This is a brief mid-week post to remind you of two upcoming things. 1. The MHL full-text search will be unavailable between October 24th and October 26th (this weekend) due to a hardware change-over at Harvard. The full collection will be available as usual via the Internet Archive. This will only affect the full-text search and the search should be back in operation on Monday morning. 2. The countdown to the close of the 2014 User… Continue reading
From Sir Patrick Manson’s Tropical diseases: a manual of diseases of warm climates (1914). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
We’re well into October now — in the United States, we’re looking forward at November and December which, for many of us, involve a bout of cooking unlike anything seen in the rest of the year. To help you out with this, we offer up this handy guide. Click through the pages of A.T. Simmons’ and Ernest Stenhouse’s The science of common life (1912). And if you haven’t done it yet, please take five minutes out… Continue reading
The MHL was kind enough to extend an invitation to guest-post regarding my usage of the MHL in the preparation of The Second Book. In this post, then, I will try to describe The Second Book as best I can, so as to frame the significance of the MHL’s holdings and resources for my work, as well as to describe specifically how I use the MHL in my daily research. Okay, sometimes the research is… Continue reading
From volume 12, number 2 of The Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1907). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at Queen Mary’s University, London, joined the MHL in 2013; this fall, they are celebrating their 21st birthday. The research group, funded by the Wellcome Trust, was set up in 1990 to develop and strengthen links between members of the biomedical research community and medical historians. Continue reading
Previously a member of the MHL’s Governance Group, Michelle DiMeo is now the newest member of the MHL’s Scholarly Advisory Committee. Last month, Michelle became Curator of Digital Collections at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, where she will be overseeing the creation of CHF’s first digital repository and online collection. Continue reading
From Russian Rose Balm (1865). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
Sidney and Beatrice Webb were pioneer social researchers in England at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. They published indefatigably, both together and separately, to create an impressive historical and analytical body of material, including multiple volumes on English legal history, the poor law, and modern sociological topics. Continue reading
The Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, both MHL partners, are in the final stages of the Private Practices, Public Health: Privacy-Aware Processing to Maximize Access to Health Collections grant funded by the the Council for Library and Information Resources’Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program. Multiple collections at both institutions have been processed under this grant… Continue reading
