The Antiquarian Medical Book Trade: a Survey and Directory of Dealers and a List of Internet Resources

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· Newsletter of the Archivists and Librarians in Volume XXVI, Number 1 the History of the Health Sciences Winter, 2002-2003

The Antiquarian Medical Book Trade: A Survey and Directory of Dealers and a List of Internet Resources

by Michael North

Over the past 15 years, three surveys of rare medical regularly purchase rare medical books for other dealers book dealers have appeared in the pages of The Wa who do not appear in these sources. termark, all accompanied by directories ofthese deal By reading through responses and talking to several ers. The last was compiled by Elizabeth Borst White dealers on the phone, I· gathered a fair amount of oftheHoustonAcademyofMedicinein Winter, 1994 information about the state of the rare medical book (Vol. XVIII, no. 1), just before the Internet began to market and how, in the opinion ofmany, it has changed make such a large impact on the rare book market. over the past seven years. The expectation is that this article and the accom In 1995, only a few book dealers listed an e-mail panying directory will assist curators of history of address, and websites were virtually unheard of. Today, medicine collections, private collectors, and other rare nearly all rare medical book dealers have at least an e book dealers in adding to their collections, having mail address, if not their own website where their books appraised, and generally getting to know who inventory can be searched. Many allow their is selling rare medical material today. An added fea inventories to be searched by larger search engines, ture of this article not appearing in others in the series such as those ofABE or ILAB. is a list of Internet book search engines. Many dealers have chosen to perform virtually all oftheir business over the Internet, finding it to be much A Survey of Dealers cheaper than issuing printed catalogs and keeping a shop open. From what I can tell, these are often dealers I sent questionnaires to 70 antiquarian book dealers who sell low- to mid-priced items and are most whose stock contained significant amounts ofmedical interested in higher volumes of sales and reaching the titles asking them for contact information and whether widest possible market. they issue catalogs or perform appraisals. I also asked Some in the rare book collecting and selling fields, if they had any insights into the rare medical book particularly in the low- and mid-ranges, commented market, including Internet vs. catalog sales, who is upon the changing relationship between collector and buying and who is not, and what is popular. dealer because ofthe Internet. Because so many dealers I found the names of dealers by going through the have stopped issuing regular catalogs and having open membership directories of the Antiquarian Book shops and buyers have increasingly found mid- and seller's Association (ABA), Antiquarian Bookseller's low-priced items on the Internet through impersonal Association of America (ABAA), the Antiquarian web searches, bonds which used to exist between Bookseller's Association of Canada (ABAC), the dealer and buyer are in many cases not developing. International League of Antiquarian Bookdealers Buyers often show little loyalty to dealers they meet (ILAB), and ALHHS. I also asked colleagues who through the Internet and don't get the same feel for a dealer's strengths and interests they did when regular

1 l catalogs were mailed out. It was often through such especially in the low- and mid-ranges, are now often bonds that. collectors gained their education about rare able to see what other dealers are asking for the same book connoisseurship. This would happen as collectors item very quickly and easily and often adjust their spent time in a local antiquarian bookshop or several prices accordingly, sometimes causing "reverse hours a month reading a dealer's catalog descriptions bidding wars." of hundreds of books available in a field. Many long-time, professional dealers commented Dealers in higher end antiquarian books have not that the Internet has brought into the marketplace a necessarily seen such dramatic changes. These dealers great number of "amateur" dealers. Such part-time often still issue catalogs regularly, many ofthem never dealers generally do not have to :follow the ethical having decreased the number of catalogs issued on a standards of the professional booksellers' yearly basis. According to several of these dealers, organizations; they merely set up an account with most buyers who are about to spend many thousands BookAvenue.com or offer something on eBay. They· of dollars on a book are interested in knowing more can often sell their books very cheaply because they about the book's condition and history and more about do no~ live off the proceeds of their bookselling, the dealer. One dealer in particular said that while his bringing some prices down; Some expert dealers who stock is advertised on the Internet, he has never sold a describe their stock in great de.tail online have book solely by e-mail and faxes-he has always complained that le.s~ experienced,dealers have. been spoken to his customers on the telephone at least once "lifting" their descriptions and attaching them to their during the transaction. own online entries; This cmlid probably happen in the As far as pricing is concerned, some shifting has printed catalog world as well, but many seasoned book taken place because ofthe futernet. Many books, which dealers have cpmmented on such.practices .as if they were thought to be extremely scarce, existing in only were new or, at the very least, far more rampant. . one or two copies, were found to have several copies I asked a number of dealers if they felt that prices on the market when hundreds of book dealers' had changed. because of the slowing economy, inventories became instantly searchable. Such books especially the slumping stock markets. Nearly all went down in asking price. But still other books, once dealers agreed that most prices haye not gone down thought to have been common, were suddenly found over the past few years. If prices had stopped rising, to be rare, bringing up their prices. Book dealers, they remained unchanged. The high points in medical

TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Antiquarian Medical Book Trade: A Survey and Directory of Dealers and a List o~

Internet Resources 1

From the President 14

ALHHS Annual Meeting 15 Membership Dues 15

ALHHS Bylaws Changes 16

Nominations for Holloway Award and Recognition of Merit Award 16

A Mysterious Web Tale 18

Ex Libris 19

News from HMD 24

2 i collecting, such as works by Vesalius and William literature on modem technologies, such as computers Harvey, are still going up in value, sometimes ap.d imaging, are gaining collectors. In general, astronomically. This is perceived to be in part because interests in the rare book market appear to be moving collectors with large sums of money at their disposal towards literature, especially areas such as modem first are often focusing only on the most well known editions. classics in medicine and science without going in depth into specialized areas. A Directory of Online Search Engines for There were a number ofother interesting comments Antiquarian Books in the area of who is buying what. Many noted that there are fewer physicians collecting rare medical The Internet has made searching for a specific rare or books. A number of factors _have been suggested for out-of-print book extremely quick and easy over the this, including lower physician incomes and less past seven years. The number of search engines has leisure time. grown, and many ofthe most well known have been Most of the comments on this trend seem to be bought out by competitors and shut down. Many rare highly speculative, however. While physician incomes book dealers have chosen to list their stock in these have gone down a bit in some specialties, the expense databases rather than create their own websites with of collecting rare medical books as opposed to other search engines, and some have stopped printing collectibles such as antique cars or art, has actually. catalogs all together~ , remained rather affordable, with the exception ofthe These search engines are often money-making highest priced items. One dealer commented that even ventures for their owners, charging a commission from during Harvey Cushing's time there was lament that book dealers for each sale. This often causes the price not enough physicians were interested in the ofthe book to be autOJ;naticallyincreased by the system hlll1ianities. All of these ideas seem worthy of further without the customer· being aware ofit, and sometimes pursuit by those watching the rare medical book trade. finding the same book from the same dealer via a I myself have wondered if the trend is due to a different search engine can result in a slightly different decreasing interest in the printed page as opposed to price. Another result ofthis phenomenon is that some electronic media over the past ten years. sites allow users to contact dealers directly in order to Many dealers commented upon trends in ask questions about a book's condition, whereas others institutional buying. While individual collectors are do not even give the name of the dealer, or insist that often focusing their collecting efforts on narrow fields you send messages through their system. Some users of medicine, institutions with history of medicine believe this causes delays and confusion and can be a collections are often looking to broaden their collecting bit alienating. interests. Books in areas such as cookery, chemistry, As with the directory of dealers below, it is not my cosmetics, wine, anthropology, and voyages are intention to recommend one search engine over recognized as having perspectives on health and another, although some attempt to describe the medicine that many private collectors overlook. holdings or special features of each has been made. Scholars at such institutions are urging curators to Many of the sites have a significant overlap of book delve into these tangential areas deeper and deeper. dealers' inventories, as many dealers have added their Many have noted that most institutions do not seem holdings to numerous databases. This list is only a to be spending as much as they were in the 1960s and portion of Internet book search engines; new ones are 1970s, as they have been forced to shift spending into appearing every month and not every site could be electronic resources. mentioned here. Because there is less buying by physicians and by institutions in the area of medicine proper, some Advanced Book Exchange (ABE): http:// dealers say that there has been a decrease in dealers www.abebook.com. Said by many to have the largest who specialize only in medicine. Some point out that group ofmultinational independent booksellers on the web. Includes a special section for maps and prints.

