Chemical and Philosophical Apparatus at the University of Maryland
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Medical Apparatus Post Brown May ...
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PDF of Chemical Apparatus 2021
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A history of the purchase and acquisition of early scientific apparatus for the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. The post highlights the enormous cost of chemical and philosophical apparatus in the 19th century and the great care schools of medicine had to take to maintain the equipment from breakage and theft.Description
Content written for the HS/HSL News, a blog for the Health Sciences and Human Services Library at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB).Blog post researched and written by Spring 2021 HSHSL Intern, Elizabeth Brown. Elizabeth is a student of the Master of Library and Information Science program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She recently completed an internship at the HSHSL working with the Historical Collections.
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Philosophical apparatusScientific equipment
Chemical apparatus
University of Maryland, Baltimore
University of Maryland, Baltimore. School of Medicine