Yale UniversityCushing/Whitney Medical Library

Primary Resources from the Medical Historical Library

on Women and African Americans

Toby Anita AppelJohn R. Bumstead Librarian

for Medical History

Medical Historical Library

Books by Women Doctors, Nurses, and Midwives —

Midwifery book by Justine Siegemund, 1723

Portrait Engravings – on our Digital Library

Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910Louise Boursier, ca. 1563-1636

Photograph Collection

Ethel Dunham, MD, Pediatrics Dorothy Horstmann, MD, Epidemiology

Yale School of Medicine Photos –

Students in1895 including two African Americans

Yale Medical Theses, 1842-1900

Thesis of C. v.R. Creed, first African American

medical graduate, 1857

Medical Books related to Women, Mostly Written by Male Physicians

Diseases of Women Nervous Disorders – Neurasthenia and

Hysteria Midwifery and Obstetrics Gynecology & Gynecological Surgery Pediatrics & Child Study

Medical Texts for Practitioners –

Spencer Wells, Diseases of the Ovaries, London: 1865

Popular Medicine & Health Books

Autobiographies and Illness Narratives by Women

Medical Journals,

17th century to 1920

Medical School Catalogs Nursing School Catalogs

Hospital Reports

Pamphlet Collections

Pamphlets from federal and state

public health agencies

American Society for the Control of Cancer

Pamphlets for women – 1920s

Handbills

Patent medicine almanacs --

nostrums directed at women

Patent Medicine Pamphlets – Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.

William Van Duyn Tobacco Advertisement Collection

Lam Qua Portraits of Patients of Peter Parker

Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints and

Drawings

Isaac Cruikshank, “A Man-Midwife,” 1793

“Morphinomanie,” by Eugène Grasset, 1897

Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints and

Drawings

Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints & Drawings

Ivo Saliger, Der Röntgenologe, 1921

Poster Collection

Poster Collection

Poster Collection

Poster Collection

Posters on Public Health

Part of a set published in Taiwan, 1950s

Manuscript Collections –

Herbert Thoms Collection:

Scrapbook on natural childbirth and rooming in