The latest updates from the Hardin Library Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n Anatomy, geology, and spirituality | featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s July and time for a beloved week in television: Shark Week. These sleek, weird, and beautiful apex predators are mesmerizing and also a little terrifying. But what do sharks have to do with medicine? Surprisingly, quite a bit\u2014thanks to Elementorum myologiae specimen [A Sample of the Elements of Myology] (1667), a work by 17th-centuryContinue reading \"Anatomy, geology, and spirituality | featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Benjamin Bell\u2019s cancer treatise | featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Benjamin Bell (1749\u20131806), a pioneering Scottish surgeon and father of the Edinburgh school of surgery, authored A Treatise on the Hydrocele, on Sarcocele, or Cancer, and Other Diseases of the Testes (1791). Known for his rational, scientific approach to surgery, Bell also wrote the influential A System of Surgery (1783\u20131788). He was closely connected withContinue reading \"Benjamin Bell\u2019s cancer treatise | featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The invention of the stethoscope and a featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n This month, we highlight a book from the early 19th-century French physician who created the most iconic symbol of healthcare providers around the world. Assessing the condition of a patient in 1816, Ren\u00e9 La\u00ebnnec (1781\u20131826), rolled up a piece of paper to create a crude cone and proceeded to listen to the patient\u2019s chest sounds.Continue reading \"The invention of the stethoscope and a featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Vegetable materia medica of the US | featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n We present William Paul Crillon Barton\u2019s (1786\u20131856) masterwork, Vegetable materia medica of the United States (1817\u20131818). Barton was a well-known naval surgeon, medical botanist, artist, and professor. He was born on Nov. 17, 1786, in Philadelphia, to a family filled with people who made important contributions to every aspect of the early United States. BartonContinue reading \"Vegetable materia medica of the US | featured book from the John Martin Rare Book Room\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n New exhibition showcases recipes in the history of medicine<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Visit Hardin Library\u2019s new exhibit on the third floor to explore how home remedies developed into pharmacology. Starting with folks in the 16th\u201319th centuries, whose ailment treatments came from a trusted authority figure and consisted of any number of substances applied in any number of ways, ranging from the helpful to the ineffectual, to theContinue reading \"New exhibition showcases recipes in the history of medicine\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Pioneering female physican Aletta Jacobs | Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n This\u00a0Women\u2019s History Month, the John Martin Rare Book Room \u00a0highlights a book from the pioneering 19th-century Dutch physician and activist\u00a0Aletta Jacobs. Born in 1854 in the Netherlands, Jacobs chafed at the status quo and the limited educational opportunities for women in the Netherlands. She rejected the standard for Dutch girls at the time, \u201cfinishing school,\u201dContinue reading \"Pioneering female physican Aletta Jacobs | Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Notes on Johann Christian Reil, the first psychiatrist, from the John Martin Rare Book Room<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Reil, was an 18th-century medical multihyphenate: physician-anatomist-physiologist. He was also the first true psychiatrist by virtue of coining the term \u201cpsychiatry\u201d (or \u201cpsychiatrie\u201d in German). His\u00a0contributions to anatomy include the first description of the\u00a0arcuate fasciculus\u00a0in 1809 and the identification of anatomical features such as\u00a0Reil\u2019s finger\u00a0(later known as\u00a0Raynaud syndrome) and the\u00a0Islands of Reil\u00a0in the cerebral cortex.Continue reading \"Notes on Johann Christian Reil, the first psychiatrist, from the John Martin Rare Book Room\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n