Digital Highlights: Elizabeth Packard Ware, Asylum Activist

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In 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (see references in the Alabama Law Review and Project Muse) was committed to an Illinois insane asylum by her husband, with the assistance of a personal friend who was a physician. Packard claimed that she had been incarcerated unjustly and, after three years of work, managed to have herself released, having convinced the authorities of her sanity (the judge’s final decision in the case is said to have taken less than ten minutes to make!) Upon returning… Continue reading

The MHL Welcomes a New Content Contributor: University of Toronto Dentistry Library

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379 items from the University of Toronto H.R. Abbot Memorial Library and Dentistry Library have been added to the Medical Heritage Library. The collection includes items such as Dentistry in the Bible and Talmud, The Teeth, and a large number of periodicals, including Oral Health  and The Dental Advertiser. The Dentistry Library is formally known as the H.R. Abbott Memorial Library and the Dentistry Library, University of Toronto (UofT). The Memorial library was established in 1924, upon… Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Oral Histories

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The United States Navy Bureau of Medical History Office has made a number of transcripts and recordings of oral histories available through the Medical Heritage Library. Interviews were conducted with through the 1990s and 2000s with doctors, nurses, corpsmen, and NCOs who had been involved in a variety of historical events throughout the 20th century. Joseph Brennan of the 6th Naval Beach Battalion, was present at the D-Day Normandy beach landings. Doctor Walter Burwell served… Continue reading

The MHL Welcomes New Content Contributor: The University of Illinois Chicago Library of the Health Sciences

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The University of Illinois Chicago recently added 16 items to the Medical Heritage Library’s collection. The titles include Plexus, the official publication of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Medical Department of the University of Illinois at the end of the 19th century. Other titles include The Swedish Covenant Hospital and Home of Mercy, and the Medical and dental colleges of the west : historical and biographical: Chicago as edited by H.G. Cutler in 1896, a valuable resource for… Continue reading

BUMED’s historians upload 2000th item to Medical Heritage Library

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After slightly more than a year of uploading material to the Medical Heritage Library, the US Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery’s 2000th item appeared online today (May 19). A Series of Reports to the Nursing Division of the activities of the Nurse Corps Officers serving aboard the U.S. Naval Hospital in the Repose is now easily available for research. The reports from CDRs Angelica Vitillo and M.T. Kovacevich back to Captain Ruth Erickson, Director of the… Continue reading