Each of the three founders of the Medical Library interspersed writing historical articles with scientific output. All were especially fond of compiling bibliographies of historical figures and events. John Farquhar Fulton’s A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle (1932) remains the authoritative reference source for works of the famous 17th century natural philosopher and chemist and is cited whenever a Boyle edition is sold. Fulton also authored or co-authored bibliographies of early works on anesthesia, electrophysiologists Luigi Galvani and Giovanni Aldini, physiologists Richard Lower and John Mayow, chemist Joseph Priestley, and the poem Syphilis, and wrote Great medical bibliographers: a study in humanism (1951). The collections which formed the basis of these bibliographies were are in the Historical Library.

Bibliographies

Bibliography of Historical Articles on Yale Medicine

History of Science/Science Studies Reference Sources in the Yale University Library

Manuscript Collections of Yale Faculty in Medicine, Nursing and Public Health Held by Manuscripts & Archives