From the seventeenth century, women have played a small but significant role in exploring the world of insects by listing, drawing, and collecting them. Some women have also observed and recorded the extraordinary life histories of insects. Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828-1901) did all this before becoming the first woman…
https://discover.lshtm.ac.uk/permalink/44HYG_INST/1m9295r/alma991000243259703736 (catalogue entry – no digitized version available)
Theophilus Lobb, M.D. was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1678-1763). His biography makes interesting reading (1). Born to a pastor of independent dissenters in London, his education and career combined ministry…
Today, we will take a quick look at Henry C. Burdett’s book Cottage Hospitals General, Fever, and Convalescent. This book is part of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Library’s historical collection and can be found under the Barnard Classification Scheme classmark of SYBH (Cottage Hospitals…
History of the United States Sanitary Commission / by Charles J Stillé – New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1868.
For digitized copy (Wellcome Collection) follow this link:
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fynmu6gu
Founded in 1861 to support sick and wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army (Union Army) during the American Civil…
In this blogpost we take a look at a couple of books found in the Reece Collection, a collection of items largely on the topics of small pox and early vaccination once owned by Richard J Reece.
In the early 19th century, the advent of vaccination sparked intense debates within…
One of our current projects in the Collections Team is going through our historical collections and enhancing the catalogue records so that they conform to modern standards for rare books. One aspect of this process are the fields on the records relating to the provenance of the book in question…
This is a blog post about the book “The Inspection of Meat: A Guide and Instruction Book to Officers Supervising Contract-Meat and to All Sanitary Inspectors Embodying the Teaching Imparted to the Army Service Corps.” By W. Wylde. This item is part of the London School of Hygiene and…
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Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828-1901) : agricultural entomologist and an early authority on insect pest control. LSHTM Library Blog No. 10. June 2024
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Treatise on the small pox : in two parts, by Theophilus Lobb, MD. – London : printed for T. Woodward, 1731.
June 26, 2024
The Historical Collection: Cottage hospitals general, fever, and convalescent by Henry C. Burdett
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Clean Air Day 20th June 2024
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