#medical libraries

Special Libraries: Characteristics, Purpose, and Types.

healers, while occasionally one of them was associated with the greater gods at their celebrated sanctuaries. Temples of healing. There were many healing temples in the Valley, but eventually all the great medical centers were located at the chief capitals along the Nile; and large numbers of people, many travelling long distances, and others making annual pilgrimages, sought the curative beneficence of their favorite divinities. The remains of the temple at Phile and of Khonsu at Karnak afford ample testimony of the beauty and extent of such shrines, and are evi- dences of the honor and respect paid to the deities presid- ing over them. The great sanctuary of Thoth at Hermopo- lis, where a clinic for the gods was held during the long battle between Horus and Sêth for the succession, was renowned; and others of prominence were those of Neith, of Nekhbet, of Ptah, of I-m-hotep, and of Min at Panopo- lis (Epu), while, although Isis had little part in the politics of Egypt, her temple at Koptos was, perhaps, the most popular of all. Medical libraries. These healing shrines were reputed to be the deposi- tories of medical lore, and the ancient traditions are confirmed by lists of diseases and their cures, and by recently discovered evidence from the library ('hall of rolls') at Heliopolis, prescriptions found in the temple of Ptah, and inscriptions of the library of the temple at Edfu mentioning books which it contained "for the turn- ing aside of the cause of disease" (Clemens Alexandrinus, Stromata, vi, 4). Clement (ibid.), fully in accord with ancient traditional belief, also refers to forty-two her- 108 Budge, Gods, i, 489; also Wiedemann, Magie und Zauberei, p. 19. 107 Wilkinson, op. cit., ii, 355, 358; also Foucart, in ERE iv, 751.

Join the Special Collections Research Center in the Hatcher Graduate Library next Tuesday (13 December) at 4 pm for our final After Hours open house of the term exploring a selection of artifacts illustrating the early history of western medicine. Read more!

Estelle Brodman was an American medical librarian and medical historian. She held positions at Columbia University, the National Library of Medicine, and at Washington University School of Medicine where she was Library Director and Professor of Medical History from 1961 to 1981.

When a medical librarian has to get real with the graduate health sciences class, but whole swaths of them don’t subscribe to the idea that pain must be researched

When a librarian uses the Lord of the Rings fandom to relate library search tools and services to particular specialties in the field. 

The Edible Book Festival is traditionally done at the beginning of April, but we decided to be rebels and have it at the end. It was our first time doing it, and it was a success! While we allowed contestants to interpret any genre of book, we did get some submissions that were medically themed. Some of the most popular entries were Gray’s Anatomy interpreted using licorice, a very clever use of Peeps to illustrate a work on vaccination, and a very cool portrayal of...Grape’s Anatomy.

When a librarian uses a particularly egregious journal article that consists of <500 words which is now taken as a fact on South Dakota’s health website as an example of why you should conduct the smell test on evidence-based literature even from PubMed.