3 Alibris: http://www.alibris.com. Alibris has become Mare Magnum Librorum: http:// one of the best known search engines; some have www.maremagnum.com. Based in Milan, the site has claimed that the higher overhead due to mainstream searching capabilities in five languages. advertising has led to higher commissions charged to dealers. TomFolio.com: http://www.tomfolio.com. A growing search engine, named after the bibliophile and Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America bibliomaniac Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725). (ABAA): http://abaa.org. Contains the stock ofmany ofABAA's members. Used Book Central: http;//www.usedbookcentraLcom. Small but growing Antiqbook (NAN): http://www.antiqbook.com. Based quickly, mainly American bookdealers. Claims that in the Netherlands, with many of the same dealers as there are no commissions charged. ABE, but includes some European dealers found in few other places. WorldBookDealers.com: http://www.worldbookdealers.com. Small but grow Bibliology: http://www.bibliology.com. "The on-line ing quickly, mainly American and British dealers. bookfair," includes information on bibliophilic events as well as a search engine. A Directory of Antiquarian Medical Book Dealers Biblion: http://www.biblion.com. "The U.K.'s larg in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. est site for rare, antiquarian and out of print books," although it contains the inventories of numerous in The directory of antiquarian medical book ternational dealers as well. dealers below is intended as a reference tool for archi vists, librarians, collectors, scholars, and other rare Bibliophile.net: http://www.bibliophile.net. Based in book dealers. Each entry contains the most complete Switzerland, this site is small but growing quickly; and up-to-date contact information available for each includes searching capabilities in five languages. dealer who responded to the survey. It includes the name of the proprietor or medical book specialist (la Bibliopoly: http://www.bibliopoly.com. Boasts a beled "P.:"), the dealers' specialties, and whether they search engine in five languages. produce catalogs and/or perform appraisals. Bookavenue.com: http://www.bookavenue.com. Less It is not the intention ofthe author, The Water international than ABE or Antiqbook; includes numer mark, or the ALiffiS to endorse any of these dealers ous small dealers found nowhere else in particular. Nearly all of these dealers are members of the following booksellers' associations, which re Bookfinder.com: http://www.bookfinder.com. An quire their members to uphold certain ethical stan umbrella search engine that simultaneously searches dards, viewable at the associations' websites: The a number of the other search engines on this list. Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA, http:// www.aba.org.uk), The Antiquarian Booksellers' As Galaxidion: http://www.galaxidion.com. Based in sociation of America (ABAA, http://abaa.org), The France, representing mainly with Francophone deal International League of Antiquarian Booksellers ers in Europe. (ILAB, http://www.ilab-lila.com), and The Antiquar ian Booksellers' Association of Canada (ABAC, http:/ International League of Antiquarian Booksellers /www.abac.org). A dealer's membership in each group (ILAB): http://www.ilab-lila.com. This international is listed at the end of each entry. organization, which sets ethical standards for rare book dealers around the world, also includes a search en gine of many of its members' holdings.

4 The United States The Book & Tackle Shop Winter: 29 Old Colony Road The Antiquarian Scientist Chestnut Hill, MA 02167 P.O.Box448 Tel.: (617) 965-0459 Southampton, MA 01073 P.: Raymond V Giordano Summer: 7 Bay Street Tel.: (413) 529-2731 Watch Hill, RI 02891 ·Fax: (413) 529-0907 Tel: (401) 596-0700 [email protected] P.: Bernard L. Gordon Science, medicine, technology, scientific instruments [email protected] Catalogs issued; appraisals performed http://www.bookandtackle.com/ By appointment only Science, medicine, sport, nature, travel, art, cookery, biology, fish, and numerous other fields. By appointment only Antiquariat Botanicum ABAA,ll.,AB 4606 Brandon Lane Beltsville, MD 20705 :p.: Eugene L. Vigil By the Book, L.C. Tel. & Fax: (301) 937-2561 1045 East Camelback Road [email protected] Phoenix, AZ 85014 http://www.abebooks.com/home/319341911 P.: James Craig Manwarren, Samuel J. Hessel Botany, gardening, horticulture, color plate books, Tel.: (602) 222-8806 science, medicine, travel, voyages, exploration Fax: ( 480) 596-1672 By appointment [email protected] ABAA,ll.,AB http://www.antiqbook.com/bythebooklc/ Numerous fields, including medicine, science, and illustrated books Argosy Book Store, fuc. Catalogs issued; appraisals performed 116 East 59th Street 10:00 to 6:00, Monday through Friday; New York, NY 10022 10:00 to 5:00, Saturday P.: Judith Lowry, Adina Cohen, Naomi Hample ABAA,ll.,AB Tel.: (212) 753-4455 Fax: (212) 593-4784 [email protected] Webb Dordick http://www.argosybooks.com/ 15 Ash Avenue Numerous fields, including medicine, maps and prints Somerville, MA 02145 10:00 to 6:00, Monday through Friday P.: Webb Dordick ABAA,ll.,AB Tel.: (617) 776-1365 Fax: (617) 629-0621 Medicine, history ofmedicine Catalogs issued; appraisals performed By appointment only ABAA,ll.,AB

5 ElgenBooks TheGemmary 336 DeMott Avenue P.O. Box 2560 Rockville Centre, NY 11570 Fallbrook, CA 92088 P.: Esther Geller P.: Faye Blankenhorn, Rick Blankenhorn Tel.: (516) 536-6276 Tel.: (760) 728-3321 Fax: (516) 536-0848 Fax: (760) 728-3322 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.abebooks.com/home/ELGENBKS/ http://www.gemmary.com/ Medicine, science, mathematics Scientific and medical instruments and books, esp. Catalogs issued books on scientific and medical instruments By appointment only Catalogs issued on CD-ROM twice yearly ABA,ILAB By appointment only

W.BruceFye Bennett Gilbert 1533 Seasons Lane, SW P.O. Box 46056 Rochester, MN 55902 Los Angeles, CA 90046 P.: W. Bruce Fye, M.D: P.: Bennett Gilbert, Mitchell Pendleton Tel. {507) 285-5893 Tel.: (323) 876-8677 Fax (507) 285-1601 Fax.: (323) 876-8934 [email protected] . [email protected] http://www.fyebooks.com http://www.gilbooks.com Antiquarian medical books Early printed books to 1800 in philosophy, theology Catalogs issued & science, Renaissance & Reformation, the history of By appointment only ideas, incunabula & illustrated books Catalogs issued By appointment only John Gach Books, Inc. ABAA,ILAB 10514 Marriottsville Rd (rear building) Randallstown, MD 21133 P.: John Gach Edwin V. Glaser Rare Books Tel.: (410) 465-9023; (800) 465-9023 P.O. Box 755 Fax: (410) 465-0649 Napa, CA 94559 [email protected] P.: Edwin V. Glaser http://www.gach.com Tel. (707) 258-6281 Psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, Fax (707) 258-8625 neuroscience [email protected] By appointment only http://www.glaserrarebooks.com ABAA,ILAB Science, medicine, and technology Catalogs issued; appraisals performed By appointment only ABAA,ILAB

