From Anne Pratt’s Wild flowers Volume II (1893). Volume I is available here.
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Digital Highlights: Christmas Recipes
I always enjoy looking through the cookbooks and home manuals in our collection and it always seems as though a holiday is a good time to point out a few.
What about the 1903 texts The White House cookbook : a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home; containing cooking, toilet, and household recipes, menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette, care of the sick, health suggestions, facts worth knowing, etc., featuring a recipe for both an English and a Christmas plum pudding.
Or this 1959 Food at Your Fingertips: In One Volume, put together by the Cookbook Committee of the Homemaking Section of the American Association of Instructors of the Blind.
There’s also the 1902 Cook book, published by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Pullman Memorial Church, Albion, New York, which starts off with Pea soup. Dr. Fluhrer’s Favorite, and Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley’s 1908 An old-world recipe book, offering The Pudding. The simply titled Myra’s cookery book (1880) provides a wealth of recipes from soup to pickles.
Did I miss out your favorite? let me know in the comments! And, as always, please do visit our full collection for more.
A/V from the Library
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Lectures and Conferences, and Panels, Oh My!
I’m seeing lots of announcements for great events going by recently. Here are just a few of the highlights:
- From the h-madness blog, a call for papers for Medicine and Modernity in the Long Nineteenth Century (St Anne’s College, Oxford, 2016)
- From the Centre for Medical Humanities blog, a call for papers for “Pasts, Presents and Futures of Medical Regeneration” Workshops (University of Leeds, January, April and June 2016)
- The Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library in Boston, Massachusetts, is offering the second of four lectures in the 2015 Colloquium on the History of Medicine and Psychiatry: “Remorse Without Regret: Experimentalism, Consent, Apology, and the Affective Economies of Biomedicine” (October 15, 2015). And check out other free public events from the Center here!
- The Royal College of Nursing is launching a new exhibit with associated lectures on Out of the Asylum: The History of Mental Health Nursing
- The Wellcome Library is holding the 2015 Fred Sanger Lecture: ‘EAT. DIE.’ The Domestication of Carcinogens in the 1980s (Lecture, Wellcome Trust, 4th November 2015)
Have we missed hearing about something you’re doing? Are you using MHL materials for a talk or a class or a conference panel? Please get in touch and let us know!
A/V from the Library
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Images from the Library
From John Marshall and J.S. Cuthbert’s Anatomy for artists (1883).
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A/V from the Library
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Images from the Library
As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
Digital Highlights: Who Wants to be a Mesmerist?
Who doesn’t want to finish up the summer with a new skill? Why not try mesmerism! Thomas Welton is here to help with his 1884 Mental Magic: “The public again, after a lapse of 20 years, being much interested in the above subject, and having no clear explanation given to them on it or how to produce for themselves far higher Phenomena of the same class, I venture to hope that this work will not be unwelcome…”
Welton not only offers step-by-step instructions on how to mesmerise, but also instructions on using the planchette, a divination tool popular among spiritualists. The planchette was something like a wheeled Ouija board, the idea being that the spiritual power would transfer through the medium and into the board through touch and then make itself known by writing on a sheet of paper laid below.
Flip through the pages below or follow this link to read Mental magic: a rationale of thought reading, and its attendant phenomena and their application to the discovery of new medicines, obscure diseases, correct delineations of character, lost persons and property, mines and prings of water, and all hidden and secret things.