{"id":409,"date":"2008-05-06T12:38:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T18:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2008\/05\/06\/rare-book-room-open-house-may-15\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T15:10:11","slug":"rare-book-room-open-house-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2008\/05\/06\/rare-book-room-open-house-may-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Book Room Open House &#8211; May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/u?\/jmrbr,447\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/files\/2008\/05\/scultetus-431.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"scultetus-431.jpg\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/rbr\/\">John Martin Rare Book Room <\/a>will hold its annual open house on Thursday, May 15 from 4:30 to 7:30.\u00a0The exhibit, \u201c\u2019No Small Presumption\u2019&#8211;Surgical Works From Six Centuries,\u201d will feature rare books from the earliest days of surgery through the twentieth century.\u00a0The event is open to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although chloroform and ether were not widely used before the second half of the 19th century, a surprising number of surgical procedures were employed hundreds and even thousand of years ago, including operations for cataracts, bullet removal, hernias, club foot, and bladder stones.\u00a0The open house will allow visitors to view and page through the early texts and illustrations used by surgeons for instruction and guidance.\u00a0Of special interest are the woodcuts and engravings of the elaborate and sometimes quite modern instruments developed over the centuries for specific tasks, including drills, scalpels, and saws designed with speed and efficiency in mind.\u00a0Important early works in anesthetics and antisepsis will also be featured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit is part of a series of public lectures and presentation sponsored by the University of Iowa History of Medicine Society.\u00a0The John Martin Rare Book Room is located on the fourth floor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uiowa.edu\/~maps\/h\/hlhs1.htm\">Hardin Library for the Health Sciences<\/a>.\u00a0 For additional information, please contact Ed Holtum, Curator at 335-9154.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John Martin Rare Book Room will hold its annual open house on Thursday, May 15 from 4:30 to 7:30.\u00a0The exhibit, \u201c\u2019No Small Presumption\u2019&#8211;Surgical Works From Six Centuries,\u201d will feature rare books from the earliest days of surgery through the twentieth century.\u00a0The event is open to the public.\u00a0 Although chloroform and ether were not widely<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2008\/05\/06\/rare-book-room-open-house-may-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Rare Book Room Open House &#8211; May 15&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}