Digital Highlights: The Hahnemannian Monthly

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This Friday, check out one of our journals: This volume of the Hahnemannian Monthly includes, among other things including articles on the therapeutic use of vinegar, a full specimen of the human cerebro-spinal nervous system. The illustration is from the leading article in the February 1889 issue, “A New Preparation of the Nervous System,” by. A.R. Thomas, MD, Philadelphia. The cadaver used was that of a 35-year old female; Dr. Weaver wanted to prepare the cadaver in… Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Anatomischer Atlas für Studierende und Ärzte

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This week, check out one of our anatomy texts: You can click through the pages above or follow this link to see Carl Toldt and Alois Dalla Rosa’s Anatomischer Atlas für Studierende und Ärzte (1908). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!   Continue reading

Digital Highlights: Culpeper’s Complete Herbal

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This week, have a close look at one of the lovely herbals that are part of our collection: You can turn the pages above or follow the link below to flip through the volume. Nicholas Culpeper, author of Culpeper’s complete herbal: with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for compuounding them: also, directions for making syrups, ointments, &c was a… Continue reading