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As COVID-19 confines thousands to hospitals around the country, nurses are in high demand. The UMB School of Nursing has answered this call by offering qualifying May 2020 graduates an “early exit” opportunity. The early exit was announced April 27, 2020 and allows newly minted BSN and CNL nurses to join the workforce and help fight COVID-19 in local Baltimore hospitals. While it may not be the commencement celebration these nurses had in mind when they started their education, many are answering the call and jumping headfirst into the COVID-19 fight.
“Gentle Nurses” poem in the 1905 Bones, Molars, and Briefs Yearbook.
In the midst of this global pandemic falls National Nurses Week, May 6 to 12, 2020. During this monumental time the HS/HSL wishes to show our thanks to our UMB nurses past and present with a fitting poem from the 1905 Bones, Molars, and Briefs Yearbook. We know nurses on the front lines of this illness are all experiencing “endless, sleepless nights,” soothing your “fever racked” patients through “fitful dreams” and “throbbing brain”, and blissfully cheering on all those lucky enough to have “health and strength return.” For so many patients today, you are their sole cheerleader and adopted loved one, so for “as long as gratitude shall live,” we thank you.
The “Gentle Nurses” poem was featured in the 1905 Bones, Molars, and Briefs Yearbook. The Yearbook was curated by students of the Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Law, and Pharmacy. Some early yearbooks also featured the graduating classes of the University Hospital Nurses Training School, a predecessor of today’s School of Nursing; however, the 1905 Yearbook includes no mention or photograph of the students in this school, only the Gentle Nurses poem hints at the nurses training in the same hospital as medical students and faculty. Early yearbooks commonly featured the poetry, literature, satire, and art pieces of students at the University and provide excellent glimpses into the culture of the time period. Please view the content in the UMB yearbooks and shared in this Blog within this light.
UpToDate, licensed by the University of Maryland Medical Center, is now available for off-campus use. For optimal off-site access, users should register for an UpToDate account. To get started, access UpToDate from on campus or via this link (UMID and password required). Once on the UpToDate website, you can register for an account.
An UpToDate account will allow you to access the website and the app (available free for iOS or Android). Your account will also allow you to earn CME credits.
Once you create your account, you will need to access UpToDate at least once every 180 days from the hospital’s network or via the link from the library to maintain your access.
Screen capture of one of the Puzzles available in the HS/HSL virtual puzzle collection.
According to articles by NPR and the Washington Post, jigsaw puzzles are in high demand and almost impossible to find right now. Try to order a puzzle from Ravensberger, the world’s largest creator of jigsaw puzzles, right now and you’ll get the following message, “Due to unexpected demand, we are unable to fulfill orders at this time.” Retail stores cannot get them in stock or keep them stocked. The HS/HSL has good news and we can help with this shortage! We have selected images from our very own historical collections and turned them into virtual puzzles for free! There are puzzles for a variety of interest: botanicals, animals, sports, campus buildings, etc. Because these puzzles are online, you can choose the difficulty and the puzzle shape and even challenge friends and family anywhere to see who can complete the puzzle in the shortest time.
Screen capture of the Davidge Hall Puzzle in progress from the HS/HSL’s virtual puzzle collection.
Interested in learning about any of the images found in these puzzles? Contact the Historical Collections Librarian and Archivist for more information.
Link to the HSHSL Puzzles: https://www.jigsawplanet.com/winkta01/university-of-maryland-baltimore
The Health Sciences and Human Services Library Historical Collections’ strives to provide broad access to our diverse collections both in person and digitally. Materials in our collections appear as they originally were published or created and may contain offensive or inappropriate language or images and may be offensive to users. The University of Maryland, Baltimore does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. Materials should be viewed in the context in which they were created.
Rounding out National Poetry Month 2020, is a beautiful love poem by Dr. Bert E. Doyle, School of Dentistry Class of 1904. The poem, titled “Her Smile” was published in the 1903 Bones, Molars, and Briefs, the original name for the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s yearbook.
“Her Smile” by Dr. Bert E. Doyle, School of Dentistry Class of 1904. Poem from the 1903 Bones, Molars, and Briefs Yearbook.
Perhaps written with Doyle’s love interest in mind, “Her Smile” describes the life-altering effect and beauty of the smile of a girl named Pansy. In December of 1903, Doyle married his “Pansy”, a Baltimorean named Mary Eleanor Porter. A sketch of his wedding was also featured in the 1903 yearbook.
Sketch by Bert E. Doyle, School of Dentistry, Class of 1904. He married Mary Porter in December 1903. Sketch from Bones, Molars, and Briefs Yearbook, 1903.
