Please join the Indiana University School of Medicine community as we learn about the “On the Walls” Project, and unveil the portrait of Clarence Lucas, ...

One of our dear friends and coworkers, Gloria Yancey, passed away unexpectedly on August 5, 2020. Gloria worked at the Ruth Lilly Medical Library for ...

Please join us on Monday, October 26 at 6pm (EST) for a virtual book event featuring librarian and author Megan Rosenbloom as she discusses her ...

The thin cord that is wrapped around the book Six Lectures on the Use of the Lungs and Causes Prevention and Cure of Pulmonary Consumption, Asthma, ...

He is considered to be the founder of modern bacteriology and notably was able to prove the bacterial cause of anthrax, cholera, and tuberculosis.

At just thirty-one pages and housed in an inconspicuous wrapper, Benjamin Waterhouse’s The Rise, Progress, and Present State of Medicine. A Discourse, Delivered at Concord, July 6th, ...

One of the significant and interesting items in our collection is a first edition of the first systematic book of surgery written by an American: ...

Ruth Lilly Medical Library is reopening our physical space with careful consideration of the health and safety of our employees and all of our visitors. ...

Known as the first history of medicine written by an Englishman, the genesis of John Freind’s The History of Physick contains a small, though interesting, ...

Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1869, Dr. Sarah Rebecca Parrish would go on to make noteworthy, international contributions to medicine. After several years working at North Indiana Hospital ...