Posts by DIFDESIGN
Mentor Spotlight: James C. Rouman, MD., the Consummate Mentor in Medicine
By Richard Lilly, retired anesthesiologist James C. Rouman, MD, was my mentor from early in my internship at Hartford Hospital and throughout my career at Hartford Hospital and University of…
Read MoreLessons from the Past: Yellow Fever, the Civil War, and COVID-19
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are War, Famine, Death, and Pestilence. The last is defined as a contagious and infectious disease, both virulent and devastating: punishment for the wicked and unfaithful.
Read MoreNew Librarian for the Hartford Medical Society Library
On January 22, 2020, the Hartford Medical Society Library welcomed its newest librarian, Teri Shiel, MLS, MA.
Read MoreHMS Librarian Featured in History Podcast
HMS Librarian Jennifer Miglus is featured in the podcast, Grating the Nutmeg Episode 58: Keeping It Clean in World War I. In the 1910s, a group of Connecticut reformers formed a…
Read More‘Cleaning Up’ in the Early 20th Century
Take a look into the record of The Connecticut Society of Social Hygiene, a group formed in 1910 with the intent to combat venereal disease and promote healthy living through…
Read MorePoetry from the Civil War Hospital
The Knight U.S. Army General Hospital in New Haven was one of nine Civil War hospitals that wrote and published newspapers on-premises. Convalescent patients, soldiers, doctors, nurses, clerks, and chaplains…
Read MoreDiscovering Anesthesia
Can you imagine an operating room without anesthesia? Dive back into the middle of the 19th century when the field of anesthesia was just in its infancy. The HMS library…
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