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A Telling of Wonders: Teratology in Western Medicine through 1800
This exhibit examines the evolution of teratology (i.e. the study of perceived abnormalities in the natural world, both real and imagined) through...
Anatomy and Surgery
A collection of texts on anatomy and surgery, covering the anatomical atlas, anatomical proportions, illustrations of the arteries, surgical...
Apicius [De re culinaria Libri I-IX]
This manuscript contains 500 Greek and Roman recipes from the fourth and fifth century, both culinary and medical, reflecting the polyglot culture of...
Carte de Visite Collection

The collection consists of 223 late 19th and early 20th century photographs of national and international figures in medicine and public...

Drugs and Medicine
A collection of texts on drugs and medicine, covering patent medicines, Chinese medicine in the West, medicinal plants native to America, and early...
Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature
Nine titles (11 volumes) from the late 19th and early 20th centuries on medical botany were digitized and contributed to the Biodiversity Heritage...
Facendo Il Libro: The Making of Fasciculus Medicinae, an Early Printed Anatomy
The collection includes five editions of the Fasciculus Medicinae printed between the years of 1495 and 1522. The
From Basilisks to Bezoars: The Surprising History of Harry Potter’s Magical World
This collection celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the publication of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Medicine at Ground Level: State Medical Society Journals
The Academy contributed 716 state society medical journals to the Medical Heritage Library as part of the Medicine at Ground Level: State Medical...
Midwifery and Childbirth
A collection of texts on midwifery and childbirth, including the best-selling sex manual and guide to childbirth and the oldest manual for midwives...
NYAM Lectures Broadcast by WNYC

Forty lectures on medicine and society that NYAM produced and WNYC-FM broadcast in the 1950s. Digitized from the original lacquer disks....

New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection
The New York Milk Committee Ephemera Collection contains materials issued between 1910 and 1917 or 1918 by the New York Milk Committee and its...
Recipes and Remedies: Manuscript Cookbooks
The Library holds about 40 manuscript receipt books in its collections. Many of the manuscripts contain a combination of culinary recipes, home...
Robert Matz Hospital Postcards

The Robert Matz Hospital Postcards Collection consists of about 2000 postcards organized into three sub-collections: New York City (NYC),...

The Edwin Smith Papyrus
A collaboration with the National Library of Medicine (NLM), this Flash exhibit uses NLM's "Turning the Pages" concept to let you...
The Resurrectionists
A collection of broadsides, ballads, pamphlets, prints, and more concerning the body-snatchers and murderers William Burke and William Hare, their...
William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
The William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards contains approximately 300 colorful pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the U.S....
William S. Ladd Collection of Prints
The William S. Ladd Collection of Prints consists of 671 prints, primarily portraits, dating from the 17th century through the early 19th century. In...