Both the Isch?® and Dental Libraries will be closed on Monday, January 21st in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr holiday.?á Both Libraries will be open regular hours on Sunday, January 20th (Dental 11:30-8 andIsch?® 1:30-10) and will reopen at 8 am on Tuesday, January 22nd.
The LSU School of Dentistry is currently screening for patients willing to participate in clinical board exams for graduating seniors.?á The dental screenings are free and IF CHOSEN to be a patient for the board exams there will be $50 in compensation. They are looking for people with good overall oral hygiene who may need a small cavity filled or just a general cleaning. In short, if you have a common type of dental needs, nothing fancy or overly involved, feel free to attend one of the screening sessions
For more information, please consult the flyer.
Dr. Cooper, a one-time anatomy Professor at the LSU Medical School, was also well-renowned for his poetry.?á Recognized for his ÔÇ£consistently good work in poetryÔÇØ by a forum of the National Writers Club in 1951 and awarded the position of Louisiana Poet Laureate from 1973-1976, Dr. Cooper is a?ácommon subject of our Newspaper Clippings Digital Collection. Though the Isch?® Library does not own any of his poetry collections, they are available through InterLibrary Loan.
Excerpted below?á is a poem from one of?áhis collections dedicated to a previous ÔÇ£Glimpse of the PastÔÇØ honoree, Dr. Frank N. Low. I would like to?áshare this poem with our new and returning students, who will surely feel the ÔÇ£grindÔÇØ immediately upon returning to classes:
For the new year, we have updated our Library BROCHURE?áwith current information about loan periods, borrowing privileges, Library and Reference hours, Reserve and electronic materials, Interlibrary loan, Library layout, and our available technology.
The brochure includes hyperlinks that will direct you to different areas of our website and will also connect to your Outlook, making it easier for you to contact us.
The LSUHSC Libraries support Dynamed, a point of care database that provides the best available evidence to support clinical decision-making.?á DynaMed is?áa comparable product to UpToDate and much more affordable.
While the?áLSUHSC New Orleans Libraries were never involved in the UpToDate subscription and had no access, we are hearing that it is no longer available from various hospital websites. We suggest you try DynaMed as the alternative.
Would you trust a medicine that’s been under water for a couple of millennia??áAn early edition article (and a link straight to the PDF) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences analyzes tablets found in a sealed container that was part of the material recovered from the a wreck in the Mediterranean sea off the coast of Tuscany in Italy. The abstract for the article states, “The composition and the form of the Pozzino tablets seem to indicate that they were used for ophthalmic purposes.”
The article is certainly generating a lot of press, from Wired to the Smithsonian to the BBC?áto the Washington Post.
Link to the pdf of the article is available to LSUHSC faculty, staff & students. It can be accessed off-campus with a valid LSUHSC library barcode & PIN. You can find more information at our remote access webpage.
Our colleagues at the Matas Library of the Health Sciences, Tulane Univerity uploaded 6 minutes of footage from 1937, filmed by Richard G. Holcombe when he was an intern, of the fifth Charity Hospital’s demolition. It was constructed in 1833 and was in use for over 100 years until the construction of “Big Charity.”
The footage was conserved in 2004 and does not include audio.
On display at the Library during January are eight new faculty publications by LSUHSC-NO researchers. These can be physically viewed in the Reference area (near the?áLibrary elevator), on the third?áfloor of the Resource Center Building. These items are also part of the LibraryÔÇÖs Faculty Publications Database.
The Faculty Publications Database includes publications authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-New?áOrleans faculty, 1998 ÔÇô present. Access to this database is available to the public. The database is linked from the Library web page?áhere. This page includes a handy link to a?áPDF?áof the monthly bibliography of display articles. To add your faculty publications, or for questions about this database, contact?áKathy Kerdolff.
LSUHSC-NO authors are shown in bold print:
1.?áGarbee DD, Paige JT, Bonanno LS, Rusnak VV, Barrier KM, Kozmenko LS, Yu Q, Cefalu JE, Nelson TK.?á”Effectiveness of teamwork and communication education using an interprofessional high- fidelity human patient simulation critical care code.” Journal of Nursing Education & Practice. 2013; 3(3): 1-12.
2.?áEllis Jr. GS, Pritchard CH, Baham L, Babiuch A.?á”Medial rectus surgery for convergence excess esotropia with an accommodative component: A comparison of augmented recession, slanted recession, and recession with posterior fixation.” American Orthoptic Journal. 2012; 62(1):50-60.
3.?áHe H, Mahnke AH, Doyle S, Fan N, Wang C-, Hall BJ, Tang Y-, Inglis FM, Chen C, Erickson JD.?á”Neurodevelopmental role for VGLUT2 in pyramidal neuron plasticity, dendritic refinement, and in spatial learning.” Journal of Neuroscience. 2012; 32(45):15886-15901.
4.?áIyengar AS, Loupe JM, Miller PJ, Hollenbach AD.?á”Identification of CK2 as the kinase that phosphorylates Pax3 at Ser209 in early myogenic differentiation.” Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communications. 2012; 428(1):24-30.
5.?áKelly BL, Singh G, Aiyar A.?á”Molecular and cellular characterization of an AT-hook protein from leishmania.” PLoS One. 2011; 6(6):e21412 (1-14).
6.?áPacifici M, Peruzzi F.?á”Isolation and culture of rat embryonic neural cells: A quick protocol.” Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2012; (63):e3965 (1-5).
