by Meg | Jan 7, 2020 | Cultural Exchange, Ex Libris, Library & Books
18 Tiny Deaths:The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern ForensicsMedChi and the Center for a Healthy Maryland are proud to host the launch for 18 Tiny Deaths on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. in MedChi’s historic...
by Meg | May 7, 2019 | Cultural Exchange, Ex Libris, Library & Books, Marcia for the Holidays
The 2019 Marcia C. Noyes Award, given by the Medical Library Association, has a special meaning this year, both professionally to our organization and personally to me, your blog author. Not only is it the 100th Anniversary of the death of MLA founder, Sir...
by Meg | Dec 11, 2018 | Ephemera, Ex Libris, On My Desk
One of the most interesting things in our collection is a number of boxes of photographs from “Edinburgh Anatomy” which contain hundreds of slides. In 1905, David Waterston edited “The Edinburgh Stereoscopic Atlas of Anatomy”, which...
by Meg | Oct 16, 2017 | Ephemera, Ex Libris, Library & Books, Physicians
I was looking through our collection of bookplates the other day and noticed something interesting. In the plates which were designed by the noted medical illustrator, Max Brödel, you often find owls. Of course, owl symbols are a tradition for many libraries...
by Meg | Aug 28, 2017 | Archives, Ex Libris, Library & Books
In March 1915, Revere Osler went off with one of the Canadian contingents, and was given duty at one of the hospitals as an orderly officer. The hospital was one of the best in England, and had been erected at Cliveden, the Astor estate. Osler was a consultant to...
by Meg | Aug 22, 2017 | Ephemera, Ex Libris
Shockingly, we do not seem to have a copy of Osler’s Practice of Medicine in our collection. I am positive that there must have been one here at some point. Surely the good Sir William Osler himself must have given a copy? But as I’ve searched the shelves...
