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