Friedrich Tiedemann
Tiedemann, Friedrich, 1781-1861
Engravings (prints)
Portraits
Reproduced from J. A. C. Schott, <em>Die Controverse über die Nerven des Nabelstrangs</em> (1836) in the Tiedemann Collection of the Boston Medical Library
Unknown
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English
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Commemorative medal of Friedrich Tiedemann
Tiedemann, Friedrich, 1781-1861
Medals
Anatomy
Tiedemann’s early research on the anatomy of the sea cucumber, sea urchin, and starfish earned him the 1812 prize of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. A commemorative bronze medal struck at the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate, in 1854, depicts Tiedemann in profile on the obverse and the starfish on the reverse, in recognition of this work.
Unknown
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Latin
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DigID0002870-71
William Osler at work
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
Photographs
Portraits
Unknown
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DigID0002497
Tichborne Justices
Tichborne, Roger, Sir
Orton, Arthur, 1834-1898
Photographs
<p>The Oliver Criminological Collection includes a substantial array of pamphlets, trial accounts, and popular ephemera from the sensational Tichborne Claimant case of the 1870s.</p>
<p>Orton, a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, who had been presumed lost at sea in 1854. Although Lady Tichborne, some other family members, and associates—over one hundred individuals—accepted him and initially supported his claim, Orton lost an 1871 trial over the Tichborne inheritance. He was then arrested on a charge of perjury, and, after a second trial, was convicted in 1874 and served ten years in prison. He died, impoverished, in 1898.</p>
Unknown
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English
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Tichborne Romance and Orton Reality
Tichborne, Roger, Sir
Orton, Arthur, 1834-1898
Lithographs
<p>The Oliver Criminological Collection includes a substantial array of pamphlets, trial accounts, and popular ephemera from the sensational Tichborne Claimant case of the 1870s.</p>
<p>Orton, a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, who had been presumed lost at sea in 1854. Although Lady Tichborne, some other family members, and associates—over one hundred individuals—accepted him and initially supported his claim, Orton lost an 1871 trial over the Tichborne inheritance. He was then arrested on a charge of perjury, and, after a second trial, was convicted in 1874 and served ten years in prison. He died, impoverished, in 1898.</p>
Hornet Gift Cartoon
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Four portraits from life, of the claimant
Tichborne, Roger, Sir
Orton, Arthur, 1834-1898
Photographs
Portraits
<p>The Oliver Criminological Collection includes a substantial array of pamphlets, trial accounts, and popular ephemera from the sensational Tichborne Claimant case of the 1870s.</p>
<p>Orton, a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, who had been presumed lost at sea in 1854. Although Lady Tichborne, some other family members, and associates—over one hundred individuals—accepted him and initially supported his claim, Orton lost an 1871 trial over the Tichborne inheritance. He was then arrested on a charge of perjury, and, after a second trial, was convicted in 1874 and served ten years in prison. He died, impoverished, in 1898.</p>
Unknown
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A copy of verses on the horrid murder of a little girl at Longden in Shropshire, by a man named Mapp
Mapp, John
Lewis, Catherine
Woodcuts (prints)
<p>The John Rathbone Oliver Criminological Collection includes a number of popular English broadside ballads commemorating murders, rare trials, and executions as part of Oliver’s interest in psychiatry and criminal motivation. Catherine Lewis, a nine-year-old girl, disappeared on December 22, 1867; the next day her father found her, suffocated by a shawl and with her throat severed. A neighbor, John Mapp, was charged with the murder and convicted. On the morning before his execution, Mapp confessed to the crime:</p>
<p><em> When I parted with Jane Richards at the Short Lane gate, Catherine Lewis and myself walked together for a few yards. I ketched hold of her hand, and she said, ‘Do you live by Edward Mason’s?’ and I said ‘Yes.’ When I had her by the hand she began to cry, and I believe she shouted out, but I am not quite sure. She ran to the gate and got over it—I suppose she was frightened at me. As she got over it I was close after her, and when I got over it the gate fell, but I did not fall. When I got up to her she was lying under the hedge, and I asked her to let me do something to her. She said she wouldn’t let me. She then told me she’d tell her father. She was crying. I said to her, ‘Well, if you tell your father I’ll cut your throat.’ I then pulled out my knife and I cut her throat. She was lying on the ground, and I was kneeling at her left side. I got up and wiped the knife with some grass, and then wiped it on her pinner. I then undid the shawl and put the brooch in my pocket, and then put the shawl in her mouth. I am not, however, quite certain whether I pushed the shawl into her mouth before I cut her throat or afterwards, but I did put it in. I then got up and turned her head round, and pulled her down the field by her right hand. She was not dead when I started with her, but she was quite dead before I got to the bottom of the field. I put her in the building where she was found. I think the mark on her forehead was caused by the heel of my boot touching her as I pulled her down the field. I did not strike her. I was very sorry after I done it.</em></p>
