New residents in the History of Medicine Room

Three additions to the History of Medicine book collection have just come back from cataloging, and now reside on the shelves in the HOM Room:

Edridge-Green, F. W. The Theory of Vision. S.l: s.n.], 1909.
This reprint of a Lancet article outlines the disputed physiological theories of the English ophthalmologist Frederick W. Edridge-Green.


Lewis, Thomas. The Soldier's Heart and the Effort Syndrome. New York: Hoeber, 1918.
This book builds on the library's strong holdings of one of the most important figures in the history of modern cardiology.


Masson, Raoul. L'amaurose hystérique: Avec figure hors texte d'hémispasme facial et de ptose hystérique. Neuchâtel: Attinger Frères, 1911.
Another work on opthalmology, this time an M.D. thesis on hysteric amaurosis: temporary blindness following emotional shock.

Several titles for the History of Dentistry Collection have also just been cataloged and are available for research.

Portland Sanitarium in the archives of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church

Many months ago, I started working on some writing about the Portland Sanitarium, but abandoned it simply because I couldn't find suitable images in our collections to support the article. I decided to take another stab at it this week, with a little more success. In the process, I ran across the Website of the Office of Archives, Statistics and Research of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. Their online archives include a searchable image gallery, with six photographs of the Portland Sanitarium. Other digitized materials from their archives include publications, meeting minutes, reports, maps, theses and dissertations, and audio recordings.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the "health message" of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church has had a profound and lasting effect on American understanding of personal care, particularly diet and hygiene. The sanitarium movement, as modeled by John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium, played a large part in popularizing the church's message.