Working with 19th Century Medical and Health Periodicals Workshop featured in The Lancet

Medical Periodicals: Mining the Past, by Oxford based science writer Georgina Ferry, has been published in The Lancet (Volume 385, number 9987, 27 June 2015) and features a number of the papers presented at the workshop held on 30 May 2015. The article discusses how while medical periodicals contain a wealth of historical data, they also present various challenges to today’s researchers.

The article is available on The Lancet website