<p>John Mapp was executed April 9, 1868—he was the last person to be publicly executed in Shropshire—just a month before the end of public executions in England.</p>
Unknown
W. S. Fortey, General Steam Printer and Publisher
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Charles Guiteau
Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882
Photographs
Portraits
Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893.
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English
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De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem
Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 1545-1599
Engravings (prints)
Surgery, plastic
This landmark text—the first work devoted to plastic surgery and reconstruction—was produced by Gaspare Tagliacozzi, a professor of anatomy and surgery at Bologna. The <em>De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem (“On the surgical restoration of defects by grafting”)</em> describes the theory and practice of operations to repair the nose, lips, and ears using skin grafts taken from the upper arm of the patient.
Tagliacozzi, Gaspare, 1545-1599
Apud Gasparem Bindonum iuniorem
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DigID0002845-48
Harris Kennedy
Kennedy, Harris
Photographs
Portraits
Unknown
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Bookplate of the Solomon M. Hyams Collection of Medical Hebraica and Judaica
Hyams, Solomon M.
Bookplates
Unknown
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English
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Bookplate of Christian Deetjen
Deetjen, Christian, 1863-1940
Bookplates
Unknown
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L'anatomie de l’homme, suivant la circulation du sang, et les nouvelles decouvertes...
Dionis, Mr (Pierre), -1718
Frontispieces (illustrations)
Anatomy
While Harvard Medical School received the Warren Library as a bequest of Dr. John Warren (1874-1928), the Boston Medical Library received an endowment of $5000 by his will to establish a fund to acquire rare medical books, particularly works of anatomical interest. This copy of Dionis’ text on anatomy is a sixth edition; the library now holds specimens of all the early editions of <em>L’anatomie de l’homme</em>, with the exception of the first (1690).
Dionis, Mr (Pierre), -1718
Veuve d
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French
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DigID0002862
Curso de botanica medica
Dura
Botany, Medical
Etchings (prints)
This is a second edition of Durañona’s basic textbook for the study of medicinal plants and their uses.
Durañona, Lucio
La Ciencias
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Spanish
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DigID0002863
Norman E. Himes
Himes, Norman Edwin, 1899-1949
Photographs
Portraits
Unknown
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Bookplate of Norman E. Himes
Himes, Norman Edwin, 1899-1949
Bookplates
Unknown
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English
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Bookplate of Leona Baumgartner
Baumgartner, Leona, 1902-1991
Bookplates
Unknown
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Girolamo Fracastoro
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
Fracastoro, Girolamo, 1478-1553
Engravings (prints)
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598
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Latin
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Anatomie der Rohren-Holothurie des pomeranzfarbigen Seesterns und Stein-Seeigels
Tiedemann, Friedrich, 1781-1861
Excerpts
Anatomy
Tiedemann’s early research on the anatomy of the sea cucumber, sea urchin, and starfish earned him the 1812 prize of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
Tiedemann, Friedrich, 1781-1861
in der Joseph Thomannschen Buchdruckerei
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German
text
DigID0002849
Friedrich Tiedemann's Bucher-Sammlung
Tiedemann, Friedrich, 1781-1861
Title pages
Excerpts
Book catalogs
In 1854, increasing blindness forced Friedrich Tiedemann to resign his position at Heidelberg and sell the anatomical and physiological library which he had been collecting and using for over fifty years. Tiedemann sent copies of this printed catalogue of the holdings to the United States.
