The Midwest Chapter of The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Michigan Health Science Library Association joint annual conference is in Yipsilanti, Michigan this year. Our librarians are going to be busy! Heather Healy, Clinical Education Librarian and Mahrya Carncross, Scholarly Communications Librarian for UI Libraries will present Picture This! Teaching Ethical Use of Health Sciences Images, aboutContinue reading “Librarian Activities at Midwest Chapter of Medical Library Association Annual Meeting 2017”
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Get to know Donna Hirst, Curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room
Donna Hirst was recently featured in IowaNow. Read more about Donna: http://now.uiowa.edu/2012/03/get-to-know-donna-hirst
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, February 2012
MOTONORI TAKI (1732-1801). Kokei saikyuho [Emergency remedies for the benefit of the people]. 1789. The author was a court physician famous in the annals of Japanese medicine. He was also known as Rankei Taki and Gentoku Tamba, combinations of his professional and personal names. Taki prepared this early Japanese home medical adviser at the requestContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, February 2012”
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, January, 2012
Nicolaas Tulp (1593-1664). Observationes medicae. 1652. Along with other distinguished anatomists in Holland, Tulp left a rich legacy of anatomical discoveries. His name is current in the eponym”Tulp’s valve” (the ileocecal valve). This book contains the first descriptions of beri-beri and of what is probably diphtheria. Tulp described the condition we know as migraine, theContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room, January, 2012”
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.
National Medical Librarian’s Month Fact #2
Since July 1, 2010, Hardin librarians and staff have taught over 80 sessions on library resources. We have done orientation sessions for students, faculty and residents. We go into the classrooms and teach library resources to students at the Colleges of Public Health, Pharmacy, Nursing, Dentistry and the Carver College of Medicine. And of course we teachContinue reading “National Medical Librarian’s Month Fact #2”
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”
College of Pharmacy historic images
The University Libraries would like to congratulate the College of Pharmacy on 125 years of excellence. Digital Library Services has digitized a collection of historic images of the College from the early to mid-1900s that provide fascinating glimpse into the College’s earlier years. College of Pharmacy History Photos
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”
Ed Holtum, John Martin Rare Book Room curator, retires
Ed Holtum, curator of the John Martin Rare Book Room and a University of Iowa health sciences librarian since 1971 retired on June 30, 2010. We wish him the best. The John Martin Rare Book Room will remain open with a new curator–Donna Hirst.