6 James Tait Goodrich H.P. Kraus Antiquarian Books and Manuscripts 16 East 46th Street 125 Tweed Boulevard New York, NY 10017 Grandview-on-Hudson, NY 10960 P.: Mary Folter P.: James Tait Goodrich Tel.: (212) 687-4808 Tel.: (845) 359-0242 Fax: (212) 983-4790 Fax: (845) 359-0147 [email protected] jtg@j arnestgoodrich.corn http://www.hpkraus.com/ Medicine, science; antiquarian medical and scientific Illuminated & text manuscripts, incunabula, instruments early science, early Americana, early printed books, Catalogs issued bibliography, medicine By appointment only Catalogs issued 9:30 to 5, Monday through Friday; appointment rec ommended Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. ABAA,ILAB 325, West End Avenue New York, NY 10023-8145 P.: Jonathan A. Hill M & S Rare Books Tel. (212)496-7856, (917) 294-2678 Fax (212) 496- P.O. Box 2594, East Side Station 9182 Providence,R1.02906 [email protected] P.: Daniel G Siegel http://bookrnarque.net/j .hill Tel.: (401) 4211050 Science, medicine, natural history, bibliography, fine Fax: (401) 272-0831 printing, early printed books, wine books [email protected] Catalogs issued; appraisals performed http://www.rnsrarebooks.com/ By appointment only History, reform, literature, science, and medicine ABAA,ILAB Catalogs issued; appraisals performed By appointment only ABAA,ILAB Ben Kinrnont, Bookseller 83 Murray Street New York, NY 10007 Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc. P.: Ben Kinrnont P.O. Box 20413, West Side Station Tel.: (212) 964-7132 Worcester, MA 01602 Fax: (212) 964-9367 P.: Jeffrey D. Mancevice [email protected] Tel. (508) 755-7421 http://www.kinrnont.corn Fax (508) 753-2317 Gastronomy, food, wine, domestic economy, perfume, [email protected] early printing, agriculture, farming, bibliography http://www.abebooks.com/horne/INCIPIT I Catalogs issued; appraisals performed Incunabula, early printed books, mathematics, early By appointment only science, medicine, emblem books, Renaissance ABAA,ILAB Catalogs issued; appraisals performed By appointment only ABAA,ILAB

7 l Martayan Lan The 19th Century Shop 48 East 57th Street 1047 Hollins Street New York, NY 10022 Baltimore, MD 21223 P.: Seyla Martayan, Richard Lan, Seth Fagan P.: Tom Edsall Tel.: (212) 308-0018 Tel.: (410) 727-2665 Fax: (212) 308-0074 Fax: (410) 727 2681 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.martayanlan.com/ http://www.19thcenturyshop.com Science, travel and discovery, and art and architecture Science, literature, Americana, history, economics and 9:30-5:30, Monday through Friday, and by appoint philosophy ment Catalogs issued ABAA,ILAB By appointment only

Bruce McKittrick Rare Books Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. 43 Sabine Avenue P.O. Box 867 Narberth, PA 19072-1741 Novato, CA 94948-0867 P.: Bruce McKittrick P.: Jeremy M. Norman Tel.: (610) 660-0132 Tel. 415-892-3181 E_ax. 208.,692-8553 Fax: (610) 660-0133 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.historyofscience.com http://www.worldbookdealers.com/dealers/ Science, medicine and technology brucemckittrick/index.asp By appointmentonly Literature, history, medicine, Greek and Latin clas Catalogs issued;· appraisals performed sics, science, bibliography and children sbooks ABAA,ILAB Catalogs issued; appraisals performed By appointment only ABAA,ILAB Old South Books 4639 Peppertree Lane Memphis, TN 38117 Howard S. Mott, Inc. P.: D. J. Canale, M.D. P.O. Box309 TeL (901) 767-1514· 170 South Main Street Fax (901) 682-8315 Sheffield, MA 01257 dj [email protected] P.: Donald Mott http://www.oldsouthbooks.com/ Tel.: (413) 229-2019 Medical books and related books, including works by Fax: (413) 229-8553 physician writers [email protected] Catalogs issued; appraisals performed First editions, Americana, literature, unusual imprints, By appointment only Caribbean Catalogs issued; appraisals performed By appointment only ABA, ABAA, ILAB

8 Palinurus Antiquarian Books B. & L. Rootenberg Box 2237 P.O. Box 5049 Jenkintown, PA 19046 Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 P.: John Hellebrand P.: Barbara Rootenberg, Howard M. Rootenberg Tel. (215) 884-2297 Tel. (818) 788-7765 Fax (215) 884-2531 Fax (818) 788-8839 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.palinurusbooks.com http://www.rootenbergbooks.com Science, medicine, engineering, technology The sciences, medicine, natural history, technology Catalogs issued; appraisals performed and related areas By appointment only Catalogs issued; appraisals performed ABAA,ILAB By appointment on1y ABA, ABAA, ILAB

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts P.O. Box 504, 2205 Nut Tree Lane E. K. Schreiber McMinnville, OR 97128 285 Central Park West P.: Phillip J. Pirages New York, NY 10024 Tel.: (503) 472-0416, (800) 962-6666 P.: Fred Schreiber, Ellen Schreiber Fax: (503) 472-5029 Tel.: (212) 873-3180 . [email protected] Fax: (212) 873-3190 http://www.pirages.com [email protected] Early printing, bindings, fine illustrated books, English and American literature, illuminated http:/I ekslibris.com manuscripts, press books, rare books Early printed books, incunabula, Humanism andRe Catalogs issued; appraisals performed naissance, early illustrated books, Continental books By appointment only Catalogs issued; appraisals performed ABAA;ILAB By appointment on1y ABAA,ILAB

Bruce J. Ramer Scientia Books Experimenta Old & Rare Books Mail: P.O. Box 433 401 East 80th Street, Suite 24-J Shop: 432AMassachusetts Ave. New York, NY 10021 Arlington, MA 02476 P.: Bruce J. Ramer P.: Malcolm Jay Kottler Tel.: (212) 772-6211; (212) 772-6212 Tel.: (781) 643-5725, (781) 646-7336 Fax: (212) 650-9032 Fax: (781) 643-0163 [email protected] [email protected] Medicine, occult, science and technology, natural http://www.abebooks.com/home/SCIENTIABOOKS/ history, early printing Medicine, science, evolution By appointment on1y Catalogs issued; appraisals performed ABAA,ILAB By appointment only ABAA,ILAB