Tiedemann, Friedrich, 1781-1861
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German
text
DigID0002840
Aristotelous
Aristotle
Excerpts
Collected works
This is a rare early Greek edition of the collected medical and scientific works of Aristotle and contains texts on birth and death, youth and old age, respiration, divination, sleep, and memory.
Aristotle
Andreae Wecheli
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Greek
text
DigID0002844
An attempt to investigate some obscure and undecided doctrines in relation to small-pox, varioloid and vaccination
Bell, Luther Vose, 1806-1862
Inscriptions
Bookplates
The endpapers of this short work on smallpox vaccination contain a bookplate of Dr. Addison Marshall Clark (1857-1919), an Ohio surgeon, along with an 1894 inscription from Dr. Howard A. Kelly (1853-1943), presenting it to William Osler as <em>“a small addition to your Americana.”</em> It was then given by Osler to Joseph Hersey Pratt in 1905 who intended to give it to the Osler Library at McGill University in 1930 but then also presented it to Dr. Conrad Wesselhoeft of Boston, in 1943, before its donation to the Boston Medical Library.
Bell, Luther Vose, 1806-1862
Marsh, Capen and Lyon
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English
text
DigID0002841
The principles and practice of medicine
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
Excerpts
Medicine
Cousland, Philip Brunelleschi, 1861-1930 (translator)
Drawn from the fifth and sixth English editions, this translation of Osler’s textbook by medical missionary Dr. Philip B. Cousland (1861-1930) is the first issue of the first Chinese edition; copies of a second (1921) and third (1925) edition are also in the Osler Collection. In his preface, Cousland states that, <em>“Diseases rare or unknown in China have been dealt with somewhat tersely, while others have been taken in whole or in part from Sir Patrick Manson’s </em>Tropical diseases<em>. The geographical distribution and incidence in China have been given as far as could be ascertained…. Such matter as is only appropriate to the West has been omitted…. The Publication Committee is under special obligation to Prof. Osler for his hearty concurrence in this endeavor to give his book to the Chinese in their own language.”</em>
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
Publication Committee, China Medical Missionary Association
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Chinese
text
DigID0002873
A Plea for Roger
Tichborne, Roger, Sir
Orton, Arthur, 1834-1898
Engravings (prints)
Poetry
Satires (document genre)
<p>The Oliver Criminological Collection includes a substantial array of pamphlets, trial accounts, and popular ephemera from the sensational Tichborne Claimant case of the 1870s, including this broadside satirical poem defending the claims of Arthur Orton to be the missing Tichborne heir.</p>
<p>Orton, a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, who had been presumed lost at sea in 1854. Although Lady Tichborne, some other family members, and associates—over one hundred individuals—accepted him and initially supported his claim, Orton lost an 1871 trial over the Tichborne inheritance. He was then arrested on a charge of perjury, and, after a second trial, was convicted in 1874 and served ten years in prison. He died, impoverished, in 1898.</p>
Unknown
Disley
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English
text
Am I the real Sir Roger
Tichborne, Roger, Sir
Orton, Arthur, 1834-1898
Etchings (prints)
Poetry
<p>The Oliver Criminological Collection includes a substantial array of pamphlets, trial accounts, and popular ephemera from the sensational Tichborne Claimant case of the 1870s.</p>
<p>Orton, a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, who had been presumed lost at sea in 1854. Although Lady Tichborne, some other family members, and associates—over one hundred individuals—accepted him and initially supported his claim, Orton lost an 1871 trial over the Tichborne inheritance. He was then arrested on a charge of perjury, and, after a second trial, was convicted in 1874 and served ten years in prison. He died, impoverished, in 1898.</p>
Unknown
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English
text
The Tichborne case in a nutshell
Tichborne, Roger, Sir
Orton, Arthur, 1834-1898
Pamphlets
<p>The Oliver Criminological Collection includes a substantial array of pamphlets, trial accounts, and popular ephemera from the sensational Tichborne Claimant case of the 1870s.</p>
<p>Orton, a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, claimed to be Sir Roger Tichborne, who had been presumed lost at sea in 1854. Although Lady Tichborne, some other family members, and associates—over one hundred individuals—accepted him and initially supported his claim, Orton lost an 1871 trial over the Tichborne inheritance. He was then arrested on a charge of perjury, and, after a second trial, was convicted in 1874 and served ten years in prison. He died, impoverished, in 1898.</p>
A Lover of Truth
Holligsworth & Atkinson
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English
text
DigID0002874-75
Sphera cum commentis in hoc volumine contentis videlicet Cichi Esculani cum textu...
