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Apr 19 2021

Medieval Home Medicine | Week 3 | National Poetry Month @Hardin Library

Posted on April 19, 2021 by Sarah Andrews

Celebrate National Poetry Month by viewing this medieval didactic poem in hexameter verse.

Make an appointment to view in person or by Zoom with curator damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu or by calling 319-335-9154.

REGIMEN SANITATIS SALERNITANUM The Englishmans doctor, or, The school of Salerne. Printed for John Helme 1612 5th impression. [48] pp. 13.7 cm.
First English translation by Sir John Harington

Although not a physician, Sir John Harington (1561-1612) was highly regarded as a man of learning, wit, and great culture. He wrote several works dealing with sanitary engineering; among them was one describing the modern water closet. Harington first translated the poem into blank verse in 1609.

Authorities disagree even as to the approximate date of the original composition of this poem, but a date near 1100 would probably not be far wide of the mark, although it seems not to have been widely known until the middle of the thirteenth century. The poem believed to have emanated from the school of Salerno; at least, that school’s chief claim to popular fame rests with this long didactic poem which sums up most of the practical medical literature up to its time.

The work itself is actually a catch-all of advice and instruction on how to preserve health, rules of hygiene and diet, simple therapeutics, and other instruction intended more for the laity than for the medical profession. Thousands of physicians memorized this poem. After the invention of printing, nearly nearly three hundred editions were published, in Latin as well as in several vernacular languages. Numerous variations and additional verses which accrued through the years have doubtless obscured the original state of the Regimen, but this collective effort remains one of the most revealing medical works of the Middle Ages.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa–sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Damien Ihrig at damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu or 319-335-9154.

Apr 12 2021

Herbal, Poetry, Recipes from 1652 | Week 2 of National Poetry Month | John Martin Rare Book Room @Hardin Library

Posted on April 12, 2021 by Sarah Andrews

Celebrate National Poetry Month by viewing this work perhaps written by James Howell.

Make an appointment to view in person with curator damien-ihrig@uiowa.edu or by calling 319-335-9154.

[JAMES HOWELL] (1594?-1666)] A hermeticall banquet, drest by a spagiricall cook : for the better preservation of the microcosme. Printed for Andrew Crooke, and are to be sold at the Green Dragon in S. Pauls Church-yard 1652 1st edition. [35], 161 p. 14 cm.

This work is of unknown authorship but has been attributed variously to James Howell, Thomas Vaughan, and Sir Thomas Cademan. Denham, in the ‘Wellcome Library’ argues that the first two attributions are impossible since the author’s dedicatory epistle – addressed to Sir Isaac Wake, one of his patients and ambassador to France – necessitates a date of 1631 or earlier, impossible for Vaughan and a bit early for Howell.

Denham suggests Cademan (d.1651), who received a degree from the famous medical university at Padua, and was physician to Queen Henrietta Maria and the Earl of Bedford. Denham’s attribution is suggested by the author’s curious reference to himself as a vegetable reborn, something that suggests for Denham a word play linking the author’s name with the caddis fly. And our author refers in this text to his time as a student in Padua, describing his walks through the botanical garden.

Whoever the author be, he is contemptuous of other medicos, and gives us his own recipe for healthy living, liberally flavored with humor and fantasy. He begins by comparing man the microcosm, to the universe, or macrocosm.

Health will be produced if we mirror in our regimen the balance of the components of the universe. He then treats the stomach, beginning with advice to avoid overeating, and (in case the advice is unheeded) following up with a number of compound herbal recipes for indigestion.

Next he discourses upon the brain, which he allegorizes as the king of our microcosm, served by entertaining such nourishing courtiers as Ovid and Ben Jonson. In this section, recipes – some with more than twenty ingredients – are given not only to sharpen the brain, but also for healthy vision and hearing.

Next comes his treatment of the liver, a particularly zany chapter in the course of which our author breaks into poetry, telling of his courtship of Lady Health and the banquets they shared together, in which the author had difficulty containing his desires for ‘pyes,’ ‘maqeroni,’ and marzipan.

In the final chapter, allegory carries him almost totally away, as he sets sail to the “Cardiacall Territoryes,” where he encounters such characters as Don Ambitio and Signora Impudentia. He seems to have left Health completely behind, until at the end he offers heart-cooling recipes for the young and heart-warming prescriptions for the elderly. This book is very rare.

Cited references Wellcome III p.253 (Hermeticall); NLM 17th c. #5531 (Hermeticall)

Dec 08 2020

Introducing the Anatomage Table 7 – Fully Segmented 3D Anatomy

Posted on December 8, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

The Anatomage Table 7 is now available for use at the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences!

The Table 7 is the world’s only fully-segmented real human 3D anatomy system. Users can visualize anatomy exactly as they would on a fresh cadaver. Individual structures of the body are reconstructed in accurate 3D, resulting in an unprecedented virtual dissection experience. Please email us for more information.