9 l Tesseract JeffWeber Rare. Books Box 151 P.O. Box 3368 Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 Glendale, CA 91221-0368 P: David Coffeen, Yo1a Coffeen or TeL: (914) 478-2594 2731 Lompoc Street Fax: (914) 478-5473 Los Angeles, CA 90065 [email protected] P.: Laurence J. Weber http://www.etesseract.com/ Tel.: (323) 344-9332 Early scientific instruments, books Fax: (323) 344-9267 Catalogs issued [email protected] By appointment only http:// www.bookmarque.netabaalinks.cfm?Dealer=weber Bibliography, California, fore-edge painting, medi Trotting Hill Park Book.s cine, natural history, science and technology Mail: P.O. Box 60866 Catalogues issued; appraisalS performed Longmeadow, MA 01116 By appointment only Shop: Whately Antiquarian Book Center ABAA,ILAB 13 State Rd.(Rte. 5) Whately, MA 01066 P.: Rocco and Barbara Verrilli Wentworth & Leggett Rare Books Tel.: (413) 567-6466 905 West Main Street, Brightleaf Square [email protected] Durham, NC 27701 http://www.abebooks.com/home/24237326/ P.: Barbara L. Wt?fitworth, David Wentworth Science, natural history, occult, Americana, medicine Tel.: (919) 688-5311; (919) 479-1938 10:00 to 5:30, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday to Satur http: I I a baa. or g I find books e 11 e r I day; 12:00 to 5:00, Sunday; closed Wednesdays bookseller.cgi?firmid=458 Medicine, science, bindings, illustrated books, Southern Americana An Uncommon Vision 11 to 6, Monday through Saturday 1425 Greywall Lane Wynnewood, PA 19096 Tel.: (610) 658-0953 United Kingdom Fax: (610) 658-0961 [email protected] Simon Finch Rare Books Ltd. http://www.abebooks.com/home/uncommonvision 53 Maddox Street Women s history, lesbian & gay, medicine & nursing, London WlR OPN esp. ephemera UNITED KINGDOM By appointment only Tel. (44 207) 499-0974 Fax (44 207) 499-0799 [email protected] http://www.simonfinch.com Catalogs issued Early printing, medicine, science, first editions, etc. By appointment only

10 Roger Gaskell RuthKidson 17 Ramsey Road 31 Western Road Warboys, Cambridgeshire PE28 2RW Lewes, East Sussex BN7 lRL UNITED KINGDOM UNITED KINGDOM P.: Roger Gaskell P.: Ruth Kidson Tel.: (44 0 1487) 82 30 59 Tel.: (44 0 1273) 487 087 Fax: (44 0 1487) 82 30 70 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.ruthkidson.co.uk http://www.RogerGaskell.com Medicine, literature Early books on science, medicine and technology ABA,ILAB Catalogs issued; appraisals performed By appointment only ABA,ILAB Maggs Brothers Rare Books, Ltd. 50 Berkeley Square London WlJ 5BA Rebecca Hardie Rare Books UNITED KINGDOM 28 Pavilion Terrace Natural History and Medicine .Specialist: John Collins Wood Lane Tel.: (44 0 20)7493 7160 London W12 OHT Fax: (44 0 20) 7499 2007 United Kingdom [email protected] P.: Rebecca Hardie http://www.m&ggs.com/ Tel. & Fax: (44 0 20) 8749 3675 Catalogs issued; appraisals performed [email protected] Numerous fields, including science, medicine, and Medicine, especially women s andfamily medicine natural history Catalogs issued 9:30 to 5, Monday through Friday ABA,ILAB

Andrew Hunter, Rare Books Box9 Nigel Phillips Rare Books 34 Buckingham Palace Road 5 Burleigh Place, Putney London SWlW ORH London SW15 6ES UNITED KINGDOM UNITED KINGDOM P.: Andrew Hunter Tel.: (44 0 20) 8788-2664 Tel. & Fax: (44 0 20) 7834 4924 Fax: (44 0 20) 8780-1989 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.rarebookhunter.com/ http://www.nigelphillips.com Science, medicine, literature, 'the Scot abroad' Science and medicine Catalogs issued Catalogs issued By appointment only By appointment only ABA,ILAB

11 I Pickering & Chatto Thornton's Bookshop 36 St. George Street Wightwick London W1R 9FA Fox Lane UNITED KINGDOM Boars Hill Medical book specialist: Deborah Coltham Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 5DR Tel. (44 0 207) 491-2656 UNITED KINGDOM Fax (44 0 207) 491-9161 Tel.: (44 (0) 18) 6524 2939 [email protected] Fax: (44 (0) 18) 6520 4021 http://www.pickering-chatto.com/ P.:W.A.Meeuws,J. S.Meeuws Social sciences, science and medicine, Literature [email protected] Catalogs issued; appraisals performed http://www.thorntonsbooks.co.uk 9:30 to 5:30, Monday to Friday; and by appointment Catalogs issued ABA,IT..,AB Books on most subjects including social sciences, his tory, science and medicine By appointment only Patrick Pollak Rare Books Moorview, Plymouth Road South Brent, Devon TQ10 9HT W. P. Watson Antiquarian Books UNITED KINGDOM P.O. Box 29745 P.: Dr. Patrick M. Pollak London NW3 7ZW Tel.: (44 0 13) 647 3457 UNITED KINGDOM Fax: (44 0 13) 64 64 91 26 P.: Rick Watson [email protected] · Tel.: (44 0 20) 74 31 04 89 http://www.rarevols.co.uk Fax: (44 0 20) 74 31 04 95 History ofmedicine and science, "natural history, phi [email protected] losophy, exploration http://www.worldbookdealers.com Catalogs issued; appraisals performed Science and technology, medicine, natural history, By appointment only incunabula, early printing, illustrated books ABA,IT..,AB Catalogs issued By appointment only IT..,AB Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. 5-8 Lower John Street Golden Square Graham Weiner London W1F 9AU 78 Rosebery Road UNITED KINGDOM London N1 0 2LA Science and medicine director: Detlev Auvermann UNITED KINGDOM Tel.: (44 0 20) 7734 2983 Tel.: (44 0 20) 88 83 84 24 Fax: (44 0 20) 7437 0967 Fax: ( 44 0 20) 84 44 65 05 [email protected] [email protected] http://www.bernardquaritch.com/ Medicine, science and technology, transportation Numerous fields, including science and medicine Catalogs issued Catalogs issued; appraisals performed ABA,IT..,AB 9:00 to 6:00 Monday to Friday; and by appointment ABA,IT..,AB

12 Mark Westwood Dr. Hoff's Therapeutic Bibliotheca High Town 763 SammonAvenue Hay-on-Wye, Hereford HR3 5AE Toronto, Ontario M4C 2E6 UNITED KINGDOM CANADA P.: Mark Westwood P.: Tory Hoff Tel.: (44 0 1497) 82 00 68 Tel.: (416) 429-9767 Fax: (44 0 1497) 82 16 41 Fax: (416) 429-8162 [email protected]: [email protected] Science and technology, medicine, mathematics, ge http://www.drhoff.com/books,htm ology, philosophy Psychology, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, theology, 10:30 to 5:30, everyday Church history ABA,ILAB ***

Michael North is Rare Book Cataloger at the History Canada ofMedicine Division, National Library of Medicine.

Robert Campbell, Bookseller Ex Libris Books 1628-B Sherbrooke St. West Montreal, QC H3H 1C9 CANADA P: Robert Campbell Tel.: (514) 932-1689 Fax: (514) 932-1749 SWANN [email protected] AUCT I 0 NS http://www.abebooks.com/home/rcampbel/ Rare Book Auctioneers History of ideas, economics, radicalism, medicine, conduct 40 sales annually including science, technology regularly scheduled sales of 11 to 6, Monday through Thursday; 11-9, Fridays; 11 Books on to 5, Saturdays Science • Medicine • Natural History Catalogs issued; appraisals performed ABAC,ILAB APRIL 14 AT 10:30 AM EARLY PRINTED BooKs Greenfield Books MEDICAL BOOKS 217 Academy Road Catalogue $20 Winnipeg, MB R3M OE3 CANADA Inquiries: Tobias Abel.off, 212 254 4710, Ext. r8 P.: Michael Park e-mail: [email protected] Tel.: (204) 488-2023 Fax: (204) 488-3508 Auction schedule and catalogues online at www.swanngalleries.com [email protected] http://www.greenfieldbooks.com At.rroGPJ\?HS Swann Galleries, Inc. BOOKS I~~~SUI~;~!~!~ 104 East :z.5ili Street Fine bindings, law, medicine, nautical, polar, maps & ;:·HOTOGPJ\i''HS New York, NY 1oo1o prints POSTERS Tel 212. 254 4710 WOHKS Of .

