A Manual on Diseases of the Nervous System (1886) by Dr. William Gowers By Luke Denney A Manual on Diseases of the Nervous System is a work by Dr. William Gowers (1845-1915). Published in two volumes, the first in 1886 and the second in 1889, this manual has been described as a Bible of Neurology […]
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McGraw-Hill First Aid Test Prep Platform to be Discontinued
McGraw-Hill is discontinuing its eBook Library platform and the Ruth Lilly Medical Library will not be able to renew its subscriptions to eBook collections on that platform. The First Aid Test Prep Collection will expire on April 30, 2024, the Clinical Medicine Collection will expire on June 13, 2024, and the First Aid for the […]
RLML Circulation Supervisor, Tré Quarles, MLIS, Accepts Position as Research Public Services Librarian at Harvard’s Countway Library
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 […]
History of Medicine Book of the Week: A Treatise on the Disease of Females (1831)
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 […]
Legacy IUSM Print Theses and Dissertations Now Available in IUPUI ScholarWorks
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 […]
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 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 […]
John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Talk with Speaker Wendy Kline Available Online
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 […]
History of Medicine Book of the Week: Woman and Her Diseases (1847)
"History of Medicine Book of the Week" is a series featuring blog posts written by students in the course, HIST H364/H546: The History of Medicine and Public Health (Instructor: Elizabeth Nelson, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University, Indianapolis). The following post is the first in the Spring 2024 series. Dr. Edward H. Dixon: Woman, and […]
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. 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 […]
Meet Ruth Lilly Medical Library Administrative Assistant, Em Bennett
The Ruth Lilly Medical Library welcomed Em Bennett to the RLML team as the new Administrative Assistant a few weeks after the start of the 2023 Fall Semester. Em studied technical writing and DEI leadership at IU. She comes to us from the School of Nursing where she worked as the Administrative Assistant to the […]