Abstract
ONE of the most remarkable developments of exact learning in recent years is the growth of an interest in the history of medicine and science Which has shot up in the United States of America. It started almost from nothing, and with bibliographical resources wholly inadequate for detailed and accurate studies. The two Americans who stand out before all others in this movement are William Osier and Harvey Cushing—the former, it is true, of Canadian birth, but none the less an adopted and loyal son of the United States. Both must have been born with the love of books in the blood, and, having achieved eminent success in an opulent profession, they were able to impart a new and sustained impetus to the steady flow from Europe to America of the rarest and most expensive books in medicine and science.
A Bio-Bibliography of Andreas Vesalius
By Harvey Cushing. (Publication No. 6, Historical Library, Yale University Library.) Pp. xxxviii + 230 + 86 plates. (New York: Schuman's, 1943.) 15 dollars.
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COLE, F. A Bio-Bibliography of Andreas Vesalius. Nature 153, 694–695 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153694a0
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