Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery was published in 1911 by Frederick Strange Kolle, who was a medical doctor born in Germany and one of the original

Tucked away in the corner of the History of Medicine Room at the Ruth Lilly Medical library is a small, plain, green book titled Nature’s Remedies written

While our IUPUI Libraries may be physically closed, our librarians are still working hard to support our institution and taking on additional responsibilities during the

The copy of Laycock’s publication available at IUPUI’s Ruth Lilly Medical Library. For an 1840 print, this book is remarkably well preserved throughout.[i]   A

Figures 1-4 from the Ruth Lilly Medical Library copy of A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest, showing the anatomy of the early stethoscope,

Image from George Spratt’s Obstetric Tables, 1833.[i] A Medical Book Beyond its Time By BreShae Stewart One of the greatest contributions to the study of

Copper engraving of a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome (1656).[i] The Black Death through Modern Eyes By Michaela Runkle   Ralph H. Major, M.D. applies

Hadfield’s attempted assassination of King George III.[i] Detaining the Insane in 19th-Century Britain By Natashia Hayes Daniel Tuke’s Chapters in the History of the Insane

Americans celebrating the passing of the twenty-first amendment in 1933.[i] Alcoholism: From Past to Present By Mallery True   Around the time America was founded,

Copy of Shellshock and Its Lessons, 1917, located in the Leo J. McCarthy, MD, History of Medicine Room and Collection at the Ruth Lilly Medical