Frontispiece: “Barbers Hall, Monkwell Street, London” from “The Barbers’ Company.”
The Barbers’ Company is a brief monograph on the combined history of barbering and surgery from ancient Greece through the mid-nineteenth century. Continue reading
The MHL is pleased to announce that the first titles from our new National Endowment for the Humanities-funded digitization grant are going live in our Internet Archive collection.
If you glance through the list in the “This Just In” section of our Internet Archive page, you’ll see titles like the Thomsonian Botanic Watchman, the Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal, the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, the Aesculapian Register, and the New England Botanic Medical and Surgical Journal.
The current titles are the result of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine‘s first month of digitization but check back frequently for more titles from the Countway, the Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, the Columbia Health Sciences Library, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Dedication from “The Rappers.”
Table-rapping, table-turning, spirit writing, and other forms of communication with “another world” were common and popular forms of spiritualistic activity in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Some consider that the rapping done by the Fox sisters in the late 1840s as the beginning of the spiritualist movement in the United States. The girls later admitted that their “spirit communication” was fraudulent but by that time — the 1880s — the admission had little effect: the movement was an independent thing. Continue reading
Plate from “Beiträge zur Geburtskunde und Gynaekologie…”
We’re pleased to announce that the Medical Heritage Library collection on the Internet Archive has topped 40,000 items. As of this writing, we are, in fact, over 43,000! Continue reading
From Carl G.W. Vollmer’s Magnetismus und Mesmerismus, oder Physische und geistige Kräfte der Natur (1862).
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
We’ve been doing a little housekeeping on our Tools for Digital Research page. Continue reading
From the Ralston Health Club’s Companion book of complete membership in the Ralston Health Club : in seventeen departments ; being a complete study of the natural causes and the natural cures of disease, without medicines or apparatus of any kind (1895).
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Reproduction of papyrus page from "History of Medicine."
The University of Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history as a school of medicine. In 1900, they published a History of Medicine: Syllabus and Specimen Extracts, combining what we would think of now as a schedule of lectures with the primary source documents (in modern terms) to be used and discussed in the class. Continue reading
From Matthieu Orfila’s Leçons faisant partie du cours de médecine légale (1821).
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