NYAM Library & Center for Historyさんのイラストまとめ

Yellow jasmine, or gelsemium, from Millspaugh's American Medicinal Plants, 1887. Read about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's medicinal experiments with the plant here: https://t.co/mINkxiNdk1 #histmed

It's #PSLSeason! This here pumpkin is from Annie R. Gregory's Woman's Favorite Cook Book (1902) https://t.co/buwVqsMTDm

Dutch surgeon Pieter Adriaanszoon Verduyn (ca. 1625–1700) developed the first below-knee prosthetic that allowed for knee movement and one of the first “true flap amputations,” as described in his Dissertatio (1696) #histmed

Bourgery's French anatomical atlas offers a 19th-century answer to @RollingStones branding https://t.co/3qJuLOJ28T #histmed

Click over to the Library Shop for not-your-usual get well soon cards. https://t.co/nVBWSQxx6N #shophistory

Make like a cat on a toboggan, and have a happy weekend! https://t.co/JOSOgOshIR

Do you know your basilisks from your black #snakes? On #WorldSnakeDay, we're turning to Aldrovandi to school us.... (and to our #HarryPotter20 digital collection too) #histmed https://t.co/Xv14A3awiw

Winged podded sophora, native to New Zealand, from Curtis' Botanical Magazine, 1791.

Got flamingos? This blush bird from Gessner's 1885 posthumous volume makes us think of #summer and waves https://t.co/UeetwCqcyp #HeatWave2018

Graphic representations of disease and death as skeletons such as this one, from October of 1958, were commonplace in nineteenth-century issues of Harper's Weekly #histmed