Primary Sources

Gale Primary Sources
Newspapers, books, manuscripts, maps, and photographs. Simultaneously search: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers, Sunday Times (London), Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Making of the Modern World, Times Literary Supplement, and Times Digital Archive, Financial Times (London).
ATLA (American Theological Library Association) Historical Monographs Collection, Series 1 & 2
Publications documenting the recovery of languages used during the biblical era, the conflict between religion and science, the growing interest in Eastern religions and other world religions, and significant shifts in the religious identification of Americans, among many other topics.
Coverage: 13th century to 1923.
Early Arabic Printed Books from the British Library
Early printed books in Arabic script. Covering religious literature, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature, and including European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European books.
EEBO - Early English Books Online
Digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in English from 1473-1700.

History of Medicine Collections, Eskind Library

Access

The History of Medicine Collections are located on the third floor of the newly renovated Eskind Biomedical Library, adjacent to Vanderbilt Hospital on the university campus. We’re open to the public 8:30am-5pm Monday through Friday, but please contact us ahead of time if you have specific research needs.

Collections

The History of Medicine Collections at EBL curates, preserves, and provides access to rare books, manuscripts, photographs, artifacts, and other materials covering the history of medicine since 1500. The collection's strengths include the history of nutrition, surgery, anatomy, and pediatrics, as well as the history of Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Choose any of the links below to browse archival collections, or search the Library Catalog to find our rare books.

EBL Manuscripts Collection
Registers, Bulletins, and Catalogs of Vanderbilt Medical School
Special Collections Biographical Files
University of Nashville Medical Student Dissertations (1851-1859)
VUMC Archives at Eskind Biomedical Library

Contact Us

Christopher Ryland | Curator of History of Medicine Collections and Archives
615-936-1406
Jim Thweatt | Archivist
615-936-1408

HathiTrust
Digitized collections of some of the nation’s great research libraries, established in this repository to archive and share their digital content.
Access Note: VU is a partner institution. Login is required for downloading. Tutorial: https://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/HathiTrustAccess