13 FROM THE PRESIDENT EDWIN V. GLASER RARE BOOKS I hope you all had a productive fall and fall semester. PO Box 755 It is hard to believe that another year is almost over. Napa, CA 94559 For me, the fall was a particularly busy time. Here at Virginia Commonwealth University we held a formal * * * * opening for our renovated Tompkins-McCaw Library Rare; important, and historic books in ... on November 6th. I had spent the better part of the MEDICINE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY last year working with contractors, inspectors, archi Catalogues issued . .. Visitors by Appointment tects and designers so that our library might have a Established in 1964 fresh look, at least on the main level! For those inter ested in following the trials and tribulations of the * * * * project, be sure to visit our renovations photo gallery at http://www.library. vcu. edu/tml/renovations/ Phone: (707) 258-6281 Fax: (707) 258-8625 photogallery.html. email: [email protected] web page: glaserrarebooks.com To keep my archival skills sharp during this period when I was reading blue prints and troubleshooting the renovations project, I journeyed up the road every Tuesday evening to teach a class on archives to stu realized that they would also receive an introduction dents enrolled in the Historic Preservation Program at to the history of medicine while learning about ar Mary Washington College (home department of the chives. Teaching a course such as this requires nu other JK's husband, Mike Klein). The class I taught is merous examples. Naturally I looked to the collec designed to examine the role of archives in society tions at the Tompkins-McCaw Library for classroom and to introduce students to some of the basic prin examples and case studies. In addition, I introduced ciples for managing archival materials. I am sure that my students to the collections at the Claude Moore none ofthe students who signed up to take this course Health Sciences Library at the University ofVirginia, the College ofPhysicians ofPhiladelphia, the Archives & Special Collections on Women in Medicine and Books on the Homeopathy and the National Library of Medicine. The work that each of these institutions has under History of Medicine taken to make their resources accessible is truly amaz ing and greatly appreciated by those of us who like to teach through illustrations. One student in the class • became so interested that she decided to focus one of Catalog on request her class assignments on history ofmedicine resources. • This may not be a classic example of archival out reach but it has been an effective one for me. I always welcome an opportunity to introduce the history of Webb Dordick medicine to a new audience. · 15 Ash Avenue Best wishes to you all for 2003. Somerville, MA 02145 Jodi Koste

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14 \ ALHHS ANNUAL MEETING www.starwood.com/westin. Registration materials for the ALHHS meeting will be distributed to members 2003 will see the return ofALHHS to Boston for the in late January. For additional information on the pro organization's annual meeting on May 1. Held, as gram, tours, or questions about the meeting in gen usual, in conjunction with the meetings ofthe Medical eral, contact Jack Eckert at the Countway Library (617- Museums Association and American Association for 432-6207). the History of Medicine, the ALHHS meeting should be both entertaining and provocative, giving members Jack Eckert an opportunity to connect with colleagues, keep up to Chair, ALHHS Local Arrangements date on changes in law with relevance to medical archives, and sample the rich medical history and the MEMBERSIDP DUES mythical springtime ofBoston. It has been over twenty years since ALHHS convened in the Bay State, and The request for ALHHS membership dues for the this year's meeting should be an exciting fusion ofthe calendar year 2003 was mailed in November. Please past and future. make your check for $15 payable to ALHHS and send it by January 15, 2003 to: Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, As part ofour tradition, ALHHS and MEMAmembers ALHHS Secretary/treasurer, c/o Health Sciences will meet on the evening ofWednesday, April30, for Library, UW-Madison, 1305 Linden Drive, Madison, dinner-in 2003, we'll be assembling at the Harvard WI 53706-1593. Faculty Club in Cambridge. On May· 1, ALHHS members will gather at the Countway Library of Membership is open to librarians and archivists with Medicine on the campus of Harvard Medical responsibilitie~ for collections and services in the his"' School. The morning will open with a brief awards tory of the health sciences; antiquarian booksellers; ceremony and then move immediately into our physicians; historians. and others interested in histori program devoted to a discussion of issues and cal health sciences collections. Members receive a consequences surrounding access to patient subscription to The Watermark, the association's quar information to comply with the HIPAA (Health terly newsletter, an occasional membership directory, Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and access to ALHHS-L, the private listserv for our regulations. Following the program, the business members. meeting ofALHHS will be held in conjunction with a box lunch. If you have any questions about membership, please contact Micaela at (608) 262-2402. The afternoon of May 1 will be devoted to a choice of tours-options will include libraries and sites of medical interest, including the Ether Dome and Archives at Massachusetts General Hospital, the new Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of TROTTING IDLL PARK BOOKS Humanity and the Mapparium on the Christian Science P.O. Box 60866 Longmeadow, MA01116 Plaza in Boston, and, ofcourse, the Countway Library 413-567-6466 of Medicine and Warren Museum at Harvard. An E-Mail: [email protected] additional special tour of gravesites and monuments of medical interest in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Rare and Scholarly Cambridge has also been scheduled. Medical, Nursing, Dental, Veterinary Books, Manuscripts, Ephemera The conference hotel for the AAHM meeting will be Broadsides & Photographs the Westin Copley Place, at 10 Huntingdon Avenue, in downtown Boston; you can obtain information on Catalogues Sent On Request reservations from the hotel at 617-262-9600 or search Appraisals, Searches and Special Requests on the Starwood Westin website at:

15 ALHHSBYLAWSCHANGES books and report to the Association at the Annual Meeting. At the ALllliS business meeting to be held this spring in Boston, members will be asked to vote on a num NOMINATIONS ber ofbylaws changes. The changes will create stand ing committees for awards and publications and these Lisabeth M. Holloway Award new standing committees will handle responsibilities previously handled by a variety of ALHHS commit This distinguished service award for members of the tees. It is hoped that these changes will streamline our Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health operations and facilitate the work ofour organization. Sciences was named in honor ofLisabeth M. Holloway Thanks to Patricia Gallagher for compiling these by who was a founder and who served as president Pro law changes. Tern in 1975, and was for many years the editor of The Watermark. The award recognizes significant con The ALllliS Constitution and Bylaws can be found tributions through leadership and service to ALllliS in the ALllliS Directory (200 1) and online at http:/I and the profession. www.li brary. ucla. edu/libraries/biomed/alhhs/ bylaws.htm. Previous recipients of the award are: Estelle Brodman (1993) Proposed Changes Nancy Whitten Zinn (1997) Judith (Robin) Overmier (2000) Amend Article IY, Section 1 Standing Committees as follows: (underscored text is the proposed language text to be added to existing section of the bylaws) Nominations Procedure

A. Standing Committees of the Association shall be Nominations should be submitted as a one..: to two the Steering Committee, Program Committee, the page letter describing the nominee's outstanding pro Nominating Committee,· the Awards and fessional achievements and the impact ofhis/her con Recognitions Committee, and the Publications tributions on ALllliS and the profession. A current Committee. The President shall_serve as ex officio curriculum vitae as well as letter(s) of support (a limit chair ofthe Steering Committee and shall appoint of 2) are not required but provide helpful additional a chair for each additional Standing Committee.

