ABOUT US
The Dittrick Medical History Center is dedicated to the study of the medical past through a distinguished collection of rare books, museum artifacts, archives, and images. The Center originated as part of the Cleveland Medical Library Association (est. 1894) and today functions as an interdisciplinary study center within the College of Arts and Sciences of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Read Full Story
The new exhibit
Virtue, Vice, and Contraband:
A History of Contraception in America
is now open. ...full story
Hidden treasures of the Dittrick
The Dittrick has many rich and varied collections of artifacts, rare books, archives, and images. Our website presents these collections in superb fashion, but many truly remarkable things may remain “buried” under multiple layers of the site. Yet others are to be found in affiliated websites that we host. Therefore, we offer here a listing of some of the real gems, or “hidden treasures” at the Dittrick. I hope that you enjoy discovering them as much as we enjoy caring for them!
Percy Skuy speaking about collecting historic contraceptives
Andrea Tone speaking on the “lost history” of contraceptives
Medical and scientific instrument collectors discussing their passion
The complete Phil Trans (1665+) – the first science journal
The Nicolaus Pol collection -- a Renaissance doctor’s library
Stecher Collection of Darwiniana – including Charles Darwin letters
Gebhard Collection -- images of health displays in Germany and America
Dissection portrait images -- American medical students, 1870-1950
Marshall Collection of Herbals – rare books on medicinal plants
Last smallpox epidemic in Cleveland – a doctor’s photo record, 1902-03
Newsletter of the Medical Collectors Association, 1984-2002
Military medicine of WWI: George Crile and the Lakeside Unit
Selected museum objects and their stories
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