A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1987
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987. Source: Wellcome Collection.
21/44 page 19
![MODERN MEDICINE COLLECTION The Modern Medicine Collection contains the Wellcome Library's hold- ings of printed medical and scientific texts published after 1850. Many different kinds of publication are represented: clinical manuals, research reports, statistical surveys, 'family doctor' books, pharmacopoeias, govern- ment documents, suppliers' catalogues, as well as the standard professional journals and a wide selection of pamphlets and offprints. The collection is still undergoing physical organisation and cataloguing in order to maximise its exploitation. It is being actively extended both by purchase and donation. The items shown in this case are selected to demonstrate the great variety of subjects covered. Pharmacology and medical botany 1. Robert Bentley [1825-93], and Henry Trimen [1843-96]. Medicinal plants? being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants em- ployed in medicine and an account of the characters, properties and uses of their parts and products of medicinal value. 4 vols. London: J. & A. Churchill. 1880. 2. The British pharmacopoeia, 1932. London: Constable for the General Medical Council, 1932. The library holds all editions of the British Pharmacopoeia from 1864 to the current edition. In addition, it has nearly complete runs of the British pharmaceutical codex and of Martindale's Extra pharmacopoeia, as well as a varied selection of foreign pharmacopoeias. 3. Sir William Osier [1849-1919]. The principles and practice of medicine: designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine. 8th ed. New York and London: D. Appleton. 1912 (1913 printing). The library holds 16 editions of this famous textbook, from 1892 to 1947. Cardiology 5. Sir Thomas Lewis [1881-1945]. Diseases of the heart, described for practitioners and students. London: Macmillan. 1933. Haematology 6. Dame Janet Maria Vaughan [b.1899]. The anaemias. London: Oxford University Press. 1934. - 19-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20456852_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
