915, The Health Series of Physiology and Hygiene published the latest in its series, Making the Most of Life, written by M.V. O’Shea and J.H. Kellogg. O’Shea was a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin; Kellogg was …
Digital Highlight: Defoe and Plague
Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year is a factitious account of 1664-1665 in England, a period when mainland Britain experienced some of its worst outbreaks of plague infection. Hot, dry weather and the behavior of English citizens, particularly those …
Recent articles in history of medicine
- "Confinement of the Higher Orders": The Social Role of Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, c. 1820-60
- "Spitting Is Dangerous, Indecent, and against the Law!" Legislating Health Behavior during the American Tuberculosis Crusade
- "They Increase in Beauty and Elegance": Transforming Cadavers and the Epistemology of Dissection in Early Nineteenth-Century American Medical Education
- A Radical Proposition: The Brief but Exceptional History of the Seattle School Clinic, 1914-21
- A Short History of Medical Genetics
- Alienists, Attendants and the Containment of Suicide in Public Lunatic Asylums, 1845-1890
- Arthur W. Frank’s: Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology
- Bacteriology in the Service of Sanitation: The Factory Environment and the Regulation of Industrial Anthrax in Late-Victorian Britain
- Biological Aging and Social Characteristics: Gerontology, the Baltimore City Hospitals, and the National Institutes of Health
- Birth Attendants and Midwifery Practice in Early Twentieth-century Derbyshire