Scopus is a multidisciplinary database with substantial international coverage. All citations that are in EMBASE are also in Scopus.
Scopus also allows you to measure an author’s scholarly impact and to track an article’s cited and citing references. Come to this hands-on session and learn more!
Our next session is Thursday, March 28th from 11:00am-12:00pm at Hardin Library, Information Commons East, 2nd floor.
Today is Match Day. This is the day when 4th year medical students find out which programs they have matched with and where they will be starting their residencies. If you’d like to learn more, the Carver College of Medicine has a map showing where students headed last year along with other data from previous years on their Match Week website. http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/md/match/
To all of our M4′s, good luck in your future endeavors and congratulations from all of us at Hardin Library!
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine’s index to the medical literature and includes over 17 million bibliographic citations in life sciences. This one hour session will introduce you to the basics of searching PubMed and will also cover: using subject headings (MeSH headings), combining searches, choosing limits, and saving, printing and emailing search results.
No time for class? Ask your librarian for a private consult! We will also offer this workshop on Wednesday, April 24th.
Mrs. Emma L. Miller was the first woman employee in Veterans Health Administration. She was appointed as the first matron at the Central Branch NHDVS in Dayton (now Dayton VAMC) in the fall of 1867.
Prior to her appointment, she worked with the U.S. Sanitary Commission at their Cleveland and Cincinnati branches during the Civil War and was appointed as matron of the Ohio Soldiers Home in Columbus in October 1865.
When the U.S. government established a branch of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (later named National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers) it initially took over the state home in Columbus, but later selected a site in Dayton as its permanent location. Miss Miller brought 16 disabled “boys in blue” with her to the new Dayton site in the fall of 1867.
She helped at the hospital, oversaw laundry operations, ran the Home’s hotel, and was eventually elevated to Superintendent of the general depot, where much of the clothing and supplies for all of the National Homes were manufactured and distributed–a rare position to held by a woman, in those days. In the 1880 annual report, she reported that the “Matron’s Department” had washed, pressed, repaired, and reissued over 1,703,648 pieces of laundry and linens, averaging 32,762 pieces per week. Worn out linens were condemned, then washed and reused in the hospital as bandages and dressings, in the engineer’s department as wipers and wrappings for steam-pipes, and as wipers and mops elsewhere. Emma Miller was a fixture at the Dayton home for nearly 50 years and she lived on-site. She spent her entire post-Civil War life at the home and grew old with many of the men whom she originally cared for during the war. Emma Miller died in her quarters at the National Home on January 18, 1914 and is buried in the Dayton National Cemetery (formerly the National Home’s cemetery).
*Information provided by the Veterans Health Administration’s History Office.
The purpose of this session is to introduce you to various environmental health and toxicology resources found on the National Library of Medicine’s website. Learn about important resources such as the Household Products Database, TOXMAP and TOXNET.
The resources discussed in this session will be of interest to the researcher/scientist, health professional and the general public.
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 Black Death: the Plague, 1331-1770
Thursday, March 28, 2013, 4:30-7:00
John Martin Rare Book Room, 4th floor, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
Books published 1485-1750 will be on display. Amidst the chaos, the fear and the despair, rats scurried from home to home. If you suspect that symptoms of the plague are starting to appear, you need not worry, because a Plague Doctor will be present at the event.
Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room March 2013
Aselli was born at Cremona, studied medicine at Pavia receiving degrees in medicine, surgery, and philosophy. He spent his professional career as a surgeon in Milan performing many anatomical and physiological experiments including those that led to his rediscovery of the lymphatic vessels. The lymphatics had been described earlier but no one had been successful in identifying their functional significance. Aselli wrote many unpublished notebooks and papers to record his work on medical subjects including surgery, therapeutics, recurring calculi, anal fistulas, and poisonous drugs. The latter was important because it was the first time drugs had been classified by their clinical effects and toxic actions. While vivisecting a dog to demonstrate the recurrent nerves and diaphragm, he discovered a network of mesenteric vessels that contained a milky white fluid. He had uncovered the mesenteric lymphatic vessels which he called the lacteals. After repeated experimentation, he concluded that they lead into the liver which was believed to be the central organ of the venous system. It remained for Pecquet to correct Aselli’s misconception when he discovered the thoracic duct in 1651. The woodcuts are treated in a very spirited manner and in colored chiaroscuro. The wood blocks are the earliest anatomical illustrations in color printing.
Dr. Wayne Richenbacher presented a lecture on The Demise of Stonewall Jackson at the Hardin Library on January 24, 2013.
See a video of the talk on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5AFymfHIHU
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, commander of the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville during the American Civil War. He died eight days later. This talk will focus on Jackson the brilliant military strategist– Hunter Holmes McGuire the chief surgeon of Jackson’s Corps–and medical care provided to Jackson following his injury.