…we offer you The Life Story of a Fowl (1908).
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Don’t all of us start to think a little longingly of a good health resort during the last bouts of cold weather?
From An historical and descriptive guide to Leamington Spa (1822).
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This isn’t quite the type of snow we’re expecting to get lots of in the northeastern US tomorrow — but it’s close.
John F. Hall-Edwards’ Carbon dioxide snow (1913).
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From Mary Francis Baker’s Florida Wild Flowers (1926).
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Start October Off Right!
With Visits from the world of spirits…! (1791) #PageFrights may not be official this year but we’re keeping the spirit going.
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From John Gordon’s Engravings of the skeleton of the human body (1818).
New to the MHL!
In case you haven’t been keeping up, here are some of the latest things to come into our collection:
- Thousands of Medical Officer of Health reports from all over the UK (19th and 20th centuries)
- Hygie militaire, ou l’art de guérir aux armées, poëme en quatre chants; suivi des loisirs d’un militaire dans la campagne de 1809 (1819)
- A blind man’s offering (1850)
- The Institutions of the Practice of Medicine Delivered in a Course of Lectures by Jo. Baptis Burserius de Kanifeld (1806) (And don’t miss volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, and volume 5!)
- The Zincali; or, an account of the Gypsies of Spain. With an original collection of their songs and poetry (1842)
- Incidents of missionary enterprise… (1846)
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From William Wood’s Illustrations of the Linnaean genera of insects (1821). (Check out the full book for beautiful illustrations of butterflies, dragonflies, and more!)