E. The Publications Committee will be responsible for publication of The Watermark, maintenance RARE BOOKS & of the ALHHS web site, publication of the MANUSCRIPTS Membership Directory, and any other necessary publication projects, physical or virtual. I sth,2oth Century science, Medicine, Technology, Natural History, Add new section F: Early Printed & Illustrated Books. F. TheAwards and Recognitions Committee will be catalogues Issued. responsible for determining the recipients of all grants and honors bestowed by the organization. B & L Rootenberg Renumber current section F to G: Post Office Box 5049- Sherman Oaks, California 91403 @ Telephone: {818} 788-7765 ~W G The President shall appoint an auditing committee Telefax: [818} 788-8839 •• three months prior to the Annual Meeti:Q.g. The [email protected] Committee shall review the Treasurer's account www.rootenbergbooks.com

16 l information to the Awards Committee. The Commit For further information, please call (301) 594-0975 tee may also seek additional information on a nomi or send an e-mail to [email protected]. nee from the nominator or other sources as needed. ALHHS Recognition of Merit Criteria for evaluation: The ALHHS Recognition ofMerit is designed to honor Membership in ALHHS and recognize individuals for their donations or ser ALHHS office(s) held vice to health science libraries. It is awarded irregu ALHHS committee(s) chaired or served on Outstand larly; and no more than one award per year may be ing service to one's institution made. Contributions to the profession, i.e., history ofhealth science librarianship/archival administration. This award is new to ALHHS and has not been awarded previously. A nominee cannot be a member ofthe Committee nor can a Committee member nominate. If no worthy There are two categories of recognition: nominations are received, no award will be given. • The first category of recognition: individuals, ei Nominations for The Lisabeth M. Holloway Award ther members or .non-members, who make gifts are due by March 1, 2003. The winner will be an of an extraordinary nature to health sciences li nounced at the annual meeting of ALHHS in Boston braries. Gifts ofmagnitude would include, but not ·on May 1, 2003, and presented with an engraved crys be limited, to the following: tal paperweight. The winner is not required to be present. • Materials such as rare/historical books, journals, or items in other formats, of significant value, book Submit nominations and any accompanying materi collections by author or subject, or furniture, com als to: puters or other kinds of equipment.

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Catalogues issued - desiderata lists welcome While searching the MEDLINE database through OVID this summer, I came upon an article that had MICHAEL PHELPS appeared in The Watermark. This citation, however, Allfreys House, Bolney Road said the item was published in another journal, The Cowfold, West Sussex RH13 8AZ Scalpel and Tongs, a journal of medical philately. ENGLAND Further exploration revealed that many articles, not Tel: +44 (0) 1403 864 049 only from The Watermark, but from a variety ofjour Fax: +44 (0) 1403 864 730 nals, were cited as being in The Scalpel and Tongs.

18 l includes works in neurology and the neurosciences Specializing in Ephemera that span five centuries. More than a thousand vol Catalogs Issued umes are rare with authors such as Jean Martin Char cot, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Harvey Cushing, George An Uncommon Vision Combe, and Andreas Vesalius (Fabrica, 1543). 1425 Greywall Lane Wynnewood, PA 19096 *** The Robert L. Sadoff Library of Forensic Psychiatry 610/658-0953 and Legal Medicine has been presented to the Library 610/658-0961 fax · of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Dr. [email protected] Sadoff; a Fellow ofthe College since 1979 and a noted http://www.abebooks.com/home/uncommonvision forensic psychiatrist with an appointment at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania Medical School, has given some 3,500 books he has collected during the past Puzzled by this, I wrote to the editor, expressing sur forty years. The Sadoff Library is rich, not only in his prise that so many items from other sources were be specialty, but also in the related fields of criminology, ing cited in his journal. The editor kindly replied that penology, and medicine in its relationship to law. the articles were not, in fact, in The Scalpel and Tongs.

I then asked the MEDLINE folk at the National Li brary of Medicine if they were aware of this strange SIMON FINCH occurrence. They were not. And to further complicate the situation, the citations in PubMed were correct, leading us to believe that something had occurred when the items were loaded into OVID.

The problem is being pursued by NLM and will be corrected. In the meantime, ifyou are searching a topic in the history of medicine and come across items that do not seem to have any relation to philately but are cited in The Scalpel and Tongs, check the volume numbers and dates of the journals. You will soon see they do not correlate with the volumes and dates of The Scalpel and Tongs.

We offer our apologies to the editor for an error he did not create. And we will let you know when the cita tions are right once again.

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The Archives and Rare Books Departnient of the Ber Tel: (+44 207) 499 0974 Fax: (+44 207) 499 0799 nard Becker Medical Library celebrated the outstand http://www.simonfinch.com ing book collection presented by H. Richard Tyler, M.D., on0ctober24. The giftofsome7,000volumes 19 Along with the books, Dr. Sadoff has donated funds nent caricaturists as William Hogarth, Thomas needed to hire two temporary staff members to cata Rowlandson, James Gillray, and George Cruikshank. log the collection. The Library has hired Angela Konin, It will run through April of2003. a recent college graduate who is considering In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, librarianship as a career, and Leigh Keller, a student graphic social satire enjoyed great popularity, espe in the Drexel University Library School, to catalog cially in Britain. These satires or caricatures expressed the collection. many ofthe prevailing social and political attitudes of the day. Intellectuals, politicians, the clergy, the mili On Exhibit tary, and of course practitioners of medicine were all subject to the pointed critiques ofthe satirist. Medical An exhibition, Conception to Birth, is now on display practice was undergoing significant changes during at the National Museum of Health and Medicine of the eighteenth century. Classical humoral pathology the Anned Forces Institute of Pathology. It is based and its diagnoses and treatments were beginning to on a book by Alexander Tsiara that traces the growth show sharp contrast to emerging scientific theories. and development of human life and described by the Medical therapeutics had little significant effect until editor as "an extraordinary marriage of breathtaking the nineteenth century. The era depicted in these prints visual art and cutting-edge medical science." It was reflects an important transition in medical history. featured on a recent cover of Time Magazine and may ·be viewed at http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/ex The Department houses nearly three hundred of these hibits/conception/index.html. lively and humorous prints. The collection includes gifts from the Maine Medical Center and Robert By using a new medical imaging technology, Tsiaras Norton Ganz, M.D. and is currently in the process of captured images of the developing baby from never being cataloged. When the project is complete the . before seen angles. More than 80 of these images, an collection will appear in Harvard's VIA catalog. interactive display, and a ten-minute video that chronicles human development from conception to birth, will be on display at the museum through Au gust 29, 2003. A resource center will allow museum visitors a chance to review the book as well as other books about development. Mine( Pkiflins L ~~RARE BOOKSL. Many of the images in the exhibit and book are from the museum's Carnegie Human Embryology Collec Antiquarian bookseller specialising tion, which primarily focuses on normal development in the history of medicine in the first eight weeks of pregnancy. The collection and the health sciences was started by Franklin Paine Mall, an embryologist who co-founded the American Journal ofAnatomy, Please send for my catalogue, which was published from his laboratory for eight years. For further information please see http:// or call for an appointment nmhm. washingtondc .museum/collections/hdac/ when in London anatomy.htm. 5 BURLEIGH PLACE, PUTNEY *** LONDON SW15 6ES, ENGLAND

