Kathy Fait, Libraian at the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa will be speaking on Memories of Oakdale Sannatarium: Iowa’s Tuberculosis Hospital. Thursday, September 22, 2011, 5:30-6:30, Room 2032 at the University of Iowa Main Library. The year was 1906. Iowa appropriated $50,000 for a State Sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis. KathyContinue reading “Memories of Oakdale Sanatorium”
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Notes from the Rare Book Room, Aug 2011
Du Verney: Research on the ear in 1683 Guichard Joseph Du Verney’s treatise of 1683 was the first scientific account of the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the ear. Du Verney corrected the erroneous belief that the Eustachian tube was an avenue for breathing or hearing by showing that it was simply the channel through whichContinue reading “Notes from the Rare Book Room, Aug 2011”
Notes from the Rare Book Room, July 2011
Frederick Ruysch (1638-1731). Thesaurus anatomicus. 10 pts. 1729-1737. Rusch, a Dutch surgeon, anatomist and professor of anatomy at Leiden and Amsterdam, mastered (and probably invented) a method of minute injection of anatomical structures allowing detailed studies. The recipe for the injected substance has been lost, however. He made many anatomical investigations, including those of theContinue reading “Notes from the Rare Book Room, July 2011”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, May 2011
History of Medicine Society Presentations and Events, 2011/2012 The presentation series for 2011/2012 has now been published. Talks range from 1) Memories of Oakdale Sanatorium to 2) History of Anesthesia in the Veterans Administration to 3) Medical Quakes in the 18th Century.
Art and Medicine: Partners through the Centuries
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and the University Libraries invite you to an Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room Art and Medicine: Partners through the Centuries Thursday, March 24, 2011, 4:30-7:30 John Martin Rare Book Room, 4th floor, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
John Martin Rare Book Room- News Notes, Feb 2011
Le Boursier, a prominent Parisian midwife, first published the present work in 1759 without illustrations. The success of the book encouraged her to have later editions illustrated by Jean Robert (fl. 1746-1782). The 1769 edition was the first book on midwifery to appear with plates printed in multiple colors. Robert, a pupil of Le Blon,Continue reading “John Martin Rare Book Room- News Notes, Feb 2011”
Notes from the Rare Book Room December, 2010
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.
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room
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 consideredContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, Sept 2010
What Goes Around, Comes Around Robert Fludd (1574-1637) was a prominent English Paracelsian physician, astrologer,and mathematian. He was the first person to discuss the circulation of the blood, and did in fact arrive at the correct conclusion. His conclusion was based on the macrocosm-microcosm analysis, a theory in which all occurrences in the microcosm (man)Continue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, Sept 2010”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, August 2010
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, August 2010
Seeing Double: the stereocope and medical education