Category: Digital Highlights

Our partners at the M C Migel Memorial Collection and Library have uploaded a ton of new material related to guide dogs for the visually impaired. Check out all the titles here!

With the start of the new school year rapidly approaching — and even just past in some places! — HC Cameron’s 1923 The Nervous Child seemed like an appropriate pick for the week:

Check it out: Harvey Cushing’s 1943 Bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius:

Check out Burnett’s floral handbook (1879): they’ll sell you ‘cocoaine’ for your hair and tell you what that latest bouquet from your ladylove means.

The China Medical Missionary Journal, starting with its inaugural issue in 1887:

Check out all the issues in our collection here.

If you feel like a bit of a challenge this 4th of July, why not try Johann Christian Fritsch’s 1700 work?

Check out this beautiful 1493 volume in German: “A popular compendium of useful information for physical and spiritual health. Includes remedies, bloodletting and astrological advice, symptoms of impending death and how to spiritually prepare for it.”

Check out one of the latest additions to our collection, a 1493 Regimen sanitatis Salerni:

Not feeling up to Latin today? No problem: try this 1871 dual-language edition!

Check out this beautiful medieval herbal!

After the long, bright, hot vacation weekend in the US, I thought perhaps this 1890 volume on sunburn was appropriate to highlight!