By Lauren Kassell ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Chiromancy, the art of palm reading, thrived in Renaissance Europe. Continue reading Source: NLM
Category: Hidden Treasure
The Artificial Teledioptric Eye, or Telescope, 1685–86
By Paula Findlen ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Installments of this lavishly illustrated encyclopedia of the anatomy, physiology, Continue reading Source: NLM
Mayerle’s Lithographed International Test Chart, 1907
By Stephen P. Rice ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. This multilingual eye-test chart, published in 1907, was the Continue reading Source: NLM
Huber the Tuber, 1943
By Steven Heller ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Tuberculosis attracted considerable attention from artists and writers. Along with Continue reading Source: NLM
“What do you See?”: Stereoscopic Pictures, 1942
By Hannah Landecker ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Most people have two eyes directed forward. In ophthalmology textbooks Continue reading Source: NLM
The Doctors: A Satire in Four Seizures, 1922
By Sander L. Gilman ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915), Arts and Crafts guru and follower Continue reading Source: NLM
The X-Ray, 1896
By Tal Golan ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Dr. William J. Morton (1845–1920) hurried this book, The X Continue reading Source: NLM
Symptoms in Schizophrenia
By Mark S. Micale ~ This essay was originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011 and also available on Medicine on Continue reading Source: NLM
Relics of the Infectious Past: Disease Warning Sign Collection
By Charles Rosenberg ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. The history of public health cannot be understood without artifacts Continue reading Source: NLM
Lifting the “Residual Veil”: Biomicroscopy of the Eye
By Hannah Landecker ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. An intense light that seems to shine directly into your Continue reading Source: NLM
Scope Magazine (1941–1957)
By R. Roger Remington ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Targeted at doctors, pharmacists, and other health professionals, Scope was Continue reading Source: NLM
First Science—Anatomy, 1829–30
By Michael Sappol and Eva Åhrén ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Once upon a time, before originality was Continue reading Source: NLM
Chinese Anti-Tuberculosis Flyers, ca. 1940
By Liping Bu ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Tuberculosis carried a social stigma for both the individual and Continue reading Source: NLM
A Book of Receipts of All Sorts (1693–1730s)
By Mary E. Fissell ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. In 1693 Elizabeth Strachey (ca. 1670–1722) wrote her name on Continue reading Source: NLM
Malaria Pinup Calendars, 1945
By Mike “Sport” Murphy Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. To young American GIs waging World War II in the Continue reading Source: NLM
Anti-Germ Warfare Campaign Posters, ca. 1952
A Patriotic Health Movement was launched throughout China: the Communist Party mobilized the masses to eliminate pests to prevent disease and contribute to the war effort. Continue reading Source: NLM
Molecular Biology Behind the Blackboard
By Paul Theerman ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. The photograph is dramatic, more dramatic in its own way Continue reading Source: NLM
A Universal Code: Nurse Uniforms of All Nations
By Anne Marie Rafferty ~ This essay on the International Nurse Uniform Photograph Collection, ca. 1950 was originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library Continue reading Source: NLM
Photography of the Invisible and Its Value in Surgery
By Tal Golan ~ Originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, 2011. Dr. William J. Morton (1845–1920) hurried his book The X-Ray: Or, Continue reading Source: NLM
The First Calamity of the Nuclear Age
The atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. In this report issued in November 1945, Japanese army doctors labored to describe what they had seen and done. Continue reading Source:…