Features of the Anatomage Table 7

4 Photorealistic cadavers
Physiology simulation and pathway visualization
36 High-resolution regional anatomy
1000+ Pathology case library

Guide to Anatomage Table 7

Schedule training on the table

head shot photo of Joe Promes, white man, beard and mustache, black suit, tartan tie — Joe Promes, Anatomage Training & Outreach Specialist

Faculty: suggestions for incorporating Table 7 into your curriculum:

Student Self-Study: Students are able to reserve Table 7 through the Hardin Library website for individual or group study.
Quizzes: Table 7 offers a quiz mode that allows instructors to create a quiz over structures of the cadaver. The Table also allows Pins to be placed on the cadaver to mimic a real-life cadaver quiz.
Lecture Content: Table 7 software allows for both screenshots and screen recordings. Instructors can create lecture content through the Anatomage Table 7.
Training for you: Joe Promes is available to give you an overview of using the table and features.

Additional information for faculty

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Nov 23 2020

New eBooks in ClinicalKey Including Critical Care, Pain, Oncology, Viral Outbreaks

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

Brand-new titles now available electronically in ClinicalKey. All of these are the first edition of this title.

Surgery of the Salivary Glands (Witt)
Breast Cancer and Gynecological Cancer Rehabilitation (Cristian)
Pediatric Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases (Steinbach)
Pain Care Essentials and Innovations (Eapen)
Proton Therapy (Frank)
Preparing for Viral Outbreaks and Bioterrorism (Perl)
The Opioid Epidemic and Infectious Diseases (Norton)
Viral Outbreaks, Biosecurity, and Preparing for Mass Casualty Infectious Diseases (Perl)
Brain Injury Medicine (Eapen)
The Female Athlete (Frank)
Endoscopic Surgery of the Orbit (Sindwani)
Atlas of Aesthetic Breast Surgery (Pu)
Handbook of Perioperative and Procedural Patient Safety (Sanchez)
Hand-Held Echocardiography (Naqvi)
Handbook of Structural Heart Interventions (Rihal)
Aesthetic Surgery of the Facial Skeleton (Baker)
Atlas of Diagnostic Hematology (Salama)
Complications in Orthopaedic Surgery: Sports Medicine
Decision-Making in Adult Neurology (Cucciara)
The Mental Status Examination Handbook (Mendez)
Subfertility (Rehman)
Critical Care Medicine: An Algorithmic Approach (Goldfarb-Rumyantzev)
ICU Quick Drug Guide (Lee)
Interventional Management of Chronic Visceral Pain Syndromes (Pak)
Neuro-Oncology for the Clinical Neurologist (Strowd)
Atlas of Pediatric Echocardiography (Kucera)

Access any of this titles by going to http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/clinicalkey and selecting “books.”

Mar 27 2020

UpToDate, DynaMed Plus, other clinical point-of-care mobile apps FREE from Hardin Library

Posted on March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 by Sarah Andrews

Hardin Library subscribes to a variety of clinical resources that include free mobile apps for UIowa affiliated users including faculty, staff, students, residents, fellows, and emeritus faculty. Find instructions on how to install on our guide: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/mobile.

UpToDate: EBM clinical resource
DynaMed Plus: EBM clinical resources Differences between DynaMed Plus and UpToDate from Harrell Library @PSU
ClinicalKey: Information from 1100 text, 500 journals published by Elsevier
Johns Hopkins ABX Guide Mobile: EBM treatment information for infectious diseases
BMJ Best Practice: decision-support
VisualDX Mobile: visually based differential DX tool
AccessMedicine Mobile: includes DX and RX tools and textbooks
MicroMedex Drug Interactions
Medical Letter app
Micromedex Neofax and Pediatrics Essential Mobile: drug dosing and parenteral nutrition support for peds and neonatal patients
StatRef! Mobile: EBM resources, full-text journal titles, ACP Smart Medicine, Merck Manual, Stedman’s
OvidToday: access to Ovid journals
BrowZine: faster reading of your journals

All of Hardin’s electronic databases and tools are available here: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/az.php?s=119595. Most of these sources are responsive and will also work on a mobile device without loading an app.

A more complete list of University of Iowa Libraries electronic resources is available here: https://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/az.php?a=all

If you have difficulty installing apps, please contact us.

Aug 27 2019

New e-books added to Clinical Key July-August 2019 | Peds, Ortho, Radiology, Vascular, Endo

Posted on August 27, 2019August 27, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

Essential Orthopaedics (Miller, Mark) 2nd ed
Essentials of Radiology (Mettler, Fred) 4th ed
Fanaroff and Martin’s Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine (Martin, Richard) 11th ed
Fenichel’s Clinical Pediatric Neurology (Piña-Garza, J. Eric) 8th ed
Holcomb and Ashcraft’s Pediatric Surgery (Holcomb, George) 7th ed
Vascular Medicine: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease (Creager, Mark) 3rd ed
Endocrine Secrets (McDermott, Michael) 7th ed

Access any of this titles by going to http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/clinicalkey and selecting “books.”

Jun 27 2019

Residents | Services for You!

