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Food Tips from the Fairies
Today we are celebrating Food Day, “a nationwide celebration and movement toward more healthy, affordable, and sustainable food.” Concerns about good food, and encouraging children to enjoy it, are...
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Mirroring Medicine: Of Mice and Men
Medal issued to commemorate Louis Pasteur’s 70th birthday, 1892. Medals, amulets, badges and prizes play many roles, whether acknowledging significant figures in their fields, commemorating events, or...
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Pox and Politics
Edward Jenner. An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ. London:1798. Edward Jenner’s An Inquiry Into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ was published in 1798 and...
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Skulls and Surgery
Plaster casts of skulls held in the NYAM Rare Book Reading Room, some showing signs of trepanation. The practice of trepanning, or trepanation, which involved making a hole in the skull, is one of the...
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“Die Free”: Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Surgeon’s Certificate for Dick Parker Wills 1903More than 200,000 African men served in the Union Army’s United States Colored Troops during the Civil War. Among them were James Wills, Mack Wills, Dick...
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Putting Asthma on the Map
Map from The South-west and New Mexico for phthisis, weak lungs, asthma, bronchitis, etc. Chicago: American Health Resort Association, 1891. On Wednesday, December 12, 2012, Carla Keirns, MD, PhD, from...
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History Night: Seeking Submissions
The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health is pleased to announce its Third Annual History Night to be held on April 8, 2013, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. The...
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“Nature” and Motherhood
Image courtesy of Jessica Martucci. Our special mini-series issues related to environmental history, A World Not Quite Fatal: New Views on the History of Environmental Health, continues this Thursday,...
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Mother Eve’s Pudding Redux
Last month, we kicked off National Poetry Month by sharing a rhyming recipe for Eve’s Pudding from our manuscript collection. Although charming, the recipe lacked the level of specificity to which most...
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For your viewing pleasure
This Wednesday’s 2013 New York Academy of Medicine Gala featured the following video on the Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health. If you would like to learn more about our work or visit...
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Festival of Medical History & the Arts
We are excited to announce our first all-day extravaganza, co-curated by Lawrence Weschler, Morbid Anatomy, and the Center, and featuring esteemed speakers, artists workshops, behind-the-scenes tours,...
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“Physica Sacra,” Johannes Jacob Scheuchzer, 1731 : Guest Post by Morbid...
Greetings. My name is Joanna Ebenstein; I run a blog called Morbid Anatomy as well as the related Morbid Anatomy Library—an open-to-the-public research collection in Brooklyn, New York—and the Morbid...
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“Artist of Death” Frederik Ruysch at NYAM: Guest Post by Morbid Anatomy’s...
1720 frontispiece to Opera Omnia, 1721. My very favorite figure operating at the intersections of art and medicine–and probably the most bizarre to the modern eye–is Dutch anatomist, artist,...
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17th Century Anatomical Striptease: Guest Post by Morbid Anatomy
Another series of most wonderful and enigmatic anatomical illustrations in the New York Academy of Medicine historical library collections are to be found in De humani corporis fabrica libri decem,...
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Winsome Fetal Skeletons Bearing Scythes: Monro’s Traité d’ostéologie of 1759:...
A note from the Center for the History of Medicine & Public Health: This is the last post in Morbid Anatomy‘s guest series leading up to our Festival of Medical History and the Arts. If you’ve...
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Festival of Medical History and the Arts Survey
Thanks to everyone who came to our first Festival of Medical History and the Arts on Saturday! It was a great day, with over 1,000 visitors — we’ll be posting more on the day soon, but in the meantime...
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Shadow Journals: The Story of Medical Advertising (Part 1 of 3)
Today we have part one of a guest post written by David Herzberg, Ph.D., who will present “The Other Drug War: Prescription Drug Abuse and Race in 20th-Century America” on Tuesday, October 22. Read...
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Shadow Journals: The Story of Medical Advertising (Part 2 of 3)
Today we have part two of a guest post written by David Herzberg, Ph.D., who will present “The Other Drug War: Prescription Drug Abuse and Race in 20th-Century America” on Tuesday, October 22. Read...
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Thank You! Festival of Medical History and the Arts Wrap-Up
By Lisa O’Sullivan, Director, Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health Whew! Our first Festival of Medical History and the Arts was a great success; more than 1,000 people attended and...
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Shadow Journals: The Story of Medical Advertising (Part 3 of 3)
Today we have the third and final part of a guest post written by David Herzberg, Ph.D., who will present “The Other Drug War: Prescription Drug Abuse and Race in 20th-Century America” on Tuesday,...
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