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RLML Circulation Supervisor, Tré Quarles, MLIS, Accepts Position as Research Public Services Librarian at Harvard’s Countway Library

RLML staff member Tré Quarles was recently awarded his MLIS degree and will be leaving IUSM soon for the position of Research Public Services Librarian at Countway Library at Harvard Medical School. Congratulations Tré, you will be missed.

  The Ruth Lilly Medical Library is bidding farewell to Tré Quarles. Tré has been the friendly and helpful Circulation Supervisor at the front desk since June 2019, and he recently graduated from the IUPUI Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with his Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree. While Tré will […]

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History of Medicine Book of the Week: A Treatise on the Disease of Females (1831)

"Taking Caudle" (baby, midwifery) drawn and etched by Richard Dagley, published in Takings, or, the Life of a Collegian, 1821. Copper etching with original hand colouring. Slight soiling and age browning, close trimmed to top marging with slight loss. Size about 16 x 12.5 cms including title, plus margins. Ref F3256. Courtesy of http://www.ancestryimages.com/

The Mystery of Childbed Fever: a 19th Century Understanding of Puerperal Fever By Madeline Brown An accelerated pulse, extreme abdominal pain, bloating, teeth-chattering chills, weakness, and decreased milk production were all signs of a mother stricken with childbed fever [1]. In the nineteenth century, it was often fatal. The first American epidemics of childbed fever […]

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Legacy IUSM Print Theses and Dissertations Now Available in IUPUI ScholarWorks

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The Ruth Lilly Medical Library is pleased to announce the culmination of a year-long project to improve the accessibility of IU School of Medicine print theses and dissertations in its collection by making them discoverable in our institutional repository, IUPUI ScholarWorks. This new collection includes preview scans and descriptions for over 1,000 theses and dissertations […]

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History of Medicine Book of the Week: Childbirth without Fear (1944)

Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth (1944) by Grantly Dick Read

Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth (1944) by Grantly Dick Read By Emily McNally To any twenty-first century woman interested in natural childbirth, one name rises above the rest: Ina May Gaskin (1940–), the famed American midwife. But even giants in the field credit their intellectual predecessors, and Gaskin’s is British […]

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John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Talk with Speaker Wendy Kline Available Online

John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society presents: "Exposed: The Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam" with speaker and author Wendy Kline, PhD. Tuesday, Feb 20, noon-1pm - Daly 186 and on zoom!

In case you missed last week's John Shaw Billings History of Medicine talk by Wendy Kline, “Exposed: The Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam”, cosponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, IU School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IU School of Medicine History of Medicine Student Interest Group, IUPUI Medical […]

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Stephen B. Trippel Total Joint Replacement Orthopedic Surgery Collection

The Ruth Lilly Medical Library is pleased to announce a new addition to the History of Medicine Collection that is now open for research.

The Ruth Lilly Medical Library is pleased to announce a new addition to the History of Medicine Collection that is now open for research. Arthrotek product literature for a meniscus screw (rlml-005-er-000001) The Stephen B. Trippel Total Joint Replacement Orthopedic Surgery Collection (4 linear feet, 9.6 gigabytes of digital files) consists of materials relating to […]

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