The Internet Archive is closed today to protest SOPA. This means, of course, that MHL content is unavailable until January 19th. For more on the Internet Archive’s action, see the IA blog.
Tag Archive: Internet Archive
Lamar Soutter Library Contributes Rare Books to Online Medical Heritage Library
We are pleased to announce the addition of 286 classic medical rare books from the Lamar Soutter Library, University of Massachusetts Medical School, to the Medical Heritage Library (MHL)’s holdings in the Internet Archive. The Lamar Soutter Library is the …
National Library of Medicine Releases “Medicine in the Americas,” Featuring Digitized Versions of American Medical Books Dating Back to 1745
The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of NIH, announces the release of Medicine in the Americas. A digital resource encompassing over 350 early American printed books, Medicine in the Americas makes freely available original …
Historic New Orleans
Via a recent posting to the Caduceus-L listserv, we learn that the Rudolph Matas Library of Tulane University is announcing the opening of its online collection of New Orleans Charity Hospital Reports. Available through the Internet Archive, the Rudolph Matas website, …
Searching the MHL (II)
If you happen to know that you’re looking for a title from a particular contributor to the MHL — or perhaps you want to restrict your search so that you only get results from a library close to you or …
Searching the Archive (II)
The last formal way of searching the Internet Archive, whether for content from the Medical Heritage Library or other collections, is via the advanced search function. As you can see, advanced search allows you to construct quite a complex search. …
Searching the Archive (I)
In our last post about searching, we talked about how to look through items specifically in the MHL collections and through the MHL’s Internet Archive website. But you might also be looking for items with, so to speak, a broader …
Searching the MHL (I)
There are several different ways you can access titles in the Medical Heritage Library through our Internet Archive website. Our homepage features a variety of search functions: you can use the general Internet Archive search at the top of the …
MHL Annual Progress Report
Over the past twelve months, the MHL has made progress on a number of fronts. As of this writing, 9,245 monographs have been uploaded to the Internet Archive (IA); nearly 5,000 more have been digitized and are awaiting processing and …
The Incredible, Embeddable Book
At the end of 2010, the team at the Internet Archive premiered a new BookReader. The new Reader has several nice new features, including a ReadAloud option, improved shareability, and a wider range of navigation options. The new BookReader can …
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