Wallace

Historical Book of the Week: Blood-Pressure Its Clinical Applications (1927)

Traditional physicians were hesitant to take up new instruments like the sphygmomanometer (pictured) because they felt they were losing their skills and expertise.[i] The Importance

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CopeBookCover

Historical Book of the Week: The Physician Himself, and What He Should Add to His Scientific Acquirements (1882)

The cover of Daniel Webster Cathell’s book, The Physician Himself, and What He Should Add to His Scientific Acquirements. A second-edition copy, published in 1882,

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Sparks

Historical Book of the Week: The Collected Syllabi of Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter (1850)

Wood engraving depicting the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.[i] The Collected Syllabi of Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter By Kylie Sparks Formally titled Syllabus of the

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Messbarger slide 2.20.2019

Upcoming History of Medicine Talk on February 20th

2018 History of Medicine Talks Co-sponsored by the Ruth Lilly Medical Library, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, History of Medicine Student Interest Group, John

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power outage slide 2.2019

The Library will be closed Feb. 2nd and Feb. 9th due to a planned power outage

The Ruth Lilly Medical Library will be closed on Saturdays, Feb. 2nd and Feb. 9th due to a planned power outage. No one will be

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Greiser

Historical Book of the Week: The Work of the Digestive Glands (1902)

Figure depicting the stomach, in Ivan Pavlov’s The Work of the Digestive Glands.[1] Ivan Pavlov, the Accidental Psychologist By Matt Grieser Most who have heard

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Boknecht

Historical Book of the Week: Evolution of Medicine (1927)

In the mid-19th century, John Snow used/created this map and found that the source of cholera was un-sanitized water from the Broad Street pump.[i] Evolution

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MLK slide

The Library will be closed for MLK Day

Ruth Lilly Medical Library will be closed Monday, Jan. 21st to observe the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. We will resume regular hours on Tuesday,

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New website URL

The Library has a new internal website address

The Ruth Lilly Medical Library has changed its internal website url from https://mednet.medicine.iu.edu/medical-library/ to https://library.mednet.iu.edu/ effective January 2nd, 2019. The old url will be set to redirect

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Library Winter Break Hours and Holiday Closings

The Ruth Lilly Medical Library will be open reduced hours during winter break starting on December 15th and closed for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and

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