As city physician of Zurich, part of Jakob Rüff’s [or Jacob Rueff] (1500-58) responsibilities included the regulation of public midwives and their duties. In 1554, he issued a practical manual intended primarily for midwives, but which also addressed surgeons, elite women, and scholars. Two editions were released that year: one in Latin (De Conceptu et Generatione Homini) and one in German (Ein schön lustig Trostbüchle). Continue reading
…You live in the US and you’re still looking for that perfect recipe for tomorrow, look no further! Continue reading
From Edmund P. Banning’s Common sense on the mechanical pathology and treatment of chronic diseases of the male and female systems (1852).
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From Pierre Émile Launois and Pierre Roy’s Études biologiques sur les géants (1904).
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A selection from the Center for the History of Medicine’s mendicant collection
In 2003, the Center for the History of Medicine acquired a collection of about 200 pamphlets, books, and ephemera, ranging in date from the early 19th century to the 1960s, intended to be sold by the disabled. Continue reading
From Cornelis Stalpart van der Wiel’s Observationum rariorum medic. anatomic. chirurgicarum : centuriae posterioris pars prior : auctior longe, atque emendatior (1727).
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Frontispiece from “An essay on electricity, the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it,” by George Adams, 1785, shows a physician applying current generated by an “electrical machine,” to a patient’s arm.
“The Society having heard from some of their Correspondents in Germany that what they call a Vegetable Quintessence had been fired by Electricity, I take this Opportunity to acquaint you, that on Friday Evening last I succeeded, after having been disappointed in many Attempts, in setting Spirits of Wine on Fire by that Power.” Continue reading
More titles from our NEH-funded grant project are going live almost every day.
Here are some of the latest: Continue reading
Image from Giovanni Battista Nazari’s Della tramutatione metallica sogni tre (1599).
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The MHL is pleased to announce that the first titles from our new National Endowment for the Humanities-funded digitization grant are going live in our Internet Archive collection.
If you glance through the list in the “This Just In” section of our Internet Archive page, you’ll see titles like the Thomsonian Botanic Watchman, the Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal, the Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, the Aesculapian Register, and the New England Botanic Medical and Surgical Journal.
The current titles are the result of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine‘s first month of digitization but check back frequently for more titles from the Countway, the Yale Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, the Columbia Health Sciences Library, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
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