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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 Rare Book Room, July 2010

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 & animalContinue reading “Notes from the Rare Book Room, July 2010”

Notes from the Rare Book Room

Since 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. YouContinue reading “Notes from the Rare Book Room”

Notes from the Rare Book Room: Healing by laying on of hands, 1628-1683

Although born in Ireland, Valentine Greatrakes was English, his ancestors having settled there in the late sixteenth century. In 1641, the family was forced to flee England during an Irish revolt. He was privately educated in theology and the humanities in Devon where the family lived. When he was nineteen, Greatrakes returned to Ireland, determinedContinue reading “Notes from the Rare Book Room: Healing by laying on of hands, 1628-1683”

History of Medicine Banquet

Today, Monday, April 26 is the deadline to register for the History of Medicine Banquet and talk.  Jack El-Hai will speak on “Walter Freeman and the Rise and Fall of Lobotomy.” Reception at 6:00 PM;   Dinner at 7:00 PM   Cost $25 Talk at 8:00 PM Request reservations from Donna Sabin, 319-335-6706    donna-sabine@uiowa.edu

Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room

 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 “The Essentials:   A hands-on look at key works in the history of medicine  from seven centuries” Thursday, March 25th 4:30 to 7:30 John Martin Rare Book Room, 4th floor, HardinContinue reading “Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room”