7.?áRosenkrantz AB, Deng FM, Kim S, Lim RP, Hindman N, Mussi TC, Spieler B, Oaks J, Babb JS, Melamed J, Taneja SS. “Prostate cancer: Multiparametric MRI for index lesion localization–a multiple-reader study.”?áAJR – American Journal of Roentgenology. 2012; 199(4):830-837.
8.?áSingh S, Yosypiv IV, Iorember FM.?á”Disseminated mycobacterium avium complex infection in a pediatric renal transplant recipient.”?áClinical Pediatrics. 2012; 51(9):892-895.
Last week, MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health’s consumer health database, published the top 10 most?ávisited health topic searches?áof 2012:
Looking at these searches, it would seem that the public are?ásearching for information on?áthe most common health?áthreats in the?áUnited States.?á?áAccording to the Mayo Clinic, the top seven threats to women’s health are?áheart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, accidents, and type 2 diabetes. The top seven threats to men’s health are similar:?áheart disease, cancer, accidents, chronic lower respiratory diseases, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and suicide.
Of course the most visited sites could also mean that people who were diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes started exercising?ábut they had trouble breathing, had heart palpitations,?ágot sunburned, and hurt their backs!
When William C. Von Glahn retired from the Pathology Department in 1957, he donated his collection of historical portraits of famous scientists and doctors to the LSU School of Medicine. The Library received the collection in 1985 and has just recently begun a major project to conserve the images.
The first step in conservation is to unframe the images so that old acidic materials will not damage the portraits going forward. Much to our surprise we discovered 1930s era newspapers used to “stuff” the frames, including a 1935 issue of the New York Journal with a large headline announcing that Huey Long had died and part of a Daily Mirror from 1939 touting the 4th World Series win for the New York Yankees.
 New York Journal 1935 |
 Daily Mirror 1939 |
The Libraries have re-opened for service in 2013. Welcome to the new year!
The Isch?® and Dental Libraries are now closed for Winter Break, in accordance with the official University Holiday Schedule.
The Libraries will re-open on Wednesday, January 2nd at 8 am.
The bookdrop has temporarily been moved inside the Resource Center building on the 2nd floor between the bookstore and credit union. It will be moved back to its usual location after re-surfacing of the crosswalk is complete (on or about January 2nd).
Access to the Library Commons is possible with an LSUHSC ID during the campus closure; because of the crosswalk re-surfacing, enter the building via the 1st floor.
Do you ever drink water from the opposite side of the glass to cure hiccups or apply duct tape to a wart or spray Windex on a zit? These are just a few examples of therapeutic home remedies, but where do they originate? A collector of ÔÇ£weird-lookingÔÇØ medicinal gadgets and medical historian, Mr. William Dosite Postell, is the star of our highlighted article this month.
Former Librarian of the LSU Medical School, Mr. Postell was a Will of all trades: as he believed, ÔÇ£There is a little bit of the clinician, the research worker, the medical historian, the medical philosopher, the bibliophile, as well as the custodian and the library technician, in each successful librarian.ÔÇØ Though his career at LSUMS was principally one of librarianship, Postell was able to branch out from that role, becoming a scholar of wacky medical wares like cholera baths and mad dag stones.
One outdated cure is the ÔÇ£vapor bath,ÔÇØ invention of a Louisianan, Dr. Louis H. Lefebrve. Depicted in the drawing here, Postell found an early bath in the possession of the Prudhomme family of Natchitoches, Louisiana on one of his excursions to area antebellum plantations. The bath utilized sulphuric acid to assuage the effects of cholera. The story of the madstones or ÔÇ£bezoarsÔÇØ comes from the frontier. These stony hairball-like concretions were taken from the stomachs of deer, cows, or goats and placed on a bleeding wound to draw out poisons like those from the rabies virus or snake venom. In modern medicinal practice, the bezoar is considered a serious health risk in gastrointestinal tracts of humans and has lost its curative mythos (unless, of course, you live in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, where the bezoar cure is alive and well).
Postell was quite the adventurous and successful librarian no stranger to going above and beyond his position in pursuit of knowledge. Having served as President of the Medical Library Association (MLA) in 1952 and 1959, he was awarded the prestigious Marcia C. Noyes award for his outstanding contributions to medical librarianship. In a memorable article of the Bulletin of the MLA, Postell wrote, ÔÇ£The best publicity a library can secure is by way of service given. The circulation and reference desk is the best place at which good will can best be cultivated. It is here that the public is met and served. It is the here that new patrons obtain their first impression of the library. If they are met graciously and served competently, they will return.ÔÇØ
Stop by the Isch?® Library sometime and let us graciously and competently show you the wonderful resources at your fingertips! If you are interested in reading PostellÔÇÖs work, the LibraryÔÇÖs holdings include: Applied Medical Bibliography for Students, The Development of Medical Literature, and The Health of Slaves on Southern Plantations.
Glimpse of the Past is an ongoing project to promote the Louisiana Digital Library effort. This Month in History will present for your reading pleasure a closer look into a newspaper clipping of note from our Digital Collections and articles relating to the LSU Medical School.
The LSUHSC Libraries will be open regular hours (Isch?® or Dental) until Thursday, December 20th. The Winter Break hours are as follows:
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Both Libraries will re-open on Wednesday, January 2nd at 8 am.
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