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DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
Broadsides, ballads, pamphlets, prints, and more concerning the body snatchers and murderers William Burke and William Hare, their accomplices, and their victims.
The William H. Helfand Collection of Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
Approximately 300 colorful pharmaceutical trade cards produced in the U.S. and France between 1875 and 1895 that were used to advertise a wide range of goods
New York Milk Committee Ephemera
Materials issued between 1910 and 1917 or 1918 by the New York Milk Committee and its Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality, dealing with their work in the Blue Front milk stations in New York City where they distributed milk and educated mothers
DIGITAL EXHIBITS
A Telling of Wonders: Teratology in Western Medicine through 1800
This exhibit examines the evolution of teratology (the study of perceived abnormalities in the natural world, both real and imagined), through the eyes of physicians and philosophers.
A collaboration with the National Library of Medicine, this Flash exhibit uses NLM's Turning the Pages concept to let you unroll the scroll of the world's oldest surgical document.

