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Images from the Library
From J.B. Sarlandière’s Mémoires sur l’electro-puncture, considérée comme moyen nouveau de traiter efficacement la goutte, les rheumatismes et les affections nerveuses, sur l’emploi du moxa...
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Digital Highlights: Elizabeth Packard Ware, Asylum Activist
Title page from Mrs. Packard’s first volume. In 1860, Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (see references in the Alabama Law Review and Project Muse) was committed to an Illinois insane asylum by her...
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Have you checked out the latest items added to our collection? Here are a few highlights: Transactions of the National Dental Association, volume 19 (1918) Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-Urinary...
View ArticleOur Reading List
We can’t hope to be as exhaustive as Whewell’s Ghost or The History Carnival, but all this talk of going back to school has us thinking in reading lists. Here’s some of what we’re looking at online...
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Images from the Library
From Georges Crouigneau’s Promenades d’un médecin à travers l’Exposition (souvenirs de 1889) (1890). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
View ArticleYear One of “Expanding the Medical Heritage Library” Is Complete!
We have just submitted our first year report on our second National Endowment for the Humanities-funded grant, “Expanding the Medical Heritage Library: Preserving and Providing Online Access to...
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Research travel grant for Yale’s Cushing/Whitney Medical Historical Library
Ferenc Gyorgyey, 1979, courtesy of Yale Medicine. The Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its eighth annual Ferenc...
View ArticleDigital Highlights: Every day, in every way…
If you’re still working on those New Year’s resolutions, perhaps today’s title can help! Emile Coué’s “formula” might be considered one of the originals in the ‘self-help’ genre. His theory worked...
View ArticleDigital Highlights: Disquisitions on Ancient Medicine
What we might now call “history of medicine,” Richard Millar in 1811 thought of calling “medical archaeology.” His work in the field was inspired by “some singular traits” he felt he had discovered in...
View ArticleDigital Highlights: Getting Ready for All Hallows
Halloween is only a week away, so in preparation, here are some of the texts we can offer on the ghostly and ghastly. Alfred Roffe’s 1851 An essay upon the ghost-belief of Shakespeare. John Henry...
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#PageFrights Is Here!
So lets start with this charming figure from JH Brown’s 1865 Spectropia; or, Surprising spectral illusions. Showing ghosts everywhere, and of any colour.
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Deaf Education- Celebrating the legacy of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
~This post courtesy Katie Healey and Caroline Lieffers, doctoral students in Yale’s Program for the History of Science and Medicine, with additions by Melissa Grafe, John R. Bumstead Librarian for...
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Yale Medicine Goes to War, 1917
A new exhibition from Medical Heritage Library partner Yale University entitled “Yale Medicine Goes to War, 1917″ commemorates America’s entry into the war at the local level. From mobilizing a “first...
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Founding Gallaudet: Origins and Activism
~This post courtesy of Katie Healey and Caroline Lieffers, doctoral students in Yale’s Program for the History of Science and Medicine, with additions by Melissa Grafe, John R. Bumstead Librarian for...
View ArticleYale Medicine Goes to War
Melissa Grafe, current co-chair of the MHL Governance Committee and John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, participated in two video presentations for...
View ArticleMedicine in World War I Online Exhibit
In commemoration of the centennial of America’s entry into World War I in April 1917 through to the Armistice in November 1918, partner institutions contributing to the Medical Heritage Library have...
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Images from the Library
From William Snowdon Hedley’s Therapeutic electricity and practical muscle testing (1900).
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Images from the Library
It’s a grey day here in Boston on this first posting Monday of 2018, so I thought to brighten it up a bit with one of my favorite herbals. This is from an 1852 reprint of Culpeper’s complete herbal :...
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Ferenc Gyorgyey Research Travel Grant
~This post is courtesy Melissa Grafe, Head of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Historical Library at Yale University. The Medical Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney...
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Now online, decades of medical student theses available for download
~This story is courtesy Jenny Blair and Yale Medicine. In the spring of 1952, Jocelyn Malkin, M.D. ’52, completed her student thesis on laryngeal cancer. Using punch cards, Malkin encoded clinical...
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