The October issue of News from the Libraries is now available. For links to individual articles, see the table of contents below. Explore Human Anatomy in 3D with BodyViz 3D Printing: Cultivating Creative Collaborations Featured New Books/E-Books for October 2016 Upcoming 2016 Events for the Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library See all past issues […]
Read moreThe Friends of the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library welcome submissions for the 2016 essay competition in memory of Danny Jones, M.L.S., who served as Head of Special Collections at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Library and who was also a Past President of the Friends of the P.I. Nixon […]
Read moreThe August 2016 Historical Book of the Month highlights the oldest resource in the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library, De Medicina, published in Milan in 1481. Aulus Cornelius Celsus was a first-century Roman historian who compiled this set of treatises as a home health reference for wealthy Patrician families. It includes principles of good surgery, dental […]
Read moreThis month’s featured historical treasure is Osteographia, or The Anatomy of the Bones by William Cheselden. Published in London in 1753, this exquisite volume includes depictions of human and animal skeletons in interesting vignettes and in lifelike poses. His artists, Gerard van der Gucht and Jacob Schijnvoet, were the first to use the camera obscura […]
Read moreThe June 2016 Historical Book of the Month features the artistic masterpiece, Illustrations of the Great Operations of Surgery: Trepan, Hernia, Amputation, Aneurism, and Lithotomy by Charles Bell published in London in 1821. Sir Charles Bell was a Scottish surgeon, neurologist, and anatomist and namesake of such structures and phenomena as Bell’s Nerve, Bell’s Palsy, […]
Read moreThe May issue of News from the Libraries is now available. For links to individual articles, see the table of contents below. Damon Tweedy, MD Speaks at UTHSC History of Anatomy Class Historical Book of the Month Featured New Books New Leisure Books See all past issues of News From the Libraries
Read moreThis month’s highlighted historical book from the P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library is De Symmetria Partium in Rectis Formis Humanorum Corporum by Albrecht Dürer. This 1st Latin edition was translated from the original 1528 German edition and published in Nuremberg in 1532. Dürer was an influential artist, renowned print-maker, and respected contributor to the Northern […]
Read moreIn honor of Earth Day, this month’s chosen resource is Jacob Bigelow’s American Medical Botany, a 3-volume set published between 1817 and 1820 and one of the first titles published in the United States containing colored plant illustrations. Sixty beautiful colored plates were produced using a special process invented by Bigelow himself. Each entry includes […]
Read moreThe March 2016 Historical Book of the Month features this monumental work by Giovanni Battista Morgagni. De Sedibus, et Causis Morborum per Anatomen Indagatis Libri Quinque 2nd edition Published in Padua in 1765 The Seats and Causes of Diseases Investigated by Anatomy: In Five Books 1st English edition Published in London in 1769 Considered the […]
Read moreShirley Nah, MS II, Charleen Moore, PhD, and Philip T. Valente, MD will present Morbidity & Mortality and Morgagni at the March 2016 History of Medicine Society meeting. Giovanni Morgagni systematically indexed almost 700 postmortem examinations correlating the autopsy findings with the patient’s symptoms. The P.I. Nixon Medical Historical Library will have on display two […]
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