Dr. Bert E. Doyle was born in 1877 in Vermont. He attended the University of Maryland Baltimore, serving as the Class of 1904’s treasurer. Dr. Doyle was remembered in the yearbook as follows: “Doyle, our popular married man, is beyond criticism; in fact, Doyle never gives his friends a chance to see him. The cause you may well know; he has just been married.” Following graduation from the Department of Dentistry (the predecessor of the School of Dentistry) in 1904, Dr. Doyle returned with the new Mrs. Doyle to Vermont to start up a dental practice. The couple had two daughters: Vera and Madeline. Dr. Doyle died in 1976.
Early yearbooks were a common place for students at the University to share their creativity. Yearbooks feature artwork, poetry, essays, music, and play scripts to name a few. The artwork and literature tended to have themes relating to the student’s coursework or current events; thus, yearbooks, as the poem and sketch in this post show, are an excellent window into student life at UMB.
Health care personnel the world over are facing the dangers of a critical shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPE includes items such as isolation gowns, eye protection, face masks, N95 respirators, ventilators, and more. In response to the global supply crisis, agencies like the CDC and FDA are recommending the use of improvised PPE to fill the gap until official supplies are more readily available.
People all around the world are leveraging a wide range of tools and materials to make improvised PPE. Academic health sciences libraries with makerspaces are particularly suited to contribute to this effort. Not only are such libraries likely to have 3D printers and other fabrication tools, they are also likely to have a connection to the front lines of local responses to public health crises.
The University of Maryland Health Sciences & Human Services Library (HSHSL) has been contributing 3D printed parts for various local PPE needs.
The HSHSL is not alone in this effort. Other academic health sciences libraries are involved in similar work, including but not limited to:
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health is hosting a free webinar for researchers to learn how to share, discover, and cite COVID-19 data and code in generalist repositories on Fiday, April 24 from 2:00-3:45 p.m. ET.
The biomedical research community’s understanding of the novel coronavirus and the associated coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is rapidly evolving. Open science and the timely sharing of research data have played a critical role in advancing our understanding of COVID-19 and accelerating the pace of discovery.
Researchers will have an opportunity to hear from multiple generalist repositories about the ways each repository is supporting discoverability and reusability of COVID-19 data and associated code. The NLM will also provide an overview of available COVID-19 literature.
The webinar will be available via NIH VideoCast.
Instructions on submitting questions will be made available closer to the webinar. Interested participants are encouraged to bookmark this page for the latest updates and follow #NIHdata on Twitter. The webinar will be recorded and available a week after the live event.
See the agenda on the ODSS website.
The Health Sciences and Human Services Library Historical Collections’ strives to provide broad access to our diverse collections both in person and digitally. Materials in our collections appear as they originally were published or created and may contain offensive or inappropriate language or images and may be offensive to users. The University of Maryland, Baltimore does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. Materials should be viewed in the context in which they were created.
Title Page: Health: A Poem by Edward Baynard.
Celebrate National Poetry Month with a selection from Historical Collections. Throughout history poetry and medicine are often intertwined and lists of poet-physicians abound. Physicians have used poetry to heal themselves and their patients, to process the unexpected nature of life and health, and to teach.
In Health, A Poem, Dr. Edward Baynard, a seventeenth century poet and physician, uses poetry to teach. He explains in an understandable—at least to someone in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—tone the manner in which to live a long, prosperous life. First published in 1719, the poem as well as the preface and the appendix poem, The Doctor’s Decade, was republished nine times between 1719 and 1764. Perhaps, what made the volume so popular was that it was written in verse and easy for readers to relate to and understand rather than highly technical. Publishing health advice in a poem allowed Dr. Baynard to reach a greater number of people than he would have otherwise.
Excerpt from the Preface of Health: A Poem.
In the preface of the poem, Dr. Baynard warns against the dangers of drinking and advises temperance. In the main poem general advice on maintaining a healthy lifestyle is given. Advice includes eating the proper food and in controlled amounts, sleeping regularly but not being lazy, avoiding alcohol and drinking plenty of water, and wearing the proper attire for the weather and climate. The final poem, describes what a doctor can do to cure his patients and how best to communicate with them.
Dr. Edward Baynard, was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1641. In 1671 he studied Medicine at the University of Leyden and became an Honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians of London in 1684 and a Fellow in 1687. In addition to his Health poem he wrote about the healing powers of the waters and spas in Bath. He wrote his poem under the pseudonym Darby Dawne. He died in 1719.
Celebrate National Poetry Month by reading Health: A Poem in the UMB Digital Archive.
References:
Lawlor, Clark and Ashleigh Blackwood. (2020). “Sleep and stress management in Enlightenment literature and poetry.” Interface Focus. Retrieved from: http://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2019.0089.
