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Archives & Rare Books Posts
Precursors to the famous Washington Manual are now accessible online in the Digital Commons@Becker.
Before it evolved into one of the bestselling medical texts ever published, the Washington Manual began as a series of notes and observations compiled by internal medicine residents rounding at Barnes Hospital in the early 1940s. These “treatment pro tips” were collected throughout the course of a year of clinical rounding, and then assembled into [Read more]
In Search of Anatomists Past: Phase 3 Elective Goes to Italy
This past April, the Center for the History of Medicine once again sponsored a trip to Europe for Phase 3 medical students as part of the Dissecting the Past elective. Head of Rare Books Elisabeth Brander, Professors of Anatomy Amy Bauernfeind and Krikor Dikranian, and 11 students with an interest in exploring the history of [Read more]
Slide(s) to the Left, Slide(s) to the Right
For the past few weeks, I’ve been working my way through the more than 800 slides found in the Institute for Biomedical Computing Records (RG035). The collection includes materials related to the Institute for Biomedical Computing (IBC) and its predecessors, the Biomedical Computer Laboratory (BCL) and the Computer Systems Laboratory (CSL). Established in 1964, BCL [Read more]