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
Excerpts
Astronomy
Sacrobosco’s astronomical work, <em>De sphaera</em>, was produced circa 1220 and describes the shape of the world, the movement of the planets, and eclipses according to the geometry of Ptolemy. The work was first printed at Ferrara in 1472; there were over twenty different editions printed before 1501. This printing, from 1518, contains over a dozen separate commentaries in addition to the text. The Boston Medical Library also holds a copy of one of the incunable editions, printed in Venice in 1499.
Sacro Bosco, Joannes de, active 1230
impensa heredum Octauiani Scoti
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Latin
text
DigID0002872
The natural method of cureing the diseases of the body, and the disorders of the mind depending on the body
Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743
Title pages
Hygiene
Diet
<p>This copy of the second edition of George Cheyne’s work on disease is a rare and notable survivor of the disastrous Harvard fire of 1762. On the night of January 24th, during a storm of snow and high wind, Harvard Hall, containing the College’s books and scientific apparatus, caught fire. Over 5,000 volumes were destroyed, with only 404 surviving, the books being either on loan or recent donations not yet unpacked. Today, 67 books which survived the fire can be identified, and eight of these are in the collections of the Countway.</p>
<p>The Cheyne volume, along with another fire survivor, <em>A new method of treating consumptions</em> (1727) by Nicholas Robinson, have been recently digitized and are now available through the Medical Heritage Library project.</p>
Cheyne, George, 1671 or 1672-1743
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text
The truth and the removal
Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882
Title pages
Autobiography
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
Assassination
<p><em>The truth and the removal</em> is Charles Guiteau’s autobiographical defense of his assassination of James A. Garfield and an account of his own trial, written while he was in prison and awaiting execution. This is Guiteau’s own copy, and it was recently digitized as part of the Medical Heritage Library project.</p>
<p>Guiteau said, <em>“My book, </em>The truth and the removal<em> … will enable a competent historian to write my life & work accurately. My theological views will probably attract more permanent attention than anything else connected with my life.”</em> Charles Guiteau presented this volume along with some of his manuscript poems to William Watkin Hicks the night before his execution. Hicks recorded, <em>“In doing so, he expressed gratitude to me for kindness shown to him, and begged me to declare to the world that he was sane to the last…. And then smilingly but with moist eyes said, </em>‘I am sorry to part from you, faithful friend, and wish you were going along’<em>!”</em></p>
Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882
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English
Handbuch der plastischen Chirurgie
Zeis, Eduard
Title pages
Surgery, plastic
In this comprehensive manual on the history and practice of reconstructive surgery, Zeis coins the term “plastic surgery” as a specialty. The volume was recently digitized as part of the Medical Heritage Library project.
Zeis, Eduard
G. Reimer
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German
text
The seaman's medical advocate
Arthy, Elliot, 1765-
Title pages
Yellow fever
Medicine, naval
Arthy, a naval surgeon, outlines the heavy losses to the British navy due to yellow fever, suggesting ways to limit the exposure of seamen, and calling for more and better educated naval surgeons to treat them.
