“Civility on Trial” considers the clash of expectations that confronted surgeons and relief workers in military hospitals during the Civil War. This lecture will be held on Thursday, October 27 at 5:30pm in 2117 MERF. MERF is located at 375 Newton Road, Iowa City. The spectacle of death that gripped the public imagination raised physicians’Continue reading “Civility on Trial: Nurses, Surgeons, and Medical Extremity in Civil War Hospitals | History of Medicine Lecture | Thurs., Oct. 27, 5:30pm”
Category Archives: Rare Book Room
Dr. Helkiah Crooke : Historical and Literary Legacy | History of Medicine Society | Thursday, Sept. 22, 5:30pm
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to attend the first talk of the semester. Jillian Linster, PhD candidate, English Department, University of Iowa speaking on: Dr. Helkiah Crooke (1576-1648): The Historical and Literary Legacy of an Early Modern Physician. Thursday, September 22, 2016, 5:30-6:30 Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, RoomContinue reading “Dr. Helkiah Crooke : Historical and Literary Legacy | History of Medicine Society | Thursday, Sept. 22, 5:30pm”
AVICENNA | September 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
AVICENNA (980-1037). Canon medicinae. 4 vols. in 3. Lyons: Johannes Trechsel, completed by Johannes Clein, 1498. Known in the Persian world as the Chief or the Second Doctor (Aristotle having been the first), Avicenna (Arabic Ibn Sīnā) was an accomplished physician as well as a noted philosopher. He wrote widely on theology, metaphysics, astronomy, philosophy, law,Continue reading “AVICENNA | September 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Andrés de Laguna de Laguna | August 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
ANDRES DE LAGUNA (1499-1560). Anatomica methodus, seu De sectione humani corporis contemplatio. Paris: Apud Ludovicum Cyaneum, 1535. Laguna, a native of Segovia, Spain, began his education in medicine at Paris in 1532. While in Paris he published his first three books and became acquainted with Vesalius. By 1539, Laguna published over 30 books, many on medical botany–oneContinue reading “Andrés de Laguna de Laguna | August 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Johannes Dryander | June 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
JOHANNES DRYANDER (ca. 1500-1560). Anatomiae. Marburg: Apud Eucharium Ceruicornum, 1537. Dryander (also known as Eichmann), professor of surgery at Marburg, was a friend of Vesalius and among the first anatomists who made illustrations after their own dissections. This Anatomiae appeared six years before Vesalius’ great work. This was the first significant book on the anatomyContinue reading “Johannes Dryander | June 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
New Acquisition: Aristotle’s Compleat Masterpiece
Newly acquired by the University of Iowa for the John Martin Rare Book Room, Aristotle’s Compleat Masterpiece and the other works included here — considered “the first sex manual in the English language” — were not, in fact, authored by Aristotle. Rather, attribution of the works to him was a way to gain an air ofContinue reading “New Acquisition: Aristotle’s Compleat Masterpiece”
R. Palmer Howard Dinner | History of Medicine Society | Ink & Silver Medicine, Photography, & the Printed Book 1845-1890 | Friday April 22
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society invites you to attend the 2016 R. Palmer Howard Dinner on Friday, April 22, 2016 at the Sheraton Hotel, Iowa City. Reception begins at 6pm, followed by a buffet dinner and presentation. Stephen Greenberg will talk on the use of photography in 19th Century printed medical books.Continue reading “R. Palmer Howard Dinner | History of Medicine Society | Ink & Silver Medicine, Photography, & the Printed Book 1845-1890 | Friday April 22”
March 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | William Porterfield (1695-1771) | Treatise on the eye
WILLIAM PORTERFIELD (1695-1771). A treatise on the eye, the manner and phaenomena of vision 1st edition. 2 vol. Edinburgh: Printed for A. Miller at London, 1759. Porterfield was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, received his M.D. in 1717 at Rheims, and by 1721 was practicing in Edinburgh. Porterfield was made a professor at the University ofContinue reading “March 2016 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | William Porterfield (1695-1771) | Treatise on the eye”
Medical History Innovation : Selected Pioneers | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin | Open House, Thurs. March 31, 4-7pm
Visit the annual Open House in the John Martin Rare Book Room at Hardin Library on Thursday, March 31 from 4-7pm. 34 books will be on display, with a focus on medical innovations from 1527-1936. For more information on the History of Medicine Society, or to donate, please see: http://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/histmed/index.html Open House 2016 InnovatorsContinue reading “Medical History Innovation : Selected Pioneers | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin | Open House, Thurs. March 31, 4-7pm”
Gender, Memory & Authority in the Early Modern Medical Print Marketplace | Lecture, Thursday, Feb. 25, 5:30pm
Elizabeth Yale, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Center for the Book, will give a talk on Gender, Memory, and Authority in the Early Modern Medical Print Marketplace. Thursday, February 25, 5:30-6:30pm 2117 Medical Education Research Facility (MERF) map In 17th and early 18th-century Britain, medical practitioners, whether physicians, midwifes, apothecaries, or self-trained purveyors ofContinue reading “Gender, Memory & Authority in the Early Modern Medical Print Marketplace | Lecture, Thursday, Feb. 25, 5:30pm”