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“Alas, Poor Daft Jamie’s Pickled!”: Poetry Concerning the Resurrectionists
By Carrie Levinson, Reference Services and Outreach Librarian You may have heard about “Resurrection Men” – people who robbed graves and even killed people to fill the unprecedented demand for cadavers...
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“How Many Stamens Has Your Flower?” The Botanical Education of Emily Dickinson
By Anne Garner, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts So unsuspected violets Within the fields lie low, Too late for striving fingers That passed, an hour ago. Emily Dickinson (1858)1 Daguerreotype of...
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Medical Rhymes
By Danielle Aloia, Special Projects Librarian Cree, WJ. In memoriam: Hugo Erichsen M.D. Detroit Medical News. 1944;36(12):9. In 1884, Dr. Hugo Erichsen (1860-1944) published Medical Rhymes, a...
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A Thousand Ways to Please
By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. Two of my favorite books in the library’s collection...
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Beyond “The Yellow Wallpaper”: Silas Weir Mitchell, Doctor and Poet
By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. Today, Silas Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) is best known...
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The Journey of Dr. Robert Bongout and his Lady, to Bath
By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. Anyone who has read a Jane Austen novel or seen an...
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Lessons from the Good Doctor
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. By Rebecca Pou, Archivist Cover of Der gute Doktor. Click to enlarge. This week, we’re celebrating...
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Limerick Anatomy
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. By Andrew Gordon, Systems Librarian The cover. Anthony Euwer, an American poet and painter, published The...
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A Hospital Stay in 28 Poems
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing poems from our collection throughout April. By Johanna Goldberg, Information Services Librarian On our shelves of poetry sits In Hospital, a small,...
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An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing a poem from our collection each week during April. Our last poem, An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, is by Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774). Our Rare...
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Syphilis, or the French Disease
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing a poem from our collection each week during April. Syphilis, sive morbus gallicus. Verona, 1530. Portrait of Fracastorius from Homocentrica. Venice,...
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The Craniad
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing a poem from our collection each week during April. In 1817, the work of two fathers of phrenology, Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Gaspar Spurzheim,...
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Mother Eve’s Pudding
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we are sharing a poem from our collection each week during April. With the support of the Pine Tree Foundation of New York, we are currently cataloging our...
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