From Elisha Kent Kane’s The United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin : a personal narrative (1857). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
The American Instructor promises to teach a little bit of everything except, perhaps, how to have a successful marriage: The American instructor, or, Young man’s best companion : containing, spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published ; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master ; instructions to write variety of hands … ; how to write letters on business or friendship ; forms… Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch Neuromuscular block (1956). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
From Samuel D. Gross’s Autobiography of Samuel D. Gross, M. D., with reminiscences of his times and contemporaries (1893). Continue reading
After noticing the Poetical cook-book while putting together our new title round-up earlier in the week, I couldn’t resist having a flip through the pages. Perhaps I might find a guaranteed mnemonic for how to cook brown rice: a thing I never can recall when I need to. Published in 1864 by Maria J. Moss, the volume opens with a brief disclaimer by the author. Written originally as a ‘pastime,’ she feels the pages have received… Continue reading
Have you checked out the latest additions to the MHL? We have Naval oral histories and lots of cookbooks this week! Stories from U.S. Naval Hospital Guam Part 1 “Marines Love Their Corpsman” – An Exclusive Interview with Lt. General Snowden (you can find Part 2 and Part 3 here, too!) High-class Cookery Recipes: as taught in the school (1885) A poetical cookbook (1864) (if “high-class” doesn’t do it for you!) Hand-book of practical cookery, for… Continue reading
From Ernest Coyecque’s L’Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, au moyen age : histoire et documents (1889). Continue reading
Click “play” above or follow this link to watch The Wounds That Never Heal (1997). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
On Saturday, May 10, 2014 members of the Private Practices, Public Health project team hosted a lunch session at the 2014 annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in Chicago. The session, Negotiating Access to Patient Related Materials: A Conversation between Archivists and Historians, represents efforts by the Medical Heritage Library, Harvard Medical School, and Johns Hopkins University to develop best practices for archivists to speed access to patient-related and patient-generated records that are informed by the… Continue reading
From Navy Department BUMED News Letter Vol. 4, No. 4, August 18, 1944 (1944). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection! Continue reading
