“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 …
Tag Archive: topics
Topics selected for digitization in 2010-2011
The Medical Heritage Library partners worked together during June and July 2009 to identify collection strengths and complementary subject areas for digitization. Works selected for scanning include such topics such as anesthesia, popular medicine and homeopathy, medical jurisprudence and general public health, with a core focus on the intersection of medicine and society.
Recent Additions to the Collection
- Navy Medicine 1970 06
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 5 May 1970
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 4 April 1970
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 3 March 1970
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 2 February 1970
- Navy Medical Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 1 January 1970
- U.S. Navy Medicine Vol. 58 No. 6 December 1971
- U.S. Navy Medicine Vol. 58 No. 5 November 1971
- Navy and Marine Corps Medical News April 2013
- Navy and Marine Corps Medical News March 2013
Recent articles in history of medicine
- "An Army of Reformed Drunkards and Clergymen": The Medicalization of Habitual Drunkenness, 1857-1910
- "Breaking the Chain of Poverty": Family Planning, Community Involvement, and the Population Council/Office of Economic Opportunity Alliance
- "No Struggle, No Fight, No Court Battle": The 1948 Desegregation of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine
- "Our Sickness Record Is a National Disgrace": Adelle Davis, Nutritional Determinism, and the Anxious 1970s
- "Skinless Wonders": Body Worlds and the Victorian Freak Show
- "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 constant irritation to the townspeople'? Local, Regional and National Politics and London's County Asylums at Epsom
- 'Go and see Nell; She'll put you right': The Wisewoman and Working-Class Health Care in Early Twentieth-century Lancashire
- 'The dangers attending these conditions are evident': Public Health and the Working Environment of Lancashire Textile Communities, c.1870-1939