An exhibit, The Language ofthe Age: Depictions of (020) 8788 2664 Medicine in Graphic Satire, is on display at the Fax (020) 8780 1989 Countway Library of Medicine. The exhibit features the highlights of the collection of satires or carica E-mail: [email protected] tures held in the Rare Books and Special Collections www.nigelphillips.com Department of the Countway, including such promi- 20 l August 12, 1853, she started her duties as superinten- dent of the Establishment for Gentlewomen During w 0 IffiiiR1IJ cc JE JF wJE illness at 1 Upper Harley Street, London. She left this ANTIQUARIAN MEDICAL BooKs post in 1854 for the Crimean War. The project direc tor for publishing the Collected Works of Florence 1533 SEASONS LANE, sw Nightingale, Lynn McDonald, Ph.D., asks if medical • ·RocHESTER, MN 55902 historians and archivists are planning to mark this anniversary by examining and reflecting on her con tributions. . TEL 507-285-5893 E STABUSHED 1972 FAX 507-285-1601 Three volumes of the Collected Works are now avail E-MAIT. [email protected] able: Florence Nightingales Life and Family, Florence Nightingale: Spiritual Journey, and Florence WWW.FYEBOOKS.COM Nightingales Theology. In production are Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions and Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics. In pro cess is Public Health Care, where Nightingale's Notes For further information, contact Peter Rawson, Archi on Nursing for the Labouring Classes will appear, val Assistant for Processing and Visual hnages, who along with her work on bringing trained nursing into mouilted the exhibit, at (617) 432-2173. For images the workhouse infirmaries, andother writingonhealth from the exhibit, please visit the Rare Books Exhibit promotion, disease prev~ntion, and even germ theory. Web page at http://www.countway.harvard.edu/ In preparing the Nightingale volumes, ·material has rarebooks/reference/exhibitindex.html. been obtained from some 170 archives and private collections worldwide. It has also become clear that *** there is a great deal of material still to be located. Dr. McDonald is asking librarians and archivists to let her Monday0ctober21 marked the 100thanniversaryof know oftheir holdings, especially those not registered the conception of the New York State Nurse Practice in any central registry. Act. Although the act was not voted into law until April1903, the debates were held in Rochester, New The plan is to make all ofNightingale's writings avail York, on this date. The outcome was the designation able. Letters that do not appear in the sixteen print of R.N., or Registered Nurse, to be the legal title for volumes will be included in the electronic text with all nurses covered by the act. databases that will be published later. For further in formation contact Dr. McDonald at the University of For further information contact Philip Maples, Cura Guelph or visit the web site on the project at tor/Director ofthe Bak:er-Cederberg Museum and Ar www.sociology. uoguelph.calfnightingale. chives at Rochester General Hospital, at (585) 922- 3521. Please visit the Nurse Practice of1903 Web site McGovern Center Opens at www. viahealth.org/archives. After nearly two years ofplanning, the Houston Acad *** emy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library has Another online exhibit. Powerful Grace Lies in Herbs opened a new facility to serve as the repository for the and Plants, may be viewed on the Becker Medical extensive manuscript collections and institutional ar Library web site: http://becker.wustl.edu/ARB/ chives held by the John P. McGovern Historical Col index-t.htm. lections and Research Center.

Nightingale Anniversary The Center, a department within the HAM-TMC Li brary, suffered extensive damages to its materials as a Next August marks the 150th anniversary of the be result of the Tropical Storm Allison. The need to re ginning ofFlorence Nightingale's nursing career. On move all material from flood level, as well as the an- 21 l ticipation of future acquisitions, led to the decision to jor themes: history of medicine in the pre-1800 pe- open a separate, off-site location known as the His riod; history of medicine in the 19th and 20th centu torical Research Center (HRC). ries; and literature and medicine. The SAHMS pro gram and registration material is available on this The new facility, with 9,000 sq. ft. of space for its website: http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/sahms/. For further archival collections, solved the storage problem that information, contact Jonathon Erlen, program chair, existed within the library. An additional 2,000 sq.ft. at [email protected]. provides for staff offices, client workspaces, and a conference room. The client work area, complete with Student Activity Internet-accessible computer and photocopy/scanner/ fax capabilities, is open to all researchers. The con The Archives and Rare Books Staff of the Bernard ference room, also computer-equipped, is available by Becker Medical Library at Washington University appointment and provides a quiet area for those need taught a record number ofregistered medical students ing meeting space. in the history of medicine course. The staff also pre pared a display and lecture featuring the outstanding The Center holds archives from more than seventy collection of anatomy atlases held b.y the Library for Houston-area medical institutions, including news let first-year medical students. ters and scrapbooks; the manuscript collections of prominent local physicians and researchers involved *** with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission; the NASA Space Life Sciences Archive; and other sources The Waring Historical Library supports the Student on the history of medicine in Texas. Other materials Medical History Club. Events include amonthly lunch include medical school yearbooks, old nursing caps, with speakers on history of medicine topics; an elec: an assortment of artificial eyes from the Autrey Col tive interdisciplinary course called Topics in the His;.. lection, a sword contributed by Dr. Ruth Hartgraves, tory ofthe Health Sciences; and a Senior History Ro and a tooth belonging to Dr. William Seybold. tation in which senior medical students prepare a pa- . per on a historical tppic under the direction of the Di For further information please call 713.799.7135 or rector, Dr. Curtis Worthington. visit the website http://mcgovern.library.tmc.edu. Good Listening Meetings of Interest The 2002/2003 History of the Health Sciences Lec The fifth annual meeting of the Southern Association tures of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library for the History of Medicine and Science will be held are held in the Wilhelm Moll Rare Book and Medical February21-22, 2003 in the Duke Medical Center and History Room of the Library. All are open to the pub on the campus ofUniversity ofNorth Carolina, Chapel lic. HilL Sixty-six papers will be presented on three rna-·

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22 l November 6: Deborah Leigh Blum, MA, University tain Retreats, Asthma Germs & Patent Medicine: Epi- ofWisconsin-Madison School ofJoumalism and Mass sodes in the History ofAsthma. Communication, speaking on The Cloth Monkey: The Life ofHarry Harlow. Co-sponsored with the Center December 11: Yolande Cohen, Ph.D., Visiting Pro for Biomedical Ethics. fessor of History, Princeton University, speaking on Gender History and the History ofNursing. Co-spon November 20: Andrea Tone, Ph.D., Georgia Institute sored with the Center for the Study of the History of of Technology School of History, Technology, and Nursing. Society, speaking on Bodies of Evidence: Locating the Lost World ofAmerican Birth Control. Co-spon *** sored with Humanities in Medicine. The Waring Library Society, the friends' group of the February 5: Jeanne Guillemin, Senior Fellow, MIT Waring Historical Library, sponsors two special lec Security Studies Program and Professor of Sociology tures each year. at Boston College, speaking on The 1979 Sverdlvosk Anthrax Outbreak: Researching Bioterrorism. Co Fall Lecture, November 7, 2002: William A. Gardner, sponsored with Humanities in Medicine. Jr., M.D., Executive Director of the American Regis try of Pathology; Armed Forces fustitute of Pathol February 26: PeytonT. Taylor, Jr., M.D., Richard N. ogy, speaking on Through a Glass Brightly: Our Heri and Louise R. Crockett Professor and Medical Direc tage ofMicroscopy. tor, University ofVirginia Cancer Center, speaking on Prom Dung/is on to Osler to Harrison: Principles and Practice ofMedicine in Three Giant Steps.