Arthy, Elliot, 1765-
printed for Messrs Richardson, Royal-Exchange; and Mr. Egerton, opposite the Admiralty
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English
text
DigID0002843
The medical pocket-book
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
Excerpts
Medicine
Interleaves
This encyclopedia of popular medical practice lists common diseases and treatments. The pages are interleaved with manuscript notes by an unnamed reader who contrasts John Elliot’s recommendations with information culled from an English translation of John Brown’s <em>Elementa medicinae</em>—probably the edition printed in London in 1795.
Elliot, John, 1747-1787
printed for J. Johnson
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English
text
DigID0002842
The book of knowledge, treating of the wisdom of the ancients in four parts
Erra Pater
Frontispieces (illustrations)
Title pages
Woodcuts (prints)
Judaica
Editions of <em>The book of knowledge</em>, a popular astrological and medical work, begin to appear in the 1530s and were printed regularly in England and America into the early 19th century. Although described on the title-page as <em>“a Jew, Doctor in Astronomy and Physic, born in Bethany, near Mount Olivet, in Judea,”</em> Erra Pater was not a real person.
Erra Pater
J. and M. Robertson
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English
text
DigID0002850
Perspectivas bioeticas en las americas
Perspectivas bio
Bioethics
Journals (periodicals)
The Jackson fund allows for the acquisition of both historical and contemporary works in Latin American medicine, and the Countway now holds a complete run of this bioethical journal from 1996 until the present.
Perspectivas bio
FLACSO, Sede Academica Argentina
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Spanish
text
DigID0002869
Contraceptive methods and appliances
George, W.
Excerpts
Sales catalogs
Contraceptives
This product catalog from a London-based firm of chemists advertises an array of mail-order birth control methods and devices, including sponges, pessaries, condoms, and diaphragms, as well as printed literature on contraception and marriage.
George, W.
Georges Chemists, Ltd.
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English
text
DigID0002860
Medical history of contraception
Himes, Norman Edwin, 1899-1949
Title pages
Contraceptives
Sociologist Norman Edwin Himes (Ph.D. Harvard, 1932) researched problems of population, birth control, and marriage and family relations. His <em>Medical history of contraception</em> tracks the development of birth control from antiquity to the 1930s; the text was reprinted in 1963 and in 1970. In 1984, the Boston Medical Library received a bequest of Marian K. Weinberg, the former wife of Himes, to establish the Norman E. Himes Book Fund to acquire rare books and manuscripts, particularly items relating to birth control as a tribute to his areas of interest. This fund originated in the royalties, copyrights, and contracts from her husband
Himes, Norman Edwin, 1899-1949
George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
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English
text
DigID0002861
Syphilis, ou, Le mal venerien
Fracastoro, Girolamo, 1478-1553
Excerpts
Poetry
Syphilis
This facing-page Latin and French edition of the <em>Syphilis</em> poem was presented to Leona Baumgartner from John Farquhar Fulton; it is the first French translation. The text has been recently digitized and made available through the Medical Heritage Library project.
Fracastoro, Girolamo, 1478-1553
chez Jacques-Fran
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Latin
French
text
DigID0002868
De puerorum morbis
Austrius, Sebastianus, -1550
Title pages
Pediatrics
This work by Austrius from the Leona Baumgartner collection is one of the earliest texts devoted to the diseases of children and draws heavily on the writings of Cornelis Roelans in the 15th century and the 7th century Greek physician, Paul of Aegina.
Austrius, Sebastianus, -1550
Lugduni, Apud Guliel. Rouil.
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Latin
text
DigID002867
Opera Omnia Ysaac
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
Collected Works
Title pages
Woodcuts (prints)
This first printed edition of the collected works of Isaac Israeli includes the tract on fevers. The title-page woodcut depicts an impossible meeting of Isaac with his eleventh century commentators Constantine the African and Ibn Abi al-Rijal.
