AULUS CORNELIUS CELSUS (25 B.C.-50 A.D.). De medicina. Venice: Philippus Pincius, for Benedictus Fontana, 1497. Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia. The De Medicina is the oldest medical document after the HippocraticContinue reading “Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina | January 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
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Hippocrates Translated by François Rabelais | December 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C.-ca. 368 B.C.). Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem. Lyons: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1543. The John Martin Rare Book Room holds 21 titles by Hippocrates published from 1527 through the 1800’s. This volume, translated from the Greek to Latin is by François Rabelais (ca. 1490-1553?). Rabelais was a French physician, Catholic monk, and noted humanist,Continue reading “Hippocrates Translated by François Rabelais | December 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Meet The Expert: Chris Childs, Clinical Education Librarian for Pharmacy and Dentistry
Meet The Expert: Chris Childs, Clinical Education Librarian Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Purdue University Master of Library Science, University of North Texas Areas of Expertise: Health sciences literature searching Systematic reviews EndNote Teaching and training users Collection development Finding evidence-based resources Outreach Outside the library: I’m a big fan of the National Park system andContinue reading “Meet The Expert: Chris Childs, Clinical Education Librarian for Pharmacy and Dentistry”
Arthur Hill Hassall | Food and its Adulterations | November 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room
ARTHUR HILL HASSALL (1817-1894). Food and its adulterations. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. Hassall studied medicine as his uncle’s apprentice in Dublin and later returned to England where he received a diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1839 and an M.D. from the University of London in 1851. An individual of many scientificContinue reading “Arthur Hill Hassall | Food and its Adulterations | November 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room”
Guido Guidi | October 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
GUIDO GUIDI (1508-1569). Chirurgia è Graeco in Latinum conversa. Paris: Excudebat Petrus Galterius, 1544 Guidi, a successful Florentine surgeon, was invited to Paris in 1542 to help the French King Francis I apply medical advances of the Italian Renaissance to French medicine. Francis appointed Guidi his personal physician and chair of surgery at the Collège de France.Continue reading “Guido Guidi | October 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Alexander Gordon | Puerperal Fever | September 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
ALEXANDER GORDON (1752-1799). A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen. First Edition London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson., 1795. In 1780, at the age of 28, with testimonial letters from the Corporation of Surgeons of London, Gordon entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon’s mate and advanced to the rank of surgeon. In 1785 GordonContinue reading “Alexander Gordon | Puerperal Fever | September 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Galen, De ossibus. | August 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
GALENUS (ca. 130-ca. 200). De ossibus. Lyons: Apud Guliel. Rouillium, 1549. Next to Hippocrates, Galen was the most noted physician of antiquity. Born in Pergamon (present day Bergama, Turkey), he received his formal medical education in Smyrna, after which he traveled widely in Asia Minor and to Alexandria to extend his medical knowledge. Galen settled inContinue reading “Galen, De ossibus. | August 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Banned Books Week 2018
The #4 book-The Kite Runner by Khaled Housseini- on this list is a very popular book in Hardin’s collection.
Sir David Ferrier | The Brain | July 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room
Sir DAVID FERRIER (1843-1928). The functions of the brain. London: 1876 Educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Ferrier was chiefly associated with the National Hospital and medical school of King’s College during his long and illustrious career. In addition to being a charter member of the Physiological Society, he joined with John Hughlings Jackson, Sir John Bucknill, andContinue reading “Sir David Ferrier | The Brain | July 2018 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room”
Calling Balls & Strikes Without Beall’s List | Mahrya Carncross, MLIS, Scholarly Communication Librarian
With the proliferation of open access journals, researchers can get their work into the hands of more readers, and readers—especially those who aren’t affiliated with major universities and their vast journal collections—are able to access necessary research for free. This is a good thing. Authors get a boost in their article citations, and scholars ofContinue reading “Calling Balls & Strikes Without Beall’s List | Mahrya Carncross, MLIS, Scholarly Communication Librarian”