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Micheil Cannistra speaks on “Indian Giver: Lynch Syndrome, The Navajo and the Genetic Revolution”

By
Donna Hirst
– February 12, 2011Posted in: Lectures and Discussions, Rare Book Room, Uncategorized

Micheil  Cannistra.  Winner of the 2008/2009 Sparks Essay Contest, will speak on:  Indian Giver: Lynch Syndrome, The Navajo, and the Genetic Revolution.
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 5:30-6:30

  For decades Dr. Henry Lynch of Creighton University performed research among farm families in Nebraska and beyond in an effort to prove that cancer, particularly colon cancer, could be hereditary. In the 1980s his research brought him to the Navajo Reservation, where he evaluated and provided genetic counseling to several cancer-plagued Native American families. His work there helped prove his controversial hypothesis once and for all, eventually revealing an unexpected overlap between Navajo political and medical history.

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Notes from the Rare Book Room December, 2010

By
Donna Hirst
– December 2, 2010Posted in: Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room, Uncategorized

An Invitation to Explore the Past

Visit us before, during or after the holidays and bring a friend.  To insure that the room is open email donna-hirst@uiowa.edu or call 335-9154.

 

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Viper’s Flesh and Unicorn’s Horn

By
Donna Hirst
– November 16, 2010Posted in: Lectures and Discussions, Rare Book Room

History of Medicine Society talk by Mark Waddell.
Friday, November 19, 2010  5:30-6:30
Room 401, Hardin Library

“For centuries, physicians, alchemists, and astrologers sought the universal panacea, a cure-all that would eradicate disease and prolong life.  In their efforts to unlock the hidden secrets of nature, explorers scoured the farthest reaches of the known world and returned with the horns of unicorns, the roots of deadly mandrakes, and tales of mysterious, ancient remedies used in the Arabic world.  Winding its way amidst accusations of fraud, quackery, and diabolical sorcery, this is a story about the foundations of modern medicine and our own, modern quest for the ultimate cure.”

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The Apothecary

By
Donna Hirst
– November 10, 2010Posted in: Exhibits, Rare Book Room

A new Hardin exhibit offers many practical hints on the care of the human physick.

 A recipe for Ointment of Tar and Opium.  This compound has been found very efficacious in haemorrhoids.

 A recipe for The Draught with Millepedes.  This is given in Hectical Complaints, where the Lungs are supposed to have Schrophulous Tubercles.

 Culpeper’s School of Phyfick.  The soles of the Feet rubbed with good Mustard, helps forgetfulness, and quickens the motion.

 Check out the exhibit and learn how to cure your ailes.

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George Beran speaks on One Health: Human and Animal Rabies

By
Donna Hirst
– October 26, 2010Posted in: Lectures and Discussions, Rare Book Room, Uncategorized

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear George W. Beran speak on One Health: Human and Animal Rabies, an issue in human and animal relations.  Thursday, Oct. 28, 5:30-6:30, Room 401, Hardin Library.

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Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room

By
Donna Hirst
– October 12, 2010Posted in: Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room, Uncategorized

Culpepper 

Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books, The English Physician (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.

Culpeper spent the greater part of his life in the English outdoors cataloging hundreds of medicinal herbs. He criticized what he considered the unnatural methods of his contemporaries, writing: “This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, DR. REASON and DR. EXPERIENCE, and took a voyage to visit my mother NATURE, by whose advice, together with the help of Dr. DILIGENCE, I at last obtained my desire; and, being warned by MR. HONESTY, a stranger in our days, to publish it to the world, I have done it.”

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Anesthesia for 1st Heart Transplant-Cape Town

By
Donna Hirst
– September 17, 2010Posted in: Rare Book Room

The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to hear Franklin Scamman, M.D., Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Iowa speak on The Anesthesia for the First Heart Transplant: Cape Town 1967

Thursday, September 23, 2010, 5:30-6:30
Room 401, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

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Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, August 2010

By
Donna Hirst
– August 5, 2010Posted in: News, Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room

stereoscope

Sir Charles Wheatstone  (1802-1875) was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including his 1838 invention of the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images). Stereopsis, was first described by Wheatstone  in research which led him to make stereoscopic drawings and construct the stereoscope. He showed that our impression of solidity is gained by the combination in the mind of two separate pictures of an object taken by both of our eyes from different points of view.

 

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Notes from the Rare Book Room, July 2010

By
Donna Hirst
– July 2, 2010Posted in: News, Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room

Thursday, September 23, 2010,  5:30-6:30
Scamman, Franklin, M.D.  Prof. Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Iowa
The Anesthesia for the First Heart Transplant: Cape Town 1967

Thursday, October 28, 2010, 5:30-6:30
George W. Beran, D.V.M., Ph.D., Prof. Emeritus Vet. Microbiol. & Prev. Med., ISU
One Health:  Human & Animal Rabies, an issue in human & animal relations

Friday, November 19, 2010,  5:30-6:30
Mark Waddell, Ph.D., Assist. Prof., Dept. of History, Michigan State University
Viper’s Flesh and Unicorn’s Horn: The Quest for a Magical Panacea

Thursday, January 27, 2011, 5:30-6:30
Axel Ruprecht D.D.S., M.Sc.D., F.R.C.D.(C), Prof. of Diag. Sci. & Oral & Maxillofacial Rad., UI
The History of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology

Thursday, February 24, 2011, TBD
 Micheil Cannistra, Sparks essay contest Winner,  3rd Year Med. student, U of I
Indian Giver:  Lynch Syndrome, The Navajo, and the Genetic Revolution

Thursday, March 24, 2011, 4:30-7:30
John Martin Rare Book Rm,. 4th floor, Hardin Library for the Health Sci., U of Ia
Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room

Friday, April 28, 2011, 6:00-9:00
Allen Shotwell, M.A., M.S. , PhD (ABD) in History & Phil. of Sci. at Ind. Univ.
The Anatomist and the Book in the Early Sixteenth Century

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Notes from the Rare Book Room

By
Donna Hirst
– June 3, 2010Posted in: Hardin Library Staff, Notes from the Rare Book Room, Rare Book Room

Ed HoltumSince 1971 EDWIN HOLTUM  has worked for the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, the University of Iowa Libraries and as Curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room.  He retires June 30, 2010.

Ed Holtum’s retirement party is 3:00-4:30 Wednesday, June 30, 2010 in the 1st floor Staff Lounge of the Main Library. You are invited to help Ed celebrate.

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