From John Read’s A Description of Read’s Patent Syringe… (1830). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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From Probadas Flores (undated). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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From Brinton and Napheys’ The Laws of Health in Relation to the Human Form (1870). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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From Edouard Fournier’s Histoire des Enseignes de Paris (1884). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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From the Ernst Leitz Firm’s Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus (1896). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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From the War Department’s When You Go Home (1918?). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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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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From Thomas Woolnoth’s The Study of the Human Face (1865.) As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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From Thomas Forster’s Annals of Some Remarkable Aerial and Alpine Voyages… (1832). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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From Henry S. Munro’s Handbook of Suggestive Therapeutics (1911). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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