MHL at two million images: a behind-the-scenes look at the project
(Above) A collage of images from Countway books recently digitized and added to the MHL This month, the Center for the History of Medicine contributed its two-millionth page-image to the Medical...
View ArticleDigital Highlights: Shut your mouth and save your life
A gallery of mouth-breathers adorns the cover of this strange work by George Catlin Among the collection of works on hygiene and general health that the Francis A. Countway Medical Library has...
View ArticleDigital Highlights: Civil War photography from the Army Medical Museum
Photograph and case history of Private Samuel Decker. He posed for this portrait at the Army Medical Museum along with the prostheses he developed after losing both hands to an artillery accident...
View ArticleDigital Highlights: Electricity in Medicine
Frontispiece from “An essay on electricity, the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it,” by George Adams, 1785, shows a physician applying current generated by an...
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