A Manual on Diseases of the Nervous System (1886), Dr. William Gowers By Luke Denney A Manual on Diseases of the Nervous System is a work by Dr. William Gowers (1845-1915). Published in two volumes, the first in 1886 and the second in 1889, this manual has been described as a Bible of Neurology [2]…. Read more »
Month: March 2024
McGraw-Hill First Aid Test Prep Platform to be Discontinued
McGraw-Hill is discontinuing its eBook Library platform and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library will not be able to renew its subscriptions to eBook collections on that platform. The First Aid Test Prep Collection will expire on April 30, 2024, the Clinical Medicine Collection will expire on June 13, 2024, and the First Aid for the… Read more »
RLML Circulation Supervisor, Tré Quarles, MLIS, Accepts Position as Research Public Services Librarian at Harvard’s Countway Library
The Ruth Lilly Medical Library is bidding farewell to Tré Quarles. Tré has been the friendly and helpful Circulation Supervisor at the front desk since June 2019, and he recently graduated from the IUPUI Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with his Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. While Tré will… Read more »
History of Medicine Book of the Week: A Treatise on the Disease of Females (1831)
The Mystery of Childbed Fever: a 19th Century Understanding of Puerperal Fever, William Potts Dewees By Madeline Brown An accelerated pulse, extreme abdominal pain, bloating, teeth-chattering chills, weakness, and decreased milk production were all signs of a mother stricken with childbed fever [1]. In the nineteenth century, it was often fatal. The first American epidemics… Read more »