Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine and Homeopathy – Drexel University College of Medicine
Address: Archives and Special Collections, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2900 West Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19129
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (215) 991 8340
Fax: +1 (215) 991 8172
Email: CoM_Archives@drexel.edu
Web site: http://archives.drexelmed.edu/
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Access library: Researchers by appointment only during regular hours, Monday through Friday from 9:30 to 4:30. Closed on University Holidays.
Access fees: None
Borrowing: No
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Profile: Special collection “Hahnemann University & Historic and Homeopathic Medicine”
The Hahnemann Collection reflects the history of the institution and its mission. The University, founded in 1848 as the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania and later known as Hahnemann Medical College, initially educated physicians in homeopathy before gaining national prominence as an academic medical center.
The materials date from the 16th Century to the present, with an emphasis on institutional records. The collection houses records of the College and Hospital from the earliest times, including the North American Academy at Allentown (1835) and related organizations such as the Hahnemann Alumni Association, Nurses’ Alumnae Association, Hahnemann Hospital Association, various affiliated institutes and hospitals and several early homeopathic societies.
Because of the formative role played by the school in teaching the system of homeopathic medicine, the early records in particular reflect the history of homeopathy in the United States.
The Hahnemann materials include:
- Records of the college and hospital from their founding
- Early medical student theses, class notes and yearbooks. A few theses are digitized.
- Papers and memorabilia of founder Constantine Hering [Finding Aid]
- Hering’s renowned collection on Paracelsus [1932 Catalog listing (pdf)]
- Works of homeopathic historian Thomas Bradford, including his 35-volume biographical scrapbooks on American homeopaths [Finding Aid]
- Medical instruments and early homeopathic medicine cases
- Papers of modern pioneers in heart surgery and cardiology such as Charles Bailey and William Likoff
- Historical reference collection on homeopathy
- Primary and secondary sources in the history of medicine including, for example, William Hunter’s Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus (1774), and Jenner’s Inquiry on… the Cow Pox (1800), and a 1632 edition of Vesalius’ Epitome.
- Irena Koprowska collection on American Cancer Society-Veterans Administration lung cancer screening study, (1958-1964)
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Last update info: 01/2020
Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum
Address: Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum, 432 W. Walnut St., Allentown, PA 18102
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (610) 435 1074 (ext. 13)
Email: j_youngken@lehighvalleyheritagemuseum.org
Web site: lehighvalleyheritagemuseum.org
Contact person: Jill Youngken, Director of Library/Archives
Financed by:
Target group: Researchers of local history, genealogy
Access library: Open to public Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Check website for Saturday Library schedule. Closed Sundays & Mondays and major holidays.
Access fees: Society members free, non-members 8 USD fee
Borrowing: No
Access database: Indirectly via librarian
Profile: Historical society with 7 historic sites plus research library of local history, genealogy, several special collections including homoeopathy.
First homoeopathic medical school was located in Allentown. Allentown State Hospital, earlier the State Homeopathic Hospital of Pennsylvania, gave most of our homoeopathic books, which we have for historic purposes.
Mainly historical volumes, period 1800 to the present. Most are in English, but a quantity are in German.
No. books: 10,000
No. hom. books: 35
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No. vol. hom. per.: 6
Database name: PastPerfect
Database content: Archives, book titles
Database records: Unavailable
Search options: Author, title, key words
Indexing system: Commercial (SEARS with modifications)
Last update info: 11/2022
National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health
Address: 8600 Rockville Pike, Building 38/38A, Bethesda, Maryland 20894
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: 1-888-FINDNLM (1-888-346-3656) / (+1)301-594-5983
Email: www.support.nlm.nih.gov
Website: www.nlm.nih.gov
Contact person: Inquiries to the email address above are routed to the appropriate staff
Financed by: NLM is an agency of the US government and is funded by federal appropriation
Target group: NLM is open to anybody wishing to use its collections onsite or remotely. Primary users include (but are not limited to) health science professionals, researchers, publishers, educators/trainers, librarians, historians, students and the general public.
Access library: For details of library access, see https://www.nlm.nih.gov/readingroom
Access fees: n/a
Borrowing: NLM is a research institution, and materials do not generally circulate to individuals. However, some materials are accessible through interlibrary loans. Contact your local library and see details at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/psd/cas/illhome.html
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Profile: NLM is the world’s largest biomedical library and maintains and makes available a vast print collection and produces electronic information resources on a wide range of topics that are searched each year by billions of people worldwide. It also supports and conducts research, development and training in biomedical informatics and information technology. In addition, the Library coordinates a 6,500-member National Network of Libraries of Medicine that promotes and provides access to health information in communities across the USA.
NLM also maintains a very large, diverse and comprehensive history of medicine collection. For details of its holdings and policies, see https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/
No. books: over 28 million; over 50 miles of shelves. Homeopathic materials are not segregated but can be identified within each database.
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Database name(s) and contents: NLM currently maintains over 260 electronic products and resources. See https://eresources.nlm.nih.gov/nlm_eresources/
While there is no database specifically devoted to homeopathy, homeopathic materials can be identified as appropriate to the database purpose. Good starting points to searching the NLM collection might be:
PubMed (www.pubmed.gov) comprising more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books;
MedlinePlus (https://medlineplus.gov), which presents high-quality, relevant health and wellness information that is trusted, easy to understand, and free of advertising, in both English and Spanish, anywhere, anytime, on any device, at no cost;
and LocatorPlus (https://www.locatorplus.gov), NLM’s online public access catalogue.
