The Boston Medical Library : its past, present and future / by James F. Ballard.

  • Ballard, James F. (James Francis), 1878-
Date:
1908
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: The Boston Medical Library : its past, present and future / by James F. Ballard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Goldsmith, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Lever, Linacre, John Locke, Thomas Lodge, Marat, S. Weir Mitchell, Moli&re, Count Rum- ford, Schiller, Albert Smith, Tobias Smollett, John Wolcott, Thomas Young, etc. 6. Novels, tales, plays and poetry relating to medicine or to medical subjects. The following list of titles will give an idea of this class of material. Couvreur, “Le mal n6eessaire”; Everts, “ The Cliffords ”; Fenn, “ Nurse Elisia ”; MacDonald, “Paul Faber, Surgeon”; Ouida, “ Toxin Zola, “ Dr. Pascal ” and “ Lourdes ”; Hichens, “ Felix,” etc. Also works of fiction that contain character sketches of physicians or descriptions of medical scenes, viz.: Thackeray, “ Pendennis ” and “Adventures of Philip”; Dickens, “Bleak House”; Charlotte Bront6, “ Villette”; Mrs. Gaskell, “ Wives and Daugh- ters”; Miss Martineau, “Deerbrook”; George Eliot, “ Middlemarch Ian Maclaren, “ Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush,” etc. 7. Medical, dental and other allied profes- sional school catalogues, announcements and other publications; hospital reports; reports of boards of health and vital statistics; registration, sewerage and water boards; and state and national documents relating to medical and allied subjects in any language. 8. Books, periodicals, etc., on dentistry, veteri- nary medicine and surgery, comparative anatomy, pathology and physiology. 9. Very old medical publications. 10. Material relating to vaccination, vivisec- tion and other controversial subjects. 11. Sets or volumes of the “ Index Medicus ” and “ Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, U. S. Army.” 12. Transactions of general scientific societies, s