Congratulations to Beth Whipple on her new role as the Associate Director of Informationist Services at the Johns Hopkins Welch Medical Library! Beth will lead a team of 13 informationists and will be responsible for conceiving, planning, and directing information services to faculty, staff, and learners at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. Beth […]
Ruth Lilly Medical Library is pleased to announce a new subscription to DynaMedex. DynaMedex combines evidence-based content for clinical decision making along with drug information from Micromedex, making it an optimal point of care tool. Please note that DynaMedex will be replacing UpToDate, which will no longer be available after June 30th. 30-minute Familiarize yourself […]
Anorexia Nervosa: Its History, Psychology, and Biology (1960) by Dr. Eugene L. Bliss By Kalea Spurlock Anorexia Nervosa: Its History, Psychology, and Biology (1960) by Dr. Eugene L. Bliss is one of the earliest books written about anorexia nervosa. Though the disorder has been studied for hundreds of years, with the first possible written case […]
William P. Dewees, A Treatise on the Diseases of Females (1824) By Alexis Wright William P. Dewees (1768-1841) was a pioneer of perinatal medicine in the United States throughout the early 19th century [1]. Dewees obtained his medical degree in 1806 from the University of Pennsylvania, taking special interest into the fields of childbirth and […]
On Thursday, May 2nd, John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society guest speaker Richard L. Hapsel, MD, PhD, presented a lecture titled "Looking Back to Move Forward: Race and Transfusion Medicine”. The event was cosponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, IU School of Medicine Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, IUPUI […]
Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles, Daniel Hack Tuke (1882) By Grace Osborn Daniel Hack Tuke (1817-1895) was one of the best-known Victorian psychiatrists of the 1800s. Beginning with a career in law in Bradford, he found himself unhappy, and his deteriorating mental health made Tuke take it upon himself […]
Childcare and Family Management in the Victorian Period According to A Treatise on the Physiological and Moral Management of Infancy for the Use of Parents (1846), Andrew Combe By MaryRose Minnich A Treatise on the Physiological and Moral Management of Infancy: For the Use of Parents (1846) was written by Dr. Andrew Combe while he […]
The Ruth Lilly Medical Library is pleased to announce the creation of a collection in IU Digital Collections, a growing online repository of digitized historical materials held by various libraries, archives, and other units across eight Indiana University campuses. The Vascular Surgery Drawings Collection, 1963-1964 consists of 28 color drawings of vascular surgery procedures including […]
A Treatise (Second Edition, 1823) by Founder of Scientific Surgery John Hunter By Sophie Quick A Treatise on the Blood, Inflammation, and Gun-Shot Wounds (Second Edition, 1823), by Dr. John Hunter (1728-1793), “was considered the most important study of inflammation and has been widely quoted since,” [1] as the Treatise is considered a foundational source […]
A Treatise on Diseases of the Joints (2nd ed) (1881), Richard Barwell MD By Brett Mattingly The historical understanding of joints, the diseases that affect them, and the development of orthopedics was detailed by Doctor Richard Barwell (1827-1916) in his work, A Treatise on Diseases of the Joints, originally published in 1881. Barwell was a […]