LOUIS, ANTOINE (1723-1792). Dissertation sur la question–comment se fait la transmission des maladies héréditaires? [Dissertation on the question–how are hereditary diseases transmitted?] and Observation et remarques sur les effets du virus cancéreux [Observation and remarks on the effects of the cancer virus], Printed in Paris at Chez Delaguette, 1749. 17 cm tall. Louis was born to a militaryContinue reading “Antoine Louis, Surgeon Inventor of Guillotine | June 2022 Featured Works from The John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
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John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library Open House 2022 Book List
Visit the John Martin Rare Book Room at Hardin Library for the annual open house, Wednesday, April 20, from 4pm-7pm. All are welcome/family friendly! Masks encouraged. This is an in-person event. The following books will be on display: BLEULAND, JAN (1756-1838). Otium academicum. Trajecti ad Rhenum: Ex Officina Joh. Altheer, academiae typographi, 1828. SABUCO deContinue reading “John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library Open House 2022 Book List”
Conservator’s Corner | Saving The Morgagni
By Beth Stone, MFA Collections Conservator, University of Iowa Libraries When volumes arrive in conservation, the first step is a quick assessment. Often this entails physical inspection of a cart of 30-80 items, ticking off from a checklist of the most common repairs or housings we provide. When an individual item is shuffled to aContinue reading “Conservator’s Corner | Saving The Morgagni”
John Browne | Myographia Nova | Dissection | Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
By Damien Ihrig, Curator, John Martin Rare Book Room BROWNE, JOHN (1642-1700) Myographia nova, or, A description of all the muscles in humane body : as they arise in dissection : distributed into six lectures ; at the entrance into every of which, are demonstrated the muscles properly belonging to each lecture now in generalContinue reading “John Browne | Myographia Nova | Dissection | Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Work Day in the Life of John Martin Rare Book Room Curator Damien Ihrig
A day in Damien’s work life at Hardin Library involves some or all of the following: Email, email, email A few meetings with local, state, or regional colleagues Working with the collection to prepare items for conservation care, digitization, reshelving, shifting shelves, or updating database entries. Class prep Working with a donor interested in giftingContinue reading “Work Day in the Life of John Martin Rare Book Room Curator Damien Ihrig”
Quack Transplant and Endocrinology Medicine | Serge Voronoff | January Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library
VORONOFF, SERGE (1866-1951). Étude sur la vieillesse et la rajeunissement par la greffe. [Research on aging and rejuvenation by transplantation] Printed in Paris by Octave and Gaston Doin in 1926. 23 cm tall. Signed copy. Voronoff was born in Russia and studied medicine in France. He studied with the transplant pioneer, Alexis Carell, eventually becomingContinue reading “Quack Transplant and Endocrinology Medicine | Serge Voronoff | January Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library”
Roots of Medicine | Iowa Pharmacy Garden
The new College of Pharmacy building has a garden that contains plants that were used for healing. The Roots of Medicine garden was a collaboration of Hardin Library staff, the John Martin Rare Book Room, the College of Pharmacy, a horticulture expert from Iowa State University, and local gardeners. The garden contains signs that identifyContinue reading “Roots of Medicine | Iowa Pharmacy Garden”
December 2021 Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin | Early Italian Facial Plastic Surgery
TAGLIACOZZI, GASPARE(1545-1599). De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem. Apud Gasparem Bindonum, juniorem, 1597. 32 cm tall. Tagliacozzi studied under Girolamo Cardano at the University of Bologna. After graduating, he became a professor of surgery and anatomy at Bologna. This work, “Concerning the surgery of the mutilated by grafting,” is a classic in the history of plastic surgery and isContinue reading “December 2021 Book of the Month from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin | Early Italian Facial Plastic Surgery”
November 2021 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Japanese Scroll from Mid-Edo Period
Full newsletter including more information about Japanese scrolls and additional images. UNKNOWN. Medicinal plants scroll from Japan’s mid-Edo period. Estimated date of creation is between 1727 and 1800. 29 x 800 cm. English translation available. The Medicinal plants scroll is, as its name suggests, a catalog of native Japanese plants, describing their habitats, flowers, fruits, and medicinal uses.Continue reading “November 2021 Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library | Japanese Scroll from Mid-Edo Period”
New Acquisition | John Martin Rare Book Room | Bleuland, Otium academicum
BLEULAND, JAN (1756-1838) Otium academicum : continens descriptionem speciminum nonnullarum partium corporis humani et animalium subtilioris anatomiae ope in physiologicum usum praeparatarum, aliarumque, quibus morborum organicorum natura illustratur. [Academic leisure: containing a description of several specimens of the human body and of exact animal anatomy prepared for use in physiology, and containing a description of otherContinue reading “New Acquisition | John Martin Rare Book Room | Bleuland, Otium academicum”