Preserving osteopathic antiquity through historical pamphlets and postcards
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2020.876Keywords:
Osteopathic, Osteopathy, History of Medicine, Postcards, Pamphlets, Historical Archives, Digitization, PreservationAbstract
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, osteopathic information was circulated by way of pamphlets and postcards. Several osteopathic historical pamphlets and postcards from the D’Angelo Library collection have been researched and digitized in order to preserve these osteopathic artifacts and highlight their historical significance for the current profession.References
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