Effective on January 1, 2013, all of the Archives Journals will be official renamed:
For more information, please see this article from JAMA.
Lizars developed a great reputation as a teacher and was also a bold and forthright surgeon. He made a number of original contributions, was a pioneer in performing ovariotomies in Europe, and he clearly demonstrated the value of abdominal exploration as a diagnostic procedure. However, he was somewhat ahead of his time and received criticism for exploring new surgical techniques, though later many of his techniques became widely accepted. Lizars was an active writer and prepared many papers on hernia, lithotomy, and hemorrhoids. Although it contains no new discoveries, this superb atlas is certainly one of the most elegant works of the nineteenth century. The 101 lithographs were drawn by the author and his brother, William, from the author’s dissections.
A permanent exhibit honoring Dr. Robert C. Hardin, for whom the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences is named, is now on display near the Library’s 3rd floor entrance. In addition to performing pioneering research in blood banking and transfusion and in diabetes, Dr. Hardin was instrumental in the current design of the University of Iowa’s health sciences campus.
In addition to the exhibit, more information about Dr. Hardin is available here.
CLAUDE NICOLAS LE CAT (1700-1768). Traité des sens. Nouvelle ed. Amsterdam: Chez J. Wetstein, 1744.
Le Cat, a man of many interests, was one of France’s foremost surgeons and researchers. Le Cat was interested in the physiology of the nervous system. He was a contemporary of Haller and incorrectly believed, contrary to Haller, that the dura mater and arachnoid were the seat of sensation.
REINIER DE GRAAF (1641-1673). Tractatus anatomico-medicus de succi pancreatici natura & usu. Leiden: Ex officina Hackiana, 1671.
Graaf, a Dutch anatomist and physiologist, was celebrated for his work on digestion as well as on the anatomy of the genital organs of both sexes. He was an early investigator of the pancreas and collected the pancreatic juice of dogs by means of artificially created pancreatic fistulae. more…
Xiaomei Gu was awarded a Sewell Fund stipend to attend the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy annual meeting. This year’s meeting is from July 14-18 in Kissimmee, Florida.
The mission of The Grace and Harold Sewell Memorial Fund is to increase librarians’ identification with medical, pharmaceutical, and health care professionals. Librarians experienced in managing knowledge and teaching informatics can supply quality information by becoming ongoing members of the health care team. Immersion in the health care environment is necessary for librarians to understand how health care professionals solve problems individually and through consensus.
Jennifer Deberg was accepted to the Iowa Library Association Leadership Institute for 2012. Participants in the institute will learn leadership skills in a retreat-like setting. After her acceptance, Deberg was awarded a scholarship for registration costs from the Iowa Library Association Health Sciences Subdivision. 
Despite his short life and a professional career of only about twelve years, Swammerdam of Amsterdam was one of the outstanding comparative anatomists of the seventeenth century. He was a pioneer in microscopic studies, investigating especially the anatomy of insects. The present work, a classic on respiration, was his inaugural dissertation at the University of Leipzig and one of only four works published during his lifetime. He first showed that the lungs of a newborn infant would float if the child had ever breathed, and this discovery was put to legal use in cases of infanticide. The engraved title page illustrates his ingenious, if complicated, device for the study of respiration.
MONDINO DEI LUZZI (d. 1326). Anatomia Mundini. Marburg: In officina Christiani Egenolphi, [1541]
This edition of Mondino’s anatomy was prepared by Johannes Dryander, called Eichmann, who is generally regarded as one of the first anatomists to make illustrations from his own dissections. This important and rare book is especially interesting for its woodcuts. Nearly half of the plates were copied from Berengario da Carpi’s commentary on Mondino’s Anothomia published in 1521 and most of the remaining plates are Dryander’s. Many of them were taken from Dryander’s Anatomiae first issued in 1537 and at least six of his plates are believed to have been taken from Vesalius’ Tabulae anatomicae sex. Only forty-one of the original forty-six plates are present in Hardin’s copy.
This year’s Medical Library Association annual meeting is in Seattle, and our librarians are contributing papers and posters.
Congratulations to Hardin’s student employees who graduate this month!
| Amanda Langdon | M.A. Library and Information Science Graduate Certificate from Center for the Book |
Amanda plans to work in special collections or public libraries. She would like to live and work in Wales, Colorado, or the Pacific Northwest. |  |
| Elizabeth Holdsworth | M.A. Library and Information Science | Liz plans to work as a medical librarian. | |
| Sea a Joung | B.F.A. Painting | Sea a plans to attend graduate school for an MFA in painting. | |
| Brett Mayfield | B.A. English with honors Minor Political Science |
Brett will begin working as an intern at Midwest Writing Center this summer. He will pursue a career in publishing or at a nonprofit. |  |
| Colleen Quaid | B.A. Communication Studies B.A. Sport Studies Minor Spanish |
Colleen will be working for the WNBA team Chicago Skye in Chicago. | |
| Erika Bjorklund | With distinction B.A. English B.A. French B.A. Studio Art |
Erika will begin working as an intern at Cuisine at Home magazine this summer. She intends to pursue a career in magazine or book publishing. |  |
| Qiana White | B.A. Psychology Minor Sociology |
Qiana plans to attend receive an M.A. in Counseling. She wants to work with recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. |  |
| Tabitha Byrum | B.S. Psychology | Tabitha plans to attend graduate school in Psychology, hopefully in California. | |
| Alexander Stanton | B.A. Political Science | Alex will be working for Johnson County Secondary Roads this summer. In two years he will move to Des Moines and pursue a career in state government. |  |
| Krystal Rusk | B.A. Art History B.A. Anthropology Certificate in Museum Studies |
Krystal is currently pursuing internships or an entry-level job. She plans to attend graduate school for Museum Studies. |  |
| Phu (Mary) Truong | B.A. Interdepartmental Studies, Health Sciences Track | Mary plans to work for a year and then attend Nursing school. | |
| Rachel Litterer | B.A. English Certificate in Medieval Studies | Rachel plans on finding a full-time job, preferably in a library. In the future, she plans to attend graduate school. |  |
| Brittany Laine | B.A. Marketing Minor Human Relations |
Brittany plans to return to the Chicago area and work in business. |