March 26: Duane J. Osheim, Ph.D., Professor, Corcoran Department ofHistory and Associate Dean, University of Vrrginia, speaking on Identifying Dis eases in the Past: Chroniclers and the Black Death. The Seventh Annual Kenneth R. Crispell Memorial History Lecture. ANTIQUARIAN MEDICAL BOOKS *** Specialist: Deborah Coltham The Francis C. Wood fustitute for the History ofMedi cine sponsored the following seminars during the fall of2002: PICKERING& November 5: Paul Kopperman, Ph.D., Professor of CHATTO History, Oregon State University, speaking on Vener ate the Lancet: Rush s Yellow Fever Therapy in Con INCORPORATING text. DAWSONSOFPALL~L

November 19: PatriciaD' Antonio, Ph.D., RN, Senior Fellow, Center for the History ofNursing and editor, Nursing History Review, speaking on Who Is a Nurse, 36 ST. GEORGE' STREET Redux. LONDONW1R9FA

December 3: Carla Keirns, M.D., Doctoral candidate Tel: 0207 491 2656 Fax: 0207 491 9161 in the Department of History and Sociology of Sci [email protected] ence, University ofPennsylvania, speaking on Moun- 23 I Spring Lecture, April8, 2003: Kenneth M. Ludmerer, April23: John Crellin, M.D., Ph.D., John Clinch Pro- M.D., speaking on The Coming ofthe Second Revo fessor of the History of Medicine, Memorial Univer lution in Medical Education. Held in conjunction with sity of Newfoundland, speaking on Validating Mod the Society's Annual Meeting. ern Folk and Prescription Medicines: Two Cultures or Two Sides ofthe Same Coin? *** *** The Historical Collections of the University of Ala bama at Birmingham announces the following lecture The Historia Medica Lecture Series, begun by the series for 2003. All lectures are held in the Ireland Archives and Rare Books section of the Bernard Room of the Lister Hill Library. Becker Medical Library in 2001, continued last year on October 10, 2002, with Shelley McKellar, Ph.D., February?: Max D. Cooper, M.D., ProfessorofPedi speaking on Artificial Hearts: Technology and Organ atrics and Medicine, Division of Developmental and Replacement in Twentieth Century Medicine. Clinical Immunology, UAB, speaking on The Origin of the Immune System. The 24th Annual Reynolds NEWS FROM HMD Historical Lecture. By Elizabeth Fee · March 28: William D. Haniril.onds, M.D., Professor of Anesthesia, the University of Iowa Hospitals and Exhibitions Clinics, speaking on D.octor s Day and Anesthesia, the Legacy of Dr. Crawford W. Long. The Doctor's Dream Anatomy, our new exhibition, opened on Oc Day Lecture. tober9 and willrun'throughJuly31, 2003. It is a spec tacular show, presenting imaginative, surreal, gro tesque, and whimsical images ofhuman anatomy, from the early modem period to the present. The exhibi tion, curated by Michael Sappol has been receiving wonderful reviews from the New York Times, the Wash ington Post, JAMA, Science, and many other publica tions. You can check out the online version on our Antiquarian & Out of Print website www.nlm.nih.gov/dreamanatomy and come Medical Books by and see the physical show whenever you have the chance. Guided tours of the exhibit are offered every weekday at 2:00pm by our exhibition educator, Jiwon Kim. 4639 Peppertree Lane Memphis, TN 38117 USA In collaboration with the American Library Associa tion, and with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the NLM exhibit, Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets ofNature, is beginning to travel Tel. 901 767-1514 to more than eighty libraries around the country. Each host library is organizing local programs, lectures, film Fax. 901 682-8315 series or other activities. A very lively and energetic E-mail: [email protected] group of representatives from the host libraries at www.oldsouthbooks.com tended a workshop in Bethesda to plan these programs, share ideas, talk with the curators, Susan Lederer and Betty Bennett, and learn how to assemble and break .Catalogues Sent on Request down the traveling version of the exhibition.

24 l World Wide Web September 3: James Cassedy, "John Shaw Billings: Was he also a Historian?" A Web exhibit, "I Swear by Apollo Physician . .. ": Greek medicine from the Gods to Galen, , prepared October 8: Linda A. Fisher, "Early 19th Century Syphi by Michael North with design assistance from Troy lis Treatment: One Man's Experience." Hill, is now live on the Web. November 4: David Rosner and Gerald E. Markowitz, New finding aids to the manuscript collections avail "Covering the World with Lead: The History of a Pub able on the Web include Group Health Association lic Health Tragedy." (MS C 515) and Medical Library Association; there are also subject guides to the tropical medicine col November 13: Eric C. Colman, "The Medical lections and to the midwifery, nursing and obstetrics Hiostorian and the Critic: Early 20th Century Corre collections. spondence of Fielding H. Garrison and H.L. Mencken." The website for the Donald S. Fredrickson papers is now available on ''Profiles in Science." Fredrickson December 11: John Parascandola, "Quarantining Pros was the late Director of the National Institutes of titutes: VD Rapid Treatm.ent Centers in World War II Health. America."

Acquisitions Publications ,.

Archives and Modem Manuscripts: Notable recent Rutgers University Press •:published Susan Lederer's acquisitions include the John Eisenberg papers and Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature, An the Wilbur Sawyer papers (including films). Eisenberg Exhibition by the National Library ofMedicine. It is· a was the director ofthe Agency for Healthcare Research gorgeous catalogue ofthewell-received 1997-98 ex and Quality and a noted leader in the area of health hibition, along with an original scholarly essay about services research. Sawyer's papers document yellow the themes of the exhibition. fever and hookworm eradication projects in Africa and Asia. Elizabeth Fee, "History and Development of Public . Health." in Principles ofPublic Health Practice, ed. Books: Anselme Julian, De l 'Art et Jugement des F. Douglas Scutchfield and C. William Keck (New Songes & Visions Nocturnes (Lyons, 1619) is a rare York: Thomson/ Delmar Learning, 2003), 11-30. book that discusses dreams in general and provides accounts of famous biblical, classical, and modem Elizabeth Fee, "The Origins and Development ofPub dreams, together with a taxonomy and index. lic Health in the United States," in Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader, ed. Lawrence 0. Gostin (Ber Johann Valentin Mueller (1756-1813), Ueber keley: University of California Press, 2002), 27-35. Bleykrankheiten (Frankfurt am Main, 1796), an early work on lead poisoning, its symptoms, and treatments. Elizabeth Fee, Theodore M. Brown, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman, "The Effects of the Corset," Ameri Newly acquired pamphlets advertise Pulvermacher's can Journal of Public Health 92, July 2002, 1085; electric belts, Russian Rose Balm, Dr. Seeley's trusses, "Young Men of 50 and 60 Years Behave Like Kids and Egyptian Regulator Tea. After Having Read the New Work by M. Flourens," American Journal ofPublic Health 92, August 2002, Public Lectures at NLM 1222; "Public Health Service Dentist Examines an Alaska Native Child," American Journal of Public July 10: Susan Speaker, "Creating A Monster: Health 92, September 2002, 1420. Newspapers, Magazines, and the .Framing of America's Drug Problem, 1920-1940."

25 Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee, Isaac Max Rubinow: Advocate for Social Insurance," American Journal ofPublic Health 92, August 2002,1224-1225.

Transitions

Manon Parry, who has provided research services to the upcoming exhibition on the history of American women physicians as a contractor, was promoted to associate curator; Deshaun Williams joined HMD a technician in historical AVs; Sandra Brauksieck be gan as technician in the Digital Manuscripts Program.

Ba Ba Chang started work as Divisional Secretary for the History of Medicine; Susan Speaker transferred to the Digital Manuscrips Program from the Exhibi tion Program; Eric Boyle completed his summer in ternship in DMP as part ofNIH's Summer Internship Opportunities Program; Sachie Kobayashi began her work cataloging the Japanese collection.

Visitors

Visitors included the new ~NIH Director, Elias Zerhouni, the former NLM Director, Dr. Martin Cummings, the Ambassador and Deputy Prime Min ister oflreland, the former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, and several thousand slightly lesser luminar Ies.

26 27 The Watermark is issued quarterly to members of Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences and is edited by Lilli Sentz.

Membership information may be obtained from Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, Historical Collections, W.S. Middleton Health Sciences Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1305 Linden Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1593; (608) 262-2402; FAX (608) 262-4732; [email protected]

Production deadlines are 1 March, 1 June, 1 September, and 1 December

Submissions may be sent to: Lilli Sentz, The Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, 333 Cedar Street, P.O. Box 208014, New Haven, CT 06520-8014; (203)785-4354; FAX (203) 785-4369; E-MAIL [email protected].

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