Israeli, Isaac, approximately 832-approximately 932
curavit ea imprimi Bartholomeus Trot in officina Johannis de Platea
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Latin
text
DigID0002708
John Alexander Benson consulting volumes in the Warren Library
Benson, John Alexander
Photographs
Warren Library
Five generations of physicians and educators in the Warren family assembled over 2,000 books, pamphlets, and manuscripts on medicine and surgical practice. At his death in 1928, Dr. John Warren bequeathed to the Harvard Medical Library this magnificent collection which forms the nucleus of the Warren Library. Originally shelved in cabinets in an alcove on the second floor of Gordon Hall, beneath the Warren Anatomical Museum, the Warren Library is now one of the special collections housed at the Countway Library of Medicine.
Unknown
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Etherization, with Surgical Remarks
Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856
Title pages
Anesthesia
<p>Following the first public operation with ether anesthesia, Dr. John Collins Warren began to assemble data from over 200 surgical cases to promote the discovery, hoping to change <em>"the slow progress of the practice of etherization in this country beyond the vicinity of its first introduction, compared with its rapid extension on the other side of the Atlantic."</em></p>
<p>This copy of <em>Etherization</em> was presented by John Collins Warren to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), then on the faculty of Harvard College. Longfellow said, <em>"I rejoice that such a calm, dispassionate and firm approval of the great discovery should appear from your pen to cheer the timid, and convince the skeptical. The words you have spoken will have great weight for you speak with authority, and have an indisputable right to speak."</em> Longfellow, too, had a right to speak as, just a year earlier, his wife, Fanny, became the first woman in the United States to undergo childbirth with anesthesia.</p>
Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856
William D. Ticknor and Company
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English
text
Malleus maleficarum
Incunabula
Excerpts
Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505
Sprenger, Jakob, 1436 or 1438-1495
This is a first edition of the <i>Malleus maleficarum</i> [<i>The Witches' Hammer</i>], the foremost legal and theological handbook on witchcraft and demonology. It describes the operations of witches, remedies against spells, and the judicial proceedings of ecclesiastical and civil courts against witches and heretics. Twenty-eight editions of the <i>Malleus maleficarum</i> were produced before 1600, and it was still consulted in the eighteenth century.
Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505
Sprenger, Jakob, 1436 or 1438-1495
Peter Drach
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Latin
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DigID0002516
A Discourse upon the Institution of Medical Schools in America
Harvard Medical School
Morgan, John, 1735-1789 (author)
Warren, John, 1753-1815
Inscriptions
The first book to be published on medical education in America was written by Dr. John Morgan, who founded the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, the nation’s first medical school, in 1765. This particular copy is notable for its fly-leaf presentation inscription from Morgan himself to Dr. John Warren (1753-1815) in 1783, just after Warren had been charged by the Corporation of Harvard College with the formation of a plan for medical instruction. This was the beginning of Harvard Medical School.
Morgan, John, 1735-1789
William Bradford
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English
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Illustration of the parts of the body as a house
Cohn, Tobias ben Moses, 1652-1729
Woodcuts (prints)
Anatomy
Polish physician Tobias ben Moses Cohn knew nine languages and was court physician to five sultans in Adrianople. In 1724, he moved to Jerusalem. The <em>Ma’aseh Tobiyyah</em> [“Works of Tobias”] is an encyclopedia of theology, botany, astronomy, and medicine, and is remarkable for being the first work in Hebrew to mention the medicinal properties of tobacco. The illustration here compares the rooms and functions of a house with the organs of the human body.
Cohn, Tobias ben Moses, 1652-1729
Ye’snits : Nidpas paʻam rishon be-Ṿinitsiʼah, ṿe-ʻatah nidpas paʻam shenit poh ḳ.ḳ. be-Yesnits ... Be-mitsṿat baʻal ha-madpis Yiśraʼel bar Avraham,
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