{"id":27,"date":"2020-07-14T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-05-19T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:35:31","slug":"hubbard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/hubbard\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. John Hubbard &amp; His Medical Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artmuseum.bowdoin.edu\/objects-1\/info\/9887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/artmuseum.bowdoin.edu\/objects-1\/info\/9887 noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-153\" src=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/hubbard-color-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/hubbard-color-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/hubbard-color-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/hubbard-color-768x987.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2021\/02\/hubbard-color.jpg 931w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of John Hubbard, ca. 1852, by Matthew Brady. Daguerreotype. Courtesy of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Gift of Joseph Hubbard Darlington, Class of 1928, and Sibyl Darlington Bernard to Bowdoin College; Transferred from Special Collections, to Museum Collection, 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bowdoin.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?query=title,exact,Dr.%20John%20Hubbard%20Medical%20Library%20(Bowdoin%20College%20Library),AND&amp;tab=AllLibrary&amp;search_scope=DN_and_CI&amp;sortby=rank&amp;vid=01CBB_BOWC:BOWDOIN&amp;facet=institution,include,8043&amp;mode=advanced&amp;offset=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bowdoin\u2019s Special Collections &amp; Archives recently received the medical library of Dr. John Hubbard<\/a> (1794-1869), a prominent physician, governor of Maine representing the Democratic Party from 1850 to 1853, and father to Thomas Hubbard, Bowdoin class of 1857 and namesake of Hubbard Hall.&nbsp; The collection is a gift of the Hubbard Free Library in Hallowell, Maine, where Hubbard practiced medicine for nearly 40 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Containing more than 260 volumes, Hubbard\u2019s library offers a window into the life and work of a 19<sup>th<\/sup> century physician operating a solo practice in a bustling town.&nbsp; The books in his collection range from the very practical\u2014anatomical and surgical manuals\u2014to philosophical ones about the classification of epidemical diseases.&nbsp; Some of the oldest (1793) and most recent (1866) imprints concern women\u2019s reproductive health, as do numerous others, pointing to the frequency with which Hubbard attended to obstetrical work. His library suggests he also made every effort to keep up with the most recent developments in his field.&nbsp; Hubbard subscribed to the <em>American Journal of Medical Sciences<\/em> and continued to acquire new publications throughout his life, including those on the burgeoning use of ether, magnetism, and electricity in medical care.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Upon his death, his medical office was sealed, and it remained a virtual time capsule for more than a century.&nbsp; His books were eventually transferred to the Hubbard Free Library in Hallowell, but never cataloged. In 2019, the trustees of the library voted to transfer them to Bowdoin College, partially in recognition of the Hubbard family\u2019s strong connections with the College but also as a means of recognizing Bowdoin\u2019s important role in Maine medicine.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/\">Return to exhibit home page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowdoin\u2019s Special Collections &amp; Archives recently received the medical library of Dr. John Hubbard (1794-1869), a prominent physician, governor of Maine representing the Democratic Party from 1850 to 1853, and father to Thomas Hubbard, Bowdoin class of 1857 and namesake of Hubbard Hall.&nbsp; The collection is a gift of the Hubbard Free Library in Hallowell, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-27","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sca.bowdoin.edu\/medical-school-of-maine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}