by Meg | Jul 26, 2017 | Architecture, Archives, Art, Cultural Exchange, Ephemera, Ex Libris, History of Maryland Med, Library & Books, Physicians
I was in Canada last week for a short break and I took time to visit McGill University, Sir William Osler’s spiritual home.As you might remember, I got to know Sir William quite well when I transcribed and subsequently published a biography of him, from a...
by Meg | Mar 15, 2017 | Archives, Ex Libris, History of Maryland Med, Library & Books
MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society, is pleased to announce that 65 volumes of the Maryland Medical Journal, from 1878 to 1899, have been digitized and are now available to the public in a fully searchable version. Twentieth century medical journals from all 50...
by Meg | Feb 20, 2017 | Ephemera, Ex Libris, Library & Books
Have you ever heard of “Library Hand”, the uniform style of handwriting used in card catalogues? I just learned of it this weekend in the amazing Atlas Obscura, a website of all things wild and wonderful. It was created in the 1880’s before...
by Meg | Jan 23, 2017 | Archives, Ephemera, Ex Libris, Library & Books, Physicians
Over the weekend, I read the book “Tom Cullen of Baltimore” by Judith Robinson. It’s a semi-autobiography of Dr. Thomas S. Cullen (1868-1953), who studied gynecology under Dr. Howard Kelly at Johns Hopkins, arriving in Baltimore in 1891. The book was...
by Meg | Apr 8, 2016 | Ephemera, Ex Libris, Library & Books, On My Desk
On Friday afternoons, I generally poke around the archives and the stacks. Today, I was searching for something specific, which I didn’t find, to my chagrin. But I did find an early copy of the Dictionary of Chemicals, published in 1771. As I leafed through the...
by Meg | Nov 17, 2015 | Archives, Ex Libris, Library & Books, Magic Wand
From an article in the September 1890 issue of the Maryland Medical Journal! And so interesting that they’re talking about climate change in 1890, too!
