In light of the maintenance going on at the Internet Archive which is making access to the MHL collections a little unpredictable, check out these past features in our Digital Highlights series! Continue reading
From Ernst Christoph Schultz and Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon’s Bemerkungen über einen monstreusen Canarien-Vogel (1780).
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From Walter Alden’s The human eye : its use and abuse, a popular treatise on far, near and impaired sight, and the methods of preservation by the proper use of spectacles and other acknowledged aids of vision (1866).
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From Hereward Carrington’s Higher psychical development (Yoga philosophy) : an outline of the secret Hindu teachings (1920).
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Frontispiece photograph of William Upshaw.
Narratives from the sickbed have been popular for centuries. In the nineteenth century, a particular style of sickroom story was popular; it can be loosely described as the “angel in the house” story. This phrase is often used to describe stories that center around women such as Susan Coolidge’s 1870s What Katy Did but it can be stretched to cover narratives with a male protagonist and William David Upshaw’s 1903 “Earnest Willie” or Echoes from a Recluse seems to check the boxes. Continue reading
Gallery of the Warren Anatomical Museum (1906-1999), The Warren Anatomical Museum of Harvard Medical School and the Arrangement of its Collection, 1911, Warren Anatomical Museum in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Recently digitized works in the Medical Heritage Library have created a window into the historical and modern collections of Harvard Medical School’s Warren Anatomical Museum. Digital surrogates of six books and pamphlets, published between 1835 and 1911, have been made available through the efforts of the Center for the History of Medicine and the National Library of Medicine. Continue reading
From Louisa S. Cook’s Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation : an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887).
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From James Birch Sharpe’s Elements of anatomy : designed for the use of students in the fine arts (1818).
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As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
The rise of pediatrics as a specialty in the United States was in part a response to the devastating infant and child mortality due to unsanitary living conditions, contaminated milk, and inadequate and crowded housing, among many other problems. Continue reading
