Gérard de Lairesse’s original drawing for Govert Bidloo’s Anatomia humani corporis … (Amsterdam, 1685). Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé.
The Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé (BIU Santé) in Paris, the largest medical library in France with important history of medicine collections and programs, is connecting its users to the Medical Heritage Library by harvesting MHL’s metadata from Internet Archive to allow searching of its content. Continue reading
Title page of James Esdaile's "The Introduction of Mesmerism."
Included in portion of Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library anesthesia collection uploaded to the MHL, is an intriguing selection of materials regarding mesmerism in medicine, or the act of putting patients in a hypnotic state before a medical procedure and forgoing the use of anesthesia. Continue reading
Welcome to midweek! Here are some of the stories that have come across our desks here at the MHL recently… Continue reading
Welcome to midweek! Here are some stories that have come across our desks here at the MHL lately…. Continue reading
One of the partners in the MHL, Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, is offering the fifth annual Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Award for use of the historical library. The historical library “holds one of the country’s largest collections of rare medical books, journals, prints, photographs, and pamphlets” and offers researchers access to the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, Culpeper, Haller, Priestley, and S. Weir Mitchell among others. Continue reading
Welcome to midweek! Here are some stories that have come across our desks recently at the MHL… Continue reading
Welcome to midweek! Here are some stories that have come across our desks here at the MHL recently… Continue reading
Portrait of Dorothea Lynde Dix, from NLM’s Images from the History of Medicine database.
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) was one of the most influential lay social reformers to focus on the care and treatment of the mentally ill in 19th-century America. After starting a career as a school teacher in Massachusetts, Dix became aware of the abject conditions under which mentally ill persons in the state were held and treated: many of them kept restrained in dank prisons with little or no clothing, heat, or treatment. Campaigning first in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and then around the country, she approached numerous private donors, state legislatures and the US Congress to make funding available to build humane facilities for the mentally ill. Continue reading
And here are some recent news stories from the world of text digitization and digital humanities that have come across the MHL feeds… Continue reading
