Portrait of Eliza Lyman from "The Coming Woman."
In the past few weeks, some wonderful 19th century books on home health care and what might be loosely called “advice manuals,” particularly for women, have come into our collection.
Here are a few highlights… 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
Have you checked out what the MHL’s latest additions are? There are a couple of ways you can see what’s new to our collection. Continue reading
Page from Dr. Townsend's "Hay Fever, Asthma, and Chronic Catarrh."
With the approach of what seems like an extremely early spring — particularly in the Northeast — many of us are checking the expiry dates on our allergy medications.
According to Dr. M.M. Townsend, however, all we need is a pint or four-ounce bottle of his hay fever, allergy, and catarrh remedy to have a sneeze-free season: “…this Remedy, it is believed, will relieve every case.” (5) Continue reading
Title page from "My Lady's Dressing-Room."
“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 Staffe on personal care and beauty for women. Harriet Hubbard Ayer writes in her introduction that she has “translated and adapted [the original French] for the women of America.” (iii) Continue reading
From Edouard Fournier’s Histoire des Enseignes de Paris (1884).
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Colored plate from De Becker's "The Nightless City."
In 1899, Joseph Ernest De Becker published an expose of the geisha quarter of the Japanese capital of Tokyo — then named Yedo — called the yoshiwara. De Becker ended up with a tome of over 500 pages, detailing the history, architecture, and customs of the quarter and including several beautiful color prints and many illustrations in black and white. 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
From Thomas Forster’s Annals of Some Remarkable Aerial and Alpine Voyages… (1832).
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
From Henry S. Munro’s Handbook of Suggestive Therapeutics (1911).
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
