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
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Credit: A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HISTORICAL COLLECTION The Historical Collection comprises some 50,000 post-1850 secondary sour- ces on the history of medicine and related sciences. Much of the collection is on open access in the Reading Room of the Library and in the Peri- odicals Room. Some 500 current serials are received in a wide range of languages as well as offprints sent to the Library by authors. New ac- cessions average 100 monographs per month and cover such subjects as population studies, social history, biography, medical botany, anthropol- ogy, witchcraft and general bibliography as well as more central studies on the history of medicine and science. Shown here are examples of the various categories. Biography 1. John Chancellor. Charles Darwin. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1973. The Library buys widely in the field of biography - not only lives of individual physicians and surgeons, but lives of famous patients both individual and collec- tive - as well as general collected biography and university and school registers. The Library holds a complete run of the Medical Directory, directories of societies, and post office directories, all of which aid biographical research. Histories of medicine 2. Jean Starobinski. Geschichte der Medizin. Lausanne: Erik Nitsche. 1963. Histories of medicine, both general and national, and histories of systems of medicine such as Greek, Roman, Chinese, Indian, Egyptian, form a substantial part of the Historical Collection. Histories of specialties 3. Louis Dulieu. La pharmacie k Montpellier. Avignon: Presses Uni- verselles. 1973. Included in the Historical Collection are histories of various specialties such as pharmacy, nutrition, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, dermatology, venereal dis- eases, obstetrics, gynaecology, surgery and veterinary medicine. Histories of Institutions 4. Sint-Janshospitaal Brugge 1188/1976. [Exhibition catalogue.] Bruges: Commissie van Openbare Onderstand. 1976.
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