The MHL Welcomes a New Content Contributor: Emory Contributes to the Medical...
The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University is pleased to contribute digitized versions of over 180 titles selected from our Historical Collection to the Medical Heritage...
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Our latest content contributor, the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, has been adding lots of great new titles to our Internet Archive collection. Check some of...
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Check out the latest titles, audio, and video that have been added to our collection! Grover Coe’s Concentrated Organic Medicines: being a practical exposition of the therapeutic properties and...
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Digital Highlight: Stars and Tongues
Page from Comstock’s “The Tongue of Time.” Joseph Comstock’s The tongue of time, and star of the states: a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities,...
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Check out some of the last titles that have been added to our collection: Gabriel Andral’s A treatise on pathological anatomy (1832) Simon Abbot’s The Southern botanic physician: being a treatise on...
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Digital Highlight: A Physician’s Biography
Title page of first volume of the third edition of “Passages.” The Passages — titled Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician when published in book form — came out originally in Blackwood’s...
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From Nicholas Culpeper’s Culpeper’s complete herbal: with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for...
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This week, have a close look at one of the lovely herbals that are part of our collection: You can turn the pages above or follow the link below to flip through the volume. Nicholas Culpeper, author of...
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Images from the Library
From William Jardine’s Mammalia (1836). As always, for more from the Medical Heritage Library, please visit our full collection!
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From Nicholas Culpeper’s Culpeper’s complete herbal with nearly four hundred medicines, made from English herbs, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to man; with rules for...
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Check out these items recently uploaded to the MHL: Anonymous, The book of exposition = Kitab al-izah fi’ilm al-nikah b-it-tamam w-al-kamal: literally translated from the Arabic with translator’s...
View ArticleDigital Highlights: The Form of the Face
The physiognomical manual of John Caspar Lavater provides rules for judging by the phsyiognomy: is someone’s nose a little to the left? perhaps their eyebrows are not quite symmetrical? or their ears...
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Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said it was revealed to him that the King’s hand would cure him: and at the first coming of King Charles II. into St. James’s Park, he kissed the King’s hand and...
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It joined our collection last year but you may have missed it: our first manuscript item, the diary of Doctor Addison Key Bell*. Key Bell was born in 1861 in Georgia, son to Doctor Addison Atterbury...
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