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St. Clair Mineral Springs

Staff #TravelTuesday August 4, 2020December 5, 2019Health resorts, Miracle cures, Spring water

This month we are visiting St. Clair County Michigan, home of the St. Clair Mineral Springs Company. St. Clair was a popular resort town with two luxurious hotels. The Oakland Hotel, built in 1881, and Somerville Hotel, built in 1888, had a combined 119 rooms that housed visitors.

Valley Ranch

Staff #TravelTuesday July 7, 2020December 5, 2019American Old West, Ranches

This month we are visiting the ranching valleys of Wyoming. Valley Ranch was located 45 miles from Cody, Wyoming, and was opened in 1915 by Irving H. Larry and Winthrop H. Brooks (of Brooks Brothers fame).

I Can’t Say

Staff Out of the stacks, Staff projects, Voices from our collection July 2, 2020June 30, 2020Amputations, Civil War medicine, Digital collections, Patient experiences, Silas Weir Mitchell, Veterans

– by Marie Hathaway, Library Assistant

Prior to the closing of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for COVID-19, my co-worker Kristen Pinkerton and I were working in the stacks at the Historical Medical Library processing journal volumes for deaccessioning and updating metadata for journals that will remain. Going through the collection volume by volume to update metadata allowed us to get to know the collection in ways we might not have based on researcher requests alone. We were continually surprised. Just in the week prior to closing I found a colorful pamphlet about WWII-era chemical warfare and Kristen found a year book featuring a medical student’s romantic poem about spermatozoa.

As we’ve transitioned from working in the stacks to working from home, Kristen and I have been helping to comb through another part of the library’s collection—its digital resources. Like the physical stacks, the online collection has proven to be full of surprising and fascinating information.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Silences in the LAMS: Digital Surrogacy in the Time of Pandemic

Staff Breaking news, Happenings June 2, 2020June 2, 2020Call for papers, CLIR-funded grant project, For the Health of the New Nation, PACSCL

CALL FOR PAPERS: “For the Health of the New Nation” Virtual Conference
Title: Silences in the LAMS: Digital Surrogacy in the Time of Pandemic
Date: October 12, 2020 (VIRTUAL)

Intro: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in conjunction with the CLIR-funded project For the Health of the New Nation (FHNN) through a partnership with the Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL), invites proposals for a one-day, online conference on the use of digital primary sources.

Crockett Warm Springs

Staff #TravelTuesday June 2, 2020December 4, 2019Health resorts, Hot springs, Spring water

This month we are back to Virginia to visit Crockett Springs Cottage in Montgomery County! The Crockett Warm Springs was part of the larger Lithia Springs Company and was also known as the Virginia Arsenic Bromide Company.

GIF Our Stuff!

Staff Education and outreach, Happenings, Out of the stacks May 20, 2020June 10, 2020Digital collections, GIFs, Medicine and the arts, Primary sources

Are you missing our collections as much we are? You can always view some items in our digital image library and on the Internet Archive.

Now we’re inviting you to interact with our digital images in a brand new way! Inspired by the annual GIF IT UP! contest, we’re asking you to create original animated GIFs using select digital content from our image library.
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Examining Letters to Understand Medical History: The Samuel Preston Moore Papers

Staff From our researchers, Out of the stacks, Voices from our collection May 6, 2020April 27, 2020American colonial medicine, Correspondence, Doctors and patients, Samuel Preston Moore

– by Wood Institute travel grantee Molly Nebiolo*

Samuel Preston Moore was a physician in Philadelphia in the mid-eighteenth century whose surviving letters reveal some of the deep connections physicians had within the Pennsylvania colony. In these letters, we can visualize the networks urban physicians had with more rural areas of the colony. Moore, who later became the provincial treasurer from 1754 to 1768 and was the treasurer of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1767-1768, is a good example of this because of the rich detail he includes in some of the letters housed at the Historical Medical Library at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (HML).[1]