“The abuse of the habit of kissing is injurious to the complexion.” (86) This somewhat baffling statement is part of the survey of the “The Face” in My Lady’s Dressing-Room, a 1892 translation of a French volume by the Baronne …
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Digital Highlight: The Grinnell Expedition
In an earlier post on this blog, we talked about the English attempts to locate Sir John Franklin, unsuccessful searcher after the Northwest Passage. Franklin left England in 1845 with two ships, the Erebus and Terror, on his second attempt to locate …
Digital Highlight: “The Nightless City”
In 1899, Joseph Ernest De Becker published an expose of the geisha quarter of the Japanese capital of Tokyo — then named Yedo — called the yoshiwara. De Becker ended up with a tome of over 500 pages, detailing the history, …
Digital Highlight: Eugenic Tracts
In the April 1912 edition of Eugenics Review, an E. Schuster wrote about a new series of pamphlets, “New Tracts for the Times”: “We welcome the publication of this series, aiming as it does at awakening ‘an enlightened social conscience’…” (94)
Digital Highlight: Medical Necrology
In 1899, David N. Patterson assembled a necrology of physicians “in Lowell and vicinity” for the North Massachusetts Medical Society. A “necrology” is technically nothing more than a list of the dead, usually those from a certain place or time. …
Digital Highlight: Doctor’s Orders
James Jackson’s 1855 Letters to a Young Physician Just Entering Upon Practice makes for great reading. The volume consists of 27 “letters” of advice from Jackson to the newly qualified medical graduate. Jackson covers a variety of subjects and starts with …
Digital Highlight: A History of Intoxication
In 1840 in Preston, in the north of England in Lancashire, Joseph Dearden published A Brief History of Ancient and Modern Tee-totalism, an apologia for the temperance movement.
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 …
Digital Highlight: Faces of the Insane
In 1843, Sir Alexander Morison published The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases, a compilation of observations and sketches of mental patients.
Digital Highlight: Life of Livingstone
David Livingstone was a nineteenth century celebrity; his travels in Africa gained him an international reputation. In 1880, William G. Blaikie published The Personal Life of David Livingstone through the Fleming H. Revell Company, “publishers of evangelical literature.”
Recent Additions to the Collection
- Puerperal fever as a private pestilence
- The contagiousness of puerperal fever
- An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague : partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the College of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807
- A history of the disease usually called typhoid fever : as it has appeared in Georgetown and its vicinity, with some reflections as to its causes and nature
- Typhoid fever and its homoeopathic treatment
- A treatise on typhoid fever and its homoeopathic treatment
- Malaria : an essay on the production and propagation of this poison, and on the nature and localities of the places by which it is produced : with an enumeration of the diseases caused by it, and of the means of preventing or diminishing them, both at home and in the naval and military service
- Observations on some of the physical, chemical, physiological and pathological phenomena of malarial fever
- A practical treatise on venereal diseases, or, Critical and experimental researches on inoculation : applied to the study of these affections : with a therapeutical summary and special formulary
- Letters on syphilis : addressed to the chief editor of l'Union médicale
Recent articles in history of medicine
- "No Struggle, No Fight, No Court Battle": The 1948 Desegregation of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine
- "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 Living Life, A Living Death: Bessie Head’s Writing as a Survival Strategy
- A Radical Proposition: The Brief but Exceptional History of the Seattle School Clinic, 1914-21
- A Short History of Medical Genetics
- A and in Early Modern Discussions of the Passions: Stoicism, Christianity and Natural History
- Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
- Alysa Levene, Martin Powell, John Stewart and Becky Taylor, Cradle to Grave: Municipal Medicine in Interwar England and Wales
- An Anatomy of Illness