About Author: Donna Hirst

Posts by Donna Hirst

0

Annual R. Palmer Howard Dinner : Spot Ward, Crazy Sally, and the Chevalier Taylor: Three Medical Quacks in 18th Century Britain

By
Donna Hirst
– April 1, 2012Posted in: Lectures and Discussions, Rare Book Room

 

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society announces the R. Palmer Howard Dinner for 2012, Friday, April 13, 2012, 6:00-9:30. 

Lynda Payne, prof. in Medical Humanities & Bioethics, and History, University of Missouri Kansas City will speak on “Spot Ward, Crazy Sally, and the Chevalier Taylor:  Three Medical Quacks in Eighteenth-Century Britain”. 

Reception, dinner and lecture will be at the Sheraton Hotel.  Make your reservations now but no later than April 6 with  Donna Sabin, 319-335-6706, donna-sabin@uiowa.edu
Online form (print & mail): http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/histmed/index.html.  Seats for the lecture only will be available.

0

The Herbals: Sources of Health and Beauty – Open House

By
Donna Hirst
– March 17, 2012Posted in: Exhibits, Lectures and Discussions, Rare Book Room

The History of Medicine Society and the University Libraries invite you to an Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room.

The Herbals: Sources of Health and Beauty

Thursday, March 22, 2012, 4:00-7:30

Over 30 Herbals including facsimiles of medieval manuscripts, classic herbals from the 17th and 18 centuries, and 19th century reference books and manuals will be on display.  There will also be a special exhibit on conservation and restoration techniques used on the 17th century Mattioli.

0

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, March 2012

By
Donna Hirst
– March 1, 2012Posted in: Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room

AL-MAJUSI ‘ALI IBN AL-’ABBAS (d. 994). Liber totius medicine necessaria continens quem . . .  1523.

Haly Abbas, as he was known in the Latin west, was a native of Ahwaz in southwestern Persia and, in all probability, studied medicine at nearby Jundi-Shapur. He served as court physician to the Buyid ruler ‘Adud ad-Dawlah (d. 983) in Baghdad. This book’s clear, direct style, good organization, completeness, and systematic description of contemporary medical knowledge and thought undoubtedly contributed to its becoming the standard medical text until Avicenna’s Canon appeared a century later.

0

Eating Books

By
Donna Hirst
– February 9, 2012Posted in: Lectures and Discussions, Rare Book Room

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear:  Adam Hooks, Asst. Professor, Dept. of English, speaking on: Eating Books, Thurs., February 23, 2012, 5:30-6:30, Room 401 Hardin Library.  “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”  Francis Bacon.

Medical HOMS Hooke 2 12 newsletter

 

0

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, February 2012

By
Donna Hirst
– February 7, 2012Posted in: Uncategorized

MOTONORI TAKI (1732-1801). Kokei saikyuho [Emergency remedies for the benefit of the people]. 1789.

The author was a court physician famous in the annals of Japanese medicine. He was also known as Rankei Taki and Gentoku Tamba, combinations of his professional and personal names. Taki prepared this early Japanese home medical adviser at the request of the shogun Iyeharu in order to help disseminate medical knowledge among the common people. The three-volume set contains information on how to remedy maladies of various kinds and meet emergencies without the help of a physician. The work is illustrated with more than one hundred and thirty woodcuts of plants, animals, fish, and insects with medicinal uses, as well as illustrations of acupuncture sites, methods of reducing fractures, anatomical details, etc.

 

0

Frank Scamman to speak on History of Anesthesia in the Veterans Administration

By
Donna Hirst
– January 12, 2012Posted in: Lectures and Discussions, Rare Book Room

The History of Medicine Society invites you to hear Frank Scamman, MD, Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Iowa,  speak on “History of Anesthesia in the Veterans Administration”.   Thursday, January 26, 2012,  5:30-6:30.

0

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, January, 2012

By
Donna Hirst
– January 3, 2012Posted in: Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room, Uncategorized

Nicolaas Tulp (1593-1664). Observationes medicae. 1652.

Along with other distinguished anatomists in Holland, Tulp left a rich legacy of anatomical discoveries.  His name is current in the eponym”Tulp’s valve” (the ileocecal valve).  This book contains the first descriptions of beri-beri and of what is probably diphtheria.  Tulp described the condition we know as migraine, the devastating effects to the lungs caused by tobacco smoking, and revealed an understanding of human phychology in a description of the placebo effect.

 

January, 2012

0

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, Dec 2011

By
Donna Hirst
– December 2, 2011Posted in: Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room

ALESSANDRO PASCOLI (1669-1757). Il corpoumano. Perugia: Pe’l Costantini, 1700.

A native of Perugia in central Italy, Pascoli initially practiced medicine in his natal city and then lectured in philosophy and anatomy at the university.  Pope Clement XI appointed him professor of anatomy in Rome.  He performed public dissections similar to his colleague and competitor Vesalius.  His metaphysical, medical and mathematics treatises form a coherent thought and methodology and are evidence that demonstrate the vitality of Italian culture and philos0phy in the seventeenth century.

0

Matthew Gambino to speak on These Strangers within our Gates

By
Donna Hirst
– November 30, 2011Posted in: Lectures and Discussions, Rare Book Room

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear Matthew Gambino speak on “These Strangers within our gates: Race, Psychiatry, and Mental Illness in Washington, D.C., 1900-1940″. 

Thursday, Dec. 1, 5:30-6:30 in Room 401 of the Hardin Library.

In the early decades of the 20th century, William Alanson White and his medical staff at St Elizabeths Hospital launched an ambitious program for psychiatry dedicated to the reconstruction of mentally-ill Americans for poor citizenship.  The racist assumptions beneath this program led most physicians to expect little more than deference, dependence and common labor from the black patients.  Acutely aware of the injustices they faced, black men and women rejected elements of the hospital’s regimen, simultaneously rejecting a social vision that consigned them to the margins of US civic life.

0

Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, November, 2011

By
Donna Hirst
– November 28, 2011Posted in: Miscellaneous, Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room

JAKOB RÜFF (1500-1558). De conceptu et generatione hominis.

Lithotomost, surgeon, obstetrician and playwright, Ruff settled in Zurich about 1525 where he served as town physician and taught at the university.  Ruff published his book in both German and Latin in 1554.  A comprehensive handbook, the treatise opens with a discussion of conception, development, and nutrition of the fetus.  The anatomy of the uterus and a set of precepts for pregnant women are followed by a section on parturition including care of the mother and infant.

 

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »