GIROLAMO MERCURIALE (1530-1606) De arte gymnastica libri sex. Apud Juntas 1587 3rd ed. 3, 308 [27] pp. illus. 23.6 cm .[The Art of Gymnastics, volume six in Latin]. Mercuriale, professor of medicine at Bologna and Pisa, is best know for this masterwork, first published in 1569. De arte gymnastica was the first complete text onContinue reading “Girolamo Mercuriale | Art of Gymnastics | April 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Category Archives: History of Medicine
Cancelled | 2020 R. Palmer Howard History of Medicine Society Dinner | April 24 | Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Enslaved Women | Cancelled
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and Hardin Library for the Health Sciences announce that the 2020 R. Palmer Howard Dinner scheduled for Friday, April 24 has been cancelled. The event will not be rescheduled.
CANCELLED |2020 Open House | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Black Plague | March 26
The 2020 John Martin Rare Book Room Open House has been cancelled. This event will not be rescheduled. Please see our online exhibit: The Black Death: The Plague, 1331-1770
Mattioli | Encyclopedia of Renaissance pharmacology | February 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
PIETRO ANDREA MATTIOLI (1500-1577) Commentarii, in libros sex Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei, Demedica materia. In officina Erasmiana; Apud Vincentium Valgrisium 1554 [48] 707 [1] pp., illus. 31.5 cm. Mattioli of Siena studied medicine at Padua where he graduated in 1523. During his career, he practiced at Siena, Perugia, Rome, Trent, and Gorizia. Mattioli was physician toContinue reading “Mattioli | Encyclopedia of Renaissance pharmacology | February 2020 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Lower Pioneer of Experimental Physiology | December 2019 Notes from The John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
RICHARD LOWER (1631-1691). Tractatus de corde. Amsterdam: Apud Danielem Elzevirium, 1669. [16] 232 pp Richard Lower was one of the foremost English physiologists of the seventeenth century. Soon after receiving his M.D. degree in 1665, Lower relocated to London. He quickly acquired a large practice, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and later aContinue reading “Lower Pioneer of Experimental Physiology | December 2019 Notes from The John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Da Vinci Catalogue of Drawings | November 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519). A catalogue of the drawings . . . in the collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan and Cambridge, England: 1935. Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the greatest artists and scientists of the Italian Renaissance. His contributions to science include significant accomplishments inContinue reading “Da Vinci Catalogue of Drawings | November 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek | Microscope Builder | October 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
ANTHONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK (1632-1723). Continuation arcanorum naturae detectorum. Delft: Apud Henricum a Kroonevelt, 1697. Antonio van Leeuwenhoek, of Delft, was the first to use the microscope systematically and brought the construction of the simple microscope to a high degree of perfection. Self-taught and never having attended a university, ignorant of Latin and Greek and the classicalContinue reading “Anthony van Leeuwenhoek | Microscope Builder | October 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
A Model for Chaucer’s Doctor | August 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
JOHN OF GADDESDEN (1280?-1361). Rosa Anglica practica medicine a capite ad pedes. Pavia: Joannesantonius Birreta, 1492. John studied at Merton College, Oxford, then practiced first at Oxford and later in London, where he was highly esteemed among his contemporaries. He was the first Englishman to be appointed court physician to an English king, Edward II, and isContinue reading “A Model for Chaucer’s Doctor | August 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Leslie Schwalm, PhD | Black Bodies, Medical Science & the Age of Emancipation | History of Medicine Lecture Thursday, October 24
The University of Iowa History of Medicine Society and Hardin Library for the Health Sciences present Professor Leslie Schwalm speaking on Black Bodies, Medical Science, and the Age of Emancipation, Thursday, October 24, 2019 in 1287 Carver Biomedical Research Building. Why did the Civil War, which ultimately ended slavery, also see northern whites deeply investedContinue reading “Leslie Schwalm, PhD | Black Bodies, Medical Science & the Age of Emancipation | History of Medicine Lecture Thursday, October 24”
Benzi’s Observations on Galen | May 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
UGO BENZI (1376-1439). Expositio super libros Tegni Galeni. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 1498 Benzi, also know as Hugo of Siena, initially studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Siena. He completed his doctorate at Pavia in 1396 where he remained on the faculty until 1399. During his subsequent academic career, he held majorContinue reading “Benzi’s Observations on Galen | May 2019 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”