The human body and how to use it: a Jewish copy of a Christian medical work
A hundred more manuscripts from the John Rylands Library’s Hebrew Collection have just been published on the Manchester Digital Collections website.
Tag: Medical manuscripts
Thomas Radford and Obstetrical Teaching
Thomas Radford spent his working life in Manchester and dedicated much of his time to St Mary’s Hospital for Women andContinue Reading
A Doctor’s View of Industrial Manchester
“The lodge-keeper admitted them into a great oblong yard, on one side of which were offices for the transaction ofContinue Reading
The Advent of Antiseptic Surgery
Joseph Lister was a British surgeon who practised and lectured for many years in both Edinburgh and Glasgow but heContinue Reading
History of Midwifery
For many years the responsibility for delivering children lay in the hands of women. Female midwives would attend to womenContinue Reading
Alexander Monro & Trepanation
Alexander Monro (1733-1817) was a Scottish physician and following in the footsteps of his father became a lecturer at EdinburghContinue Reading
Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection
A year-long project has recently begun to catalogue the varied Manchester Medical Manuscripts Collection. Altogether there are well over 200Continue Reading