Posted on June 27, 2019July 2, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

Hardin Library provides a variety of services to help you succeed!

Your department has a specialist librarian
Every department is assigned a liaison librarian, who can help you with all of your questions about the library and its resources.

Evidence-based medicine resources
Hardin subscribes to DynaMed, the Cochrane Library, JAMAevidence, BMJ Best Practice, and more.

Board review materials
Board Vitals provides question banks, with feedback, for most specialty boards.

Assistance with literature searches and systematic reviews
The UIowa Libraries subscribe to many health science databases, focused on a variety of disciplines and implementations, from point-of-care to basic science research. Your liaison can help you choose the right databases, the right headings, and the right strategy. The Institute of Medicine recommends working with a librarian or other information specialist to plan out your search strategy and to peer-review the final strategy used.
Guide to Getting Started with Systematic Reviews
Health Sciences databases
1139 databases available from University of Iowa Libraries (all disciplines)

Easy access to electronic journals
A-Z list of electronic journals – we may have other issues in print as well!
Browzine lets you make a personal list of journals to read at your computer or use the mobile app.

Work off-campus
All of our library resources are available off-campus but require authentication with your Iowa HawkID and password. Start at Hardin’s website. If you are trying to access library resources off campus from a secure location or behind a firewall, you may need to use the Cisco AnyConnect VPN client. You may also need to use Cicsco AnyConnect from the VA Hospital.

Specialized guides to resources
Find quick help for your specialty or department.

Free interlibrary loan and document delivery
If you need an article or book that the UI Libraries doesn’t have, we can get it for you, for free. And if you need an article that we only have in print, we will scan it for you. If you want a book that is checked out, request it. No limits on the number of requests!

EndNote Desktop and other citation management software
EndNote is freely available for residents, and your liaison can work with you to tame your references.

Mobile resources
Hardin subscriptions provide access to many mobile apps at no charge to you including UpToDate, DynaMed Plus, ClinicalKey, BMJ Best Practice and more.

Hardin Open Workshops
Hardin librarians offer monthly workshops on topics like PubMed, EndNote, and avoiding predatory publishers. We can also bring any of our sessions to you individually or to your group.

Quick help when you need it
Whenever the library is open, we have trained reference staff available to answer questions by phone 319-335-9151, email lib-hardin@uiowa.edu or chat.

159 Health Science databases
Web of Science, Scopus, Micromedex, and more!

NEJM Resident 360
Prepare for your rotations, and provides support for coping with pressures of residency.

Individual and group study/work space
Hardin has individual and small group studies, as well as study carrels and tables. The 24-hour study is available to any UI-affiliated user with your hospital badge or Iowa ID card.

Printing
Black and white self printing is available for .03/side. Color printing is available for .15/side. Printing charges go to your staff account.

eduroam Secure Wireless
The eduroam wireless network is available at the Hardin Library, as well as unsecure guestnet.

Statistical Analysis Software
R, R Studio, SPSS, SAS, Stata and Mathematica are available from Information Technology Services via Virtual Desktop. Not all programs available off campus.

Institutional Repository
The University of Iowa Libraries has an institutional repository where you can deposit unpublished works, open access works, open educational resources and presentations. Contact sarah-andrews@uiowa.edu for more information. Materials in our repository are indexed in Google Scholar.

Books and DVDs for entertainment or families
As the 23th largest research library in the US/Canada, the UI Libraries system has 40,000+ DVDs and millions of books in many languages including Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Arabic as well as a large collection of children’s books. Search the catalog to find them. Materials can be sent to Hardin Library for pickup. You may request up to 15 items at one time and check out up to 1,000.

Apr 02 2019

Invisible Bias: Data Bias in a World Designed For Men | New e-book

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

The libraries now have an ebook with unlimited users of Caroline Criado Perez’s book Invisible Bias: Data Bias in a World Designed For Men.

NPR interview with Criado Perez

Mar 08 2019

Researchers: Find Funding and Collaborators | Pivot Database

Posted on March 8, 2019March 12, 2019 by Sarah Andrews

image of circle graph with $ in middle Pivot now makes it easier for researchers to search for potential collaborators and external funding opportunities.

University of Iowa faculty, staff, and students may now use the database to identify funding opportunities from governments, corporations, non-profit organizations, foundations, and other private sources. Users may also sign up to receive weekly funding alerts based on their search criteria. Tip: add relevant keywords to your profile in order to better identify relevant funding.

Pivot replaces the University of Iowa’s subscription to the SPIN funding database.

In addition to the funding search tools, Pivot also offers functionality to support research collaborations. Users can search for researcher expertise on the University of Iowa campus or at other institutions within the U.S. and internationally. 3M faculty profiles are included in the database.

Questions about using the Pivot database may be directed to Oliva Smith in the Division of Sponsored Programs at oliva-smith@uiowa.edu or 335-3708.

The launch of Pivot on the University of Iowa campus is a collaborative effort from the Research Development Office, Division of Sponsored Programs, and the UI Libraries.

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