Organization Type: Library Address: 333 Cedar Street, P.O. Box 208014 City: New Haven State Or Province: Connecticut Zip / Postal Code: 06520-8014 Country: United States Telephone Number: 203-785-1192 Fax Number: (203)785-5636 Abstract: The Historical Library of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library holds one of the largest medical historical collections in the world. It was founded in 1941 through the joint efforts of Harvey Cushing, John F. Fulton, and Arnold C. Klebs, whose rare books formed the core of the collection. In the 1940s, all medical books and journals from the main Yale library were transferred to the Medical Library. The collection has grown through donations and endowment funds. The Historical Library houses all medical library books before 1900 and all journals before 1921. It covers Western medicine, medical sciences, and healthcare broadly conceived. It includes the Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures, the Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints and Drawings, and manuscripts from the 13th to 20th century (but not the official archives of the Medical School). SERVICES: interlibrary loan (circulating items and PDs of short items), reference questions concerning our collections, and limited microfilming, photocopying, and photographic reproduction. All books have records in the online catalog. Medical Digital Library: <a href="http://library.medicine.yale.edu/digital" >http://library.medicine.yale.edu/digital</a>. Holdings: Collection includes 125,000 rare book and journal volumes: Classics (works of authors born before 1475): 3,000 titles; incunabula: 325 titles; 16th century: 3,000 titles; 17th century: 5,500 titles; 18th century: 9,500 titles; 19th century: 20,000 titles; periodicals before 1921. In addition, there are almanacs; medical school catalogs; hospital annual reports; Yale and Connecticut-related pamphlets and ephemera; pamphlets of medical organizations; prints, drawings, and posters: 3,000 items; portrait engravings: over 2,000 items (now online); photographs; medical instruments; and current books and periodicals in the history of medicine. Special collections within the Historical Library include works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Harvey, Boyle, and S. Weir Mitchell and subject collections including Ichthyology: 500 titles; Herbals: 300 titles; Inoculation/vaccination: 1,400 titles; and Anesthesia: 400 titles. Printed Catalogs: Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts (1943). Susan Wheeler, Five Hundred Years of Medicine in Art: An Illustrated Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the Clements C. Fry Collection in the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University (2001). Guide to the library on the web. Contact Name, Title: Melissa Grafe, John R. Bumstead Librarian for Medical History Contact Telephone Number: (203)785-4354 Contact Email Address: melissa.grafe@yale.edu Web Site: http://historical.medicine.yale.edu/ Collection Subject Strengths: History of Medicine Organization Type: Library Address: Sterling Memorial Library, P. O. Box 208240 City: New Haven State Or Province: Connecticut Zip / Postal Code: 06520-8240 Country: United States Telephone Number: 203-432-1735 Fax Number: (203) 432-7441 Abstract: The resources held by Manuscripts and Archives include the Yale University Archives and collections of personal and family papers and organizational records. Most have a strong link to Yale, either to the institution itself or to the faculty, students, alumni, and other members of the Yale community. Besides textual materials such as letters, diaries, minutes, reports, and financial records, collections include printed ephemera, photographs, maps, sound and video recordings, and increasingly electronic records. Manuscripts and Archives collects broadly in the areas of public policy and administration, including contemporary medical care and health policy; diplomacy and international affairs; political and social thought and commentary; science, medicine, and bioethics; legal and judicial history; the visual and performing arts; urban planning and architecture; environmental policy and affairs; and psychology and psychiatry. In addition, the department has extensive holdings on New Haven and collects publications of the University, student publications, and Ph.D. dissertations. A collection of over 4,200 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, is part of Manuscripts and Archives. SERVICES: The collections and resources of Manuscripts and Archives are open to the public. They are non-circulating, and only selected titles of the microfilm collection are available through interlibrary loan. The department provides reference and reprographic services. More information on these services is available on our website. Collections are described in the Yale University Library's on-line catalog, ORBIS, and in unpublished finding aids. A small fraction of the latter is available in an electronic format. Holdings: The department holds approximately 57,500 linear feet of manuscript collections and archival records and an estimated 35,000 volumes of printed resources. Contact Name, Title: Diane E. Kaplan, Head of Public Services Contact Telephone Number: (203) 432-1069 Contact Email Address: diane.kaplan@yale.edu Web Site: http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/ Collection Subject Strengths: History of Medicine Organization Type: Library Address: 80 Seymour Street P. O. Box 5037 City: Hartford State Or Province: Connecticut Zip / Postal Code: 06102-5037 Country: United States Telephone Number: 860-545-7276 Fax Number: (860) 545-2572 Abstract: The Hamilton Archives holds the records of the Hartford Hospital and the Institute of Living. Access to patient records is strictly prohibited. Access is by special arrangement with the Archivist who will request administration approval for access. Myth, Minds and Medicine: Two Centuries of Mental health Care, is a Permanent museum-quality exhibition that explains the dramatic changes that have occurred over the past 200 years in our perception and attempts at treatment for people afflicted with mental illness. It takes the viewer from a time when the mentally ill—thought to be possessed by evil spirits—were kept in chains and even cages, through the principles of “Moral Treatment” on which the IOL was founded, to more modern-day approaches that included such desperate measures as insulin shock therapy, a crude electroconvulsive therapy and lobotomy. The culmination of the exhibition is a look at present-day treatment and brain chemistry research that will lead to better forms of care in the future, aided by the display of a human brain. Myth, Minds and Medicine is the result of years of research conducted by historians hired through a grant The Institute of Living (IOL) received from the Connecticut Humanities Council. Documents, artifacts, items of interest, letters and old photos were gathered from the IOL’s attics, basements and closed-up offices to form the basis for the exhibition. The decision was made early on to tell the full story of medicine’s well-intentional but sometimes erroneous attempts at finding ways to alleviate suffering. The patients themselves tell part of the poignant story, as recorded voices recreate some of the letters found in the IOL’ Archives. An entirely reconstructed patient bedroom from the early 1900’s invites viewers to place themselves in the shoes of those who sought care at the IOL. Myths, Minds and Medicines is open to the public on weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. It is designed to be educational and appeal to students. A curriculum is being developed to aid teachers in helping to dispel some of the myths as well as the stigma still attached to mental illness. Call (860) 545-1010 for more details or visit our website at: <a href="https://instituteofliving.org/about-us/myths-minds-medicine" >https://instituteofliving.org/about-us/myths-minds-medicine</a>. Photocopy machine is available for 15 cents per page. Not all materials may be photocopied. (Not available at Myths, Minds and Medicine). Interlibrary loan is available. Holdings: A small collection of old books from the late 1800’s and early 1900s. One collection is of psychiatry materials at the Institute of Living Medical Library and one small nursing collection is at Hartford Hospital Health Science Libraries. Neither collection is cataloged. Access to either collection is by special arrangement with the Director of the Health Science Libraries. Contact Name, Title: Lori Hayes, Archival Associate Contact Telephone Number: 860-545-7276 or 972-2230 Contact Email Address: Lori.Hayes@hhchealth.org Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Nursing, History of Psychiatry [show all 4] Organization Type: Library Address: University of Connecticut Health Center P.O. Box 4003 263 Farmington Avenue City: Farmington State Or Province: Connecticut Zip / Postal Code: 06034-4003 Country: United States Telephone Number: 860-679-3200 Fax Number: (860) 679-2278 Abstract: The Hartford Medical Society has been in continuous existence since 1846. Society's library was a resource for continuing education for its members for more than 100 years. Strength are in 19th century American medicine. Collection is non-circulating and is still being added to the UConn Medical School online catalog. One, part-time librarian can provide ILL (digital copies only), reference, photocopying and scanning as time allows. Some of these services are fee-based. Some materials may be too fragile to photocopy/scan. Holdings: Collection consists of approximately 3000 volumes of monographs. Roughly 80% of these are 19th century. 10% are 20th century and 10% are 18th and earlier. No true incunabula, but a few 16th century volumes. The roughly 3000 volumes of bound journals are divided roughly 40% 19th century and 60% 20th century. Most are American publications. Archival collections consist of a small amount of correspondence, mostly of New England practitioners during the 18th and 19th centuries. Library holds an excellent collection of pamphlets with strengths in anesthesia and New England medicine. There are very few photographs, which are not cataloged. The collection also contains medical artifacts including surgical kits from the 19th century, cupping sets and the like. These too, alas, waiting to be cataloged. Contact Name, Title: Jennifer D. Miglus, Librarian Contact Telephone Number: (860) 679-3200 Contact Email Address: miglus@uchc.edu Web Site: http://library.uchc.edu/hms/index.html Collection Subject Strengths: History of Anesthesiology and Anesthesia, History of Dermatology, History of Homeopathy [show all 8]
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