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: medicine
Newly Catalogued: Papers of John Stopford, Anatomist
James Peters writes: We have recently completed a project to catalogue our remaining unlisted medical archives; this was generously supportedContinue Reading
‘Here Beginneth Cytology’: John Peter Smith and the Development of the Cervical Smear Test
Ginny Dawe-Woodings, Wellcome Archivist, writes: The recent acquisition of John Peter Smith’s papers on the foundation of the cervical cytologyContinue 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