Arnold Carl Klebs.

Date:
1943
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Arnold Carl Klebs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARNOLD CARL KLEBS* The death of Arnold Carl Klebs, a distinguished American physician, in Nyon, Switzerland, on March 6, 1943, brings to a close a life of unusual achievement in medicine and medical bibliography. Known to comparatively few physicians of the present generation in America, his influence, nevertheless, was widespread among a small group of doctors particularly interested in medical history. As a specialist, moreover, he was a leading figure in this country at the turn of the century in the fight against the ‘great white plague.” In later years his work as the bibliographer of the scien¬ tific and medical incunabula was deeply appreci¬ ated in scholarly circles. Klebs, like his predecessor, Conrad Gesner, kept his home open in Switzer¬ land to a host of American visitors who found his delightful villa at Nyon, on the shore of Lake Geneva, a welcome resting place in their peregri¬ nations about Europe. Many a weary doctor, ex¬ hausted from a great international congress, sought relaxation in this quiet retreat. One found, moreover, an energetic and active man ready to exchange ideas in a stimulating and brilliant man¬ ner, often prodding his friends to bring out the *An exhibit of books, pamphlets and pictures having to do with Dr. Klebs is now on display in the rotunda of the Boston Medical Library. Reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine 229:259-262 (August 5), 1943.