TY - BOOK AU - Sappol, Michael AU - Sappol,Michael AU - North,Michael J. ED - National Library of Medicine (U.S.) TI - Hidden treasure: the National Library of Medicine SN - 9780922233427 (alk. paper) AV - Z733.N3 H53 2012 U1 - 026/.610973 23 PY - 2012///] CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Blast Books KW - National Library of Medicine (U.S.) KW - History KW - Medical libraries KW - United States KW - Medicine KW - Collection development KW - Library materials KW - Libraries, Medical KW - Catalogs KW - Collections KW - History of Medicine KW - Library Materials KW - მედიცინა N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD -- Introduction / Michael J. North, Jeffrey S. Reznick, and Michael Sappol -- Commentaries on Aristotle's De anima, Lambertus de Monte -- Epitome, Andreas Vasalius -- Isagoge, Iohannitius --Artificial teledioptric eye, Johann Zahn -- Langenburg Manuscript, Walter von Nitzschwitz and others -- Rare plants of the Amsterdam Medical Garden. Jan Commelin [et al.] -- Anatomy of the human body, Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Ilyās -- Examples of Chinese medicine, Andreas Cleyer -- Anatomical charts for the new acupuncture, Tang Xuezheng -- First: Science-Anatomy, "Clorion" -- Complete study of human anatomy, Jean-Baptiste MarcBourgery -- Obstetric tables, George Spratt -- Nurse Postcards Collection -- International Nurse Uniform Photograph Collection, Helene Fuld Health Foundation -- Midwife dolls -- White's physiological manikin, James T. White & Co. -- Sinhala Palm-leaf medical manuscripts -- China illustrated, Athanasius Kircher -- Charles Darwin Collection -- Manners, customs, and dresses of the Hindoos, Balthazar Solvyns -- Travels in the interior districts of Africa, Mungo Park -- Sūtra of great liberation -- Marvels of things created, Al-Qazwini -- Complete notes on the dissection of cadavers, Shinnin Kawaguchi -- New book on anatomy, Johann Adam Kulmus and others -- Anatomical essay on the movement of blood, William Harvey -- Drawings of arteries, Charles Bell -- Atlas of topographic anatomy, Eugène-Louis Doyen -- Palmistry entertainment of Praetorius, Johann Praetorius [et al.] -- On human conception and generation, Jakob Rueff -- Monstra, G.W. Klinkenberg -- On the united Siamese twins -- Facts connected with James Carey, James Akin -- Symptoms in schizophrenia, James D. Page -- Clinical collection on dermatology and syphilology, Nikolai Porfir'evich Mansurov-- One hundred case histories of falcadina disease, Giuseppe Vallenzasca -- Inquiry into causes and effects of variolae vaccine, Edward Jenner -- Atlas of skin diseases, Ferdinand Hebra -- Stereoscopic skin clinic, Selden Irwin Rainforth -- Stereoscopic pictures for cross-eyed children, Carl Hubert Sattler -- Biomicroscopy of the eye, Milton Lionel Berliner -- Life and education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, Mary Swift Lamson -- Mayerle's lithographed international test chart, George Mayerle -- Experimental surgery drawings, William P. Didusch -- Atlas of colored plates, Elias Smith -- Mesmerism scrapbooks, Theodosius Purland -- Dental cartoons, Otto Elkan -- Dental hand silhouette gift album, W.H. Whitslar -- Marshall W. Nirenberg papers -- Mechanics of the human walking apparatus, Wilhelm Eduard Weber and Eduard Weber -- Man and sunlight, Hans Surén -- Rodney, Lucifer Guarnier -- Wonder in us, Hanns Günther -- Health and hygiene puzzle blocks, no. 10, Shanghai Toy Factory -- Huber and Tuber and Corky the killer, Harry A. Wilmer -- Chinese anti-TB flyers, National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of China -- Chinese public health slides -- Elementary hygiene for the tropics, Azel Ames -- Malaria pinup calendars, Frank Mack -- Commandments for health, Hugh Harman Productions -- St. Elizabeths Magic Lantern Slide Collection -- Disease Warning Sign Collection -- Easy to get, Army Pictorial Service -- Civil War surgical Card Collection -- Florence Nightingale Collection -- First aid on the battlefield, Johann Friedrich August von Esmarch -- Plastic reconstruction of the face -- Mess kit and Silver chev' -- Russo-Japanese War Photo Album -- Hitler as seen by his doctors, Military Intelligence Service Center -- Medical report of atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Imperial Army Medical College and First Tokyo Military Hospital -- Anti-germ warfare campaign posters, Second People's Cultural Institute -- Selected dictation of curious records, Ken Matsuzawa -- Catalogue of educational material, American Society for the Control of Cancer -- Materia medica animalia, Peter P. Good -- Book of receipts of all sorts, Elizabeth Strachey -- Medical Trade Card Collection -- Scope magazine, William Burton and Lester Beall -- Studies in the nervous system, Axel Key and Gustaf Retzius -- "Molecular structure of nucleic acids", James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick -- The X ray, William J. Morton -- The doctors: a satire in four seizures, Elbert Hubbard -- Dance of death, Jaques-Antony Chovin N2 - "With more than 17 million items, dating from the eleventh century to the present, the National Library of Medicine, founded 175 years ago, is the world's largest medical library-- America's home to a rich worldwide heritage of objects from rare early medical books to disturbing, precise nineteenth-century surgical illustrations to delightful mid-twentieth-century animated cartoons. Despite more than a century and a half of classification and cataloging, buried in the sheer mass of this collection are wondrous items largely unseen by the public and obscure even to librarians, curators, and historians. The individual objects brought to light in this book glow with beauty, grotesquery, wit and/or calamitous tragedy ... Each hidden treasure included in this volume has been specially selected and is accompanied by a brief essay by a distinguished scholar, artist, collector, journalist, or physician. Delivered from the obscurity of the library's massive archive, these marvels speak to us, charm us, repulse us, amaze us, inform us, and intrigue us-- and present a tantalizing glimpse of some of the precious and remarkable objects to be found within one of the world's great hidden treasures: the National Library of Medicine" -- book jacket ER -