All of NLM’s e-resources have search engines whose capabilities are tailored to their contents and purposes. For example, even the simplest keyword search in LocatorPlus for “homeopathy” yields over 2,500 hits, including the archives of the (US) National Center for Homeopathy and the American Center for Homeopathy.
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Indexing system: NLM has maintained, for many years, its MesH (Medical Subject Headings) controlled vocabulary, which is the standard in the United States, and coordinates with other international vocabularies and thesauri. See http://nlm.nih.gov/mesh
Last update info: 04/2020
National University of Natural Medicine – Library
Address: 49 SW Porter Street, Portland, Oregon 97201
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (503) 552 1542
Fax: +1 (503) 552 1547
Email: library@nunm.edu
Web site: library.nunm.edu
Contact person: Noelle Stello (University Librarian)
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Target group: The library is open to anybody who wishes to use our resources on-site. Borrowing privileges are restricted to patrons from NUNM, OHSU, UWS, OCOM, Pacific University, Linfield College (Portland Campus).
Access library: The NUNM Library is located on the first floor of the Academic building.
Fall, winter, and spring terms
Monday through Friday 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Summer term
Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The library is typically closed on all major holidays. Please call the circulation desk at 503.552.1542 for more information.
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Access database: http://pahl-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?vid=NCNM
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No. books: over 17,000
No. hom. books: 2066
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Last update info: 10/2022
Neiswander Library of Homeopathy
Address: 1006 W 8th Ave., Suite B, King of Prussia, PA 19406
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: 1-800-456-478-18, ext 2251
Email: beth@hylands.com
Web site: currently under construction. In the meantime, use:
https://opac.libraryworld.com/opac/signin.php user name: Neiswander Library
Contact person: Beth Monaco
Financed by: The Hyland’s Foundation
Target group: Practitioners, students and users of homeopathy
Access library: The library is open most weekdays from 9am to 4pm. If assistance is needed, it’s best to call first to make an appointment.
Access fees: Donations to the Hyland’s Foundation gratefully received
Borrowing: No, books and materials may be studied on site.
Access database: Library World
Profile: Contemporary and 19th century books on homeopathy; also photographs, visual materials, realia, manuscripts.
No. books: approx 4,000
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Last update info: 01/2020
University of California.San Francisco – Library and Center for Knowledge Management
Address: 530 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (415) 476 8112
Email: https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/ask-an-archivist/
Web site: www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/homeopathy / https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/homeopathy
Contact person: Polina Ilieva, Head of Archives & Special Collections, polina.ilieva@ucsf.edu
Financed by: University of California
Target group: UCSF graduate students, faculty, staff; history of science research community. Open to anybody wishing to access the collections onsite or remotely.
Access library: Special collections by appointment only
Access fees: Fees may apply for special services
Borrowing: No borrowing of historical material
Access database: Through the internet
Profile: Contains significant homeopathic journals; library of James Ward, noted SF homeopath physician; archival collection California Homeopathic Institutions 1884-1984; 5th edition of Samuel Hahnemann’s Organon with additions in his own hand.
No. books:2,329,595
No. hom. books: 2,404
No. hom. reports: 900 homeopathic pamphlets (reprints, speeches, addresses), alphabetical author list; some are not catalogued
No. vol. hom. per.: 268
Database name:Alma/Primo (ExLibris)
Database content: Online catalogue of general collection and most of special collections. Links to internet resources, California Digital Library, HathiTrust, Google Books, Internet Archive
Database records: 78,094 (subjects = homeopathic/homeopathy)
Search options: Author, title, key words, Library of Congress subject heading, call number
Indexing system: LC subject headings
Last update info: 09/2022
University of Michigan Libraries: Taubman Health Sciences Library
Address: 1135 E. Catherine St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (Taubman Reference); 913 S. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library)
Country: U.S.A.
Phone: (734) 764-1210 (Taubman Reference); (734) 764-0400 (Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library)
Fax: (734) 647-9557 (Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library)
Email: schnitzer@umich.edu
Web site: www.lib.umich.edu/taubman-health-sciences-library
Contact person: Anna Ercoli Schnitzer
Financed by: State of Michigan and private donors through the years
Target group: All interested patrons
Access library: By online request form
Access fees: Free to on-campus affiliated patrons; Interlibrary Loan charges vary
Borrowing: Available through Interlibrary Loan
Access database: Catalogue: www.lib.umich.edu/library-catalogs
Profile: The homeopathy collection at the Taubman Medical Library of the University of Michigan originated in the holdings of the Homeopathic Medical College, first established as part of the University in Ann Arbor in 1875 and conducted concurrently with the allopathic Medical School until 1922. The collection itself contains homeopathic books and journals from the mid-1800s to present day, mostly in English but also some in German, Spanish, French, Italian and Russian. Of particular interest is the important Bradford Homeopathy Collection of 1,027 pamphlets detailing 75 years of the history and development of homeopathic medicine. Together with the holdings of the former Homeopathic Library, these pamphlets constitute one of the world’s most complete collections on the subject. See Homeopathy Collection Guide
No. books: Dispersed through collection (see Guide)
No. hom. books: Collection widely-dispersed throughout library (see explanation in Guide)
No. hom. reports: Collection of over 1,000 pamphlets, plus unknown number of other reports
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Database name: Homeopathy Collection
Database content: www.quod.lib.umich.edu/h/homeop/
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Search options: Online searching available; limited browsing depending on library or storage location of items
Indexing system: Dewey Decimal System
Last update info: 04/2020
