The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to a lecture by Kirilka Stavrena, Professor of English at Cornell College. Attracted to Ill Humors, or What Hope for Shakespeare’s Cachexic Couples? Professor Stavrena will explore the relationships of Hamlet and Ophelia from Hamlet and Katherina and Petruchio from The Taming of the Shrew. Thursday,Continue reading “Lecture: Attracted to Ill Humors, or What Hope for Shakespeare’s Cachexic Couples? | Thurs., May 18, 5:30pm”
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Shakespeare and Medicine @Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Hardin Library is examining medicine through the eyes of William Shakespeare this month. Currently on display on Hardin’s 3rd floor is the National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit, “And There’s the Humor of It:” Shakespeare and the Four Humors. In 16th century England, four bodily humors were thought to influence physical and mental health. FourContinue reading “Shakespeare and Medicine @Hardin Library for the Health Sciences”
Leslie Miller | The Resurrection Trade: Finding Poetry in Medical Archives | R. Palmer Howard Dinner, Friday, April 28, 2017
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to the R. Palmer Howard Dinner for 2017. Poet Leslie Adrienne Miller will speak on the resurrection trade. The resurrection trade is the business of trafficking in corpses, one that makes anatomical art possible. Miller delves into the mysteries of early anatomical studies and medicalContinue reading “Leslie Miller | The Resurrection Trade: Finding Poetry in Medical Archives | R. Palmer Howard Dinner, Friday, April 28, 2017”
February 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Karl Ernst von Baer
KARL ERNST VON BAER (1792-1876). De ovi mammalium et hominis genesi. Leipzig: Sumptibus L. Vossii, 1827. Baer was an early pioneer of modern embryology who, through painstaking and patient effort, investigated germ cell line-age of a variety of species, firmly establishing embryology as a comparative science. While a professor in Königsberg, Baer wrote his most significantContinue reading “February 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Karl Ernst von Baer”
Pietro D’Abano | February 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
PIETRO d’ABANO (1250-1315?). Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum. Venice: Gabriele di Pietro, for Thomas de Tarvisio, 1476. Pietro d’Abano was an influential man of his time. A Paduan physician, philospher and astrologer, he was in demand for lectures and teaching. Dante was among his pupils. For his heretical views he ran afoul of the Inquisition, but diedContinue reading “Pietro D’Abano | February 2017 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Dr. Richard Shope, Flu Research Pioneer | History of Medicine Lecture | Thursday, Jan. 26
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to a lecture by Russell Currier, Past President, American Veterinary Medical History Society. Iowa’s Richard Edwin Shope MD: His Contributions to Influenza Research and One Medicine/Health Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:30pm-6:30pm 2117 MERF (Medical Education and Research Facility) Richard E. Shope MD (1901-1966) was aContinue reading “Dr. Richard Shope, Flu Research Pioneer | History of Medicine Lecture | Thursday, Jan. 26”
The birth of mankinde , othwise named the woman’s booke | December 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
EUCHARIUS RÖSSLIN (d. 1526). The birth of mankinde, otherwise named the woman’s booke. Set foorth in English by Thomas Raynalde. London: Thomas Adams, [1604]. Based on the Latin version, De partu hominis was translated and published by Richard Jonas (fl. 1540). The next English edition to appear was published by Thomas Raynalde. Raynalde borrowed freelyContinue reading “The birth of mankinde , othwise named the woman’s booke | December 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
History of Torture | History of Medicine Lecture by Robert Rakel, MD | Thursday, Nov. 17, 5:30pm
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society November lecture by Robert Rakel: The History of Torture, including the experience of Janusz Bardach Thursday, November 17 5:30-6:30pm 2117 MERF (Medical Education Research Facility Torture has existed for most of recorded history. Until the 2nd Century torture was only used on slaves, on the assumptionContinue reading “History of Torture | History of Medicine Lecture by Robert Rakel, MD | Thursday, Nov. 17, 5:30pm”
Francis Glisson | Anatomia Hepatis | November 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
FRANCIS GLISSON (1597-1677). Anatomia hepatis. London: Typis DuGardianis, 1654. Glisson was a graduate of Cambridge and Regius professor of physic there for more than forty years, although he was almost never in residence, as he carried on a busy medical practice in London. Glisson was a founder of the Royal Society and one-time president ofContinue reading “Francis Glisson | Anatomia Hepatis | November 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Vieussens, Neurographia Universalis | October 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room
RAYMOND VIEUSSENS (1641-1715?). Neurographia universalis. Lyons: Apud Joannem Certe, 1685 The son of a French army officer, Vieussens provided his own support, studying philosophy at Rhodez and medicine at Montpellier. As physician to the hospital of Saint Eloy in Montpellier,performed over five hundred postmortem examinations. He made a number of anatomical discoveries during these exams. ThisContinue reading “Vieussens, Neurographia Universalis | October 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room”