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Attention AAHM Attendees!

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You are invited to a cocktail hour to meet and chat with representatives of the Medical Heritage Library.

We will be meeting informally on April 26th at 5 pm at The Yards, the hotel bar at Baltimore’s Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards, at the start of the annual meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM).

We hope to see you at 5 PM on April 26th at The Yard at the Baltimore Marriott!

Medical Heritage Library Awarded NEH Grant for Digitization of Historical Medical Journals

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American Journal of Insanity, v. 1, n. 1, 1844

The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), through the Open Knowledge Commons (OKC), has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a two-year project to digitize and preserve historical American medical journals. The digitized journals will be made freely available to researchers through the Medical Heritage Library collection in the Internet Archive. Continue reading

BIU Sante Connects European Users to the MHL

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Gérard de Lairesse’s original drawing for Govert Bidloo’s Anatomia humani corporis … (Amsterdam, 1685). Courtesy of the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé.

The Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé (BIU Santé) in Paris, the largest medical library in France with important history of medicine collections and programs, is connecting its users to the Medical Heritage Library by harvesting MHL’s metadata from Internet Archive to allow searching of its content. Continue reading

Mesmerism

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Title page of James Esdaile's "The Introduction of Mesmerism."

Included in portion of Yale University’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Library anesthesia collection uploaded to the MHL, is an intriguing selection of materials regarding mesmerism in medicine, or the act of putting patients in a hypnotic state before a medical procedure and forgoing the use of anesthesia. Continue reading

Lightning Round Presentation on the MHL: Lori Jahnke and Kathryn Hammond-Baker

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On September 27, 2011, the Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors held a meeting at the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C. Two of the MHL’s partners, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine and the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, sent representatives.

Lori Jahnke and Kathryn Hammond-Baker did a short ‘lightning round’ presentation about the work the MHL is doing with an National Endowment for the Humanities start-up grant.

To see videos from other presenters, check out this full list from the NEH.

As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!

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