Stephen, Leslie. (1885-1990). Dictionary of National Biography. Macmillan, NY. Retrieved from: https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati03stepuoft/page/n465/mode/2up/
The Health Sciences and Human Services Library Historical Collections’ strives to provide broad access to our diverse collections both in person and digitally. Materials in our collections appear as they originally were published or created and may contain offensive or inappropriate language or images and may be offensive to users. The University of Maryland, Baltimore does not endorse the views expressed in these materials. Materials should be viewed in the context within they were created.
April is National Poetry Month, an appropriate time to dig into historical collections to celebrate the literary talents of past members of the UMB community. Despite UMB’s deep roots in medicine and other health related fields, Historical Collections materials reveal an appreciation for the arts among faculty, students, and staff alike. For example, Historical Collections houses a well-loved copy of The University Ode, a piece written for the Alumni Association.
The University Ode words by Dr. Eugene F. Cordell, Music by Dr. Theodore Hemberger. Latin texts, 1905, from Old Maryland, January 1905.
The piece started out as a poem in Latin written by Dr. Eugene F. Cordell, then Librarian and Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Eugene Fauntleroy Cordell was born in Charlestown, WV in June 1843. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine after his discharge, graduating in 1868. Following graduation he held various positions in Baltimore hospitals and held a private practice; co-founded the Women’s Medical College in Baltimore; co-edited the Maryland Medical Journal; and authored A Historical Sketch of the University of Maryland (1891), Medical Annals of Maryland (1903), and The University of Maryland, 1807-1907 (1907). He joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 1903 and wrote the Ode around 1905.
The music to The University Ode was composed by Dr. Theodore Hemberger. Dr. Hemberger was born in Bruchsal, Germany in 1871. His first piece was composed at the young age of ten. He studied music privately and conducted his first orchestra by age eighteen, after which he was sent to study law in Berlin. While in Berlin his musical talents were once again discovered and he was invited to study at the Hochschule fur Musik. In 1893 he met Emma Conrad, a singer from Scranton, PA. He fell in love and followed her to the United States, marrying her in 1894. In 1903 he moved to Baltimore to become director of the Germania Männerchor, which was founded in 1856. While director of the Männerchor he also composed and performed in H.L Mencken’s Saturday Night Club (1904-1950) and taught violin as a faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory of Music (1910-1915). Dr. Hemberger also served as director of the University of Maryland Musical Association from 1903 to 1907.
Musical Association Members from 1906 Terra Mariae Yearbook.
The University of Maryland Musical Association was founded in October 14, 1903 by Dr. John C. Hemmeter, Professor of Physiology and Clinical Medicine at the School of Medicine. Dr. Hemmeter believed the study of music and musical performance was an important outlet for physicians and medical students. He created the Musical Association to highlight the talents of the students at the University of Maryland; it was the first organization to include members from all schools at UMB. The organization held performances which earned money for the University’s endowment fund. Unfortunately, membership in the organization dwindled and by 1907 the club disbanded.
University Ode, translated by Dr. Eugene Lee Crutchfield, 1908. Old Maryland, August-September 1908.
The University Ode was adopted by the University’s Alumni Association as the official song of the school in 1907. The Ode was performed live in April 1906 by Dr. Hemberger and the Germania Männerchor, signaling the start of the Centennial Celebrations, which continued through 1907. During the Centennial Celebrations, Dr. Cordell was given an honorary degree of Master of Arts for his scholarly contributions; The Ode was mentioned as an important part of these contributions during the awards ceremony. It was featured in the 1907 Commencement exercises and in 1908 Dr. Eugene Lee Crutchfield, School of Medicine Class of 1887, translated the Ode from Latin to English. After the fanfare of the Centennial Celebrations, The University Ode seems to have been forgotten.
The copy in Historical Collections dates to 1905 and is part of Dr. Cordell’s papers available in the department. Beginning in October 1905 copies of The University Ode, like the one in Historical Collections, were available at Krantz’s Music Store at 7 West Fayette Street, Baltimore. Copies sold for 30 cents.
References:
Bones, molars, and briefs. (1904). University of Maryland, Baltimore. Retrieved from: http://hdl.handle.net/10713/2453.
Old Maryland. (1905-1906). University of Maryland Alumni Association, Baltimore. Retrieved from: http://hdl.handle.net/10713/472.
Old Maryland. (1907-1908). University of Maryland Alumni Association, Baltimore. Retrieved from: http://hdl.handle.net/10713/473.
Terra Mariae. (1906). University of Maryland, Baltimore. Retrieved from: http://hdl.handle.net/10713/2462.
Terra Mariae. (1905). University of Maryland, Baltimore. Retrieved from: http://hdl.handle.net/10713/2454.
Theodor and Emma Hemberger scores, PIMS.0080, Arthur Friedheim Library Special Collections, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved from: https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/4/resources/1289.