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Bibliography of Books and Articles Related to the Historical Library
This bibliography contains books and articles that describe or utilize unique items in the Historical Library's collections. It includes bio-bibliographies based on our collections or which have been extensively used in past collecting. Users are welcome to suggest additions.
Topics:
- General Information
- Cushing, Fulton, and Klebs and Their Collections
- Specific Bibliographies
- Edward C. Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures
- Other Artifacts
- Manuscripts
- Peter Parker Collection
- Clements C. Fry Print Collection
- Individual Prints from the Fry Print Collection
Blankfort, Joelle Ruth. “Madeline Earle Stanton and the Historical Library of the Yale Medical Library,” M.S. Thesis in Library Science, Southern Connecticut State College, 1976.
"Dedication ceremony of the Yale Medical Library, June 15, 1941," Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 13 (1940-41): 864-889.
Fulton, John F. “A Brief History of Yale’s Medical Collections,” Yale University Library Gazette 21(4) (Apr. 1947): 47- 53.
Fulton, John F. The Library of
Jonathan Knight, 1789-1864 Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 25(6) June 1953:
468-476
This collection is owned by the Historical Library.
Fulton, John F., Frederick G. Kilgour, and Madeline E. Stanton, Die Medizinische Bibliothek der Universität Yale,” Zeitschrift der Scweizerischen Bibliophilen Gesellschaft 2 (2) (1959): 87-102.
Fulton, John F., Frederick G. Kilgour and Madeline E. Stanton. Yale Medical Library: the formation and growth of its Historical Library. New Haven, 1962.
Gyorgyey, Ferenc. "Yale Medical Library receives Dr. Van's fabulous collection." Yale Medicine, 1979 Winter, 14(1): 14-17.
Kilgour, Frederick G. "The first century of medical books in Yale College Library," Yale University Library Gazette 35(3) (Jan. 1961): 101-105.
Kilgour, Frederick G. The Library of the Medical Institution of Yale College and its catalogue of 1865. New Haven: Yale Medical Library, 1960.
Madeline E. Stanton, edited by Leonard G. Wilson. New Haven: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1981. Reprinted from Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 36 (1981): 229-271.
The Making of a Library: Extracts from Letters, 1934-1941, of Harvey Cushing, Arnold C. Klebs, John F. Fulton, Presented to John Fulton by His Friends on His Sixtieth Birthday, 1 November 1959. New Haven: Yale University, 1959.
Merriman, Daniel. "George Milton Smith : An Appreciation of His Library," Yale
University Library Gazette 26(3) (Jan. 1952): 137-146.
This collection was
donated to the Historical Library.
Cushing, Fulton, and Klebs and Their Collections
Baumgartner, Leona. "Arnold Carl Klebs, 1870-1943," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 14 (1943): 201-216.
Baumgartner, Leona. "Arnold Klebs as Humanistic Scholar," Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 32 (1944): 85-95.
Baumgartner, Leona. "Harvey Cushing as Book Collector and Litterateur," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 8 (1940): 1055-1066.
Cushing, Harvey. “The Binding Influence of a Library on a Subdividing Medical Profession,” Address at the dedication of the William H. Welch Medical Library, Baltimore, Oct. 17, 1929, Science 70 (November 22, 1929): 485-91.
Cushing, Harvey. The Doctor and His Books. An Address at the Opening of the Allen Memorial Building of the Cleveland Medical Library Association, Nov. 13, 1926. Cleveland, Ohio [1926].
Cushing, Harvey."Ercole Lelli and His Ecorché," Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 9 (Jan. 1937): 199-213. The Lelli prints are in the Historical Library.
Cushing, Harvey. “The Value of Books to the Medical Profession,” Medical Journal and Record, 124 (Dec. 1, 1926): 712-13.
“Cushing’s Books at Yale,” Lancet 246 (May 6, 1944), p. 605.
Del Maestro, Roland F. “Il Fasciculo di Medicina of 1493: Medical Culture through the Eyes of the Artist,” Neurosurgery 58(1) (1906): 187-196. Includes information on our unique colored copy of this edition..
“A Doctor and His Books: Harvey Cushing and His Library,” Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1 (1946): 229-53, including E.P., Goldschmidt, “Recollections of Harvey Cushing and His Book-Collecting,” pp. 229-34; E. Weil, “The Formation of the Harvey Cushing Collection,” pp. 234-46; and Geoffrey Jefferson, “Harvey Cushing and His Books," pp. 246-53.
Fulton, John F. “The After-Dinner Address: Harvey Cushing and Arnold Klebs: Their Friendship and Their Libraries,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 21 (1947): 512-23.
Fulton, John F. “Arnold Carl Klebs (1870-1943),” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 15 (1943): 645-50.
Fulton, John F. “Dr. Harvey Cushing,” Yale University Library Gazette 14(3) (Jan. 1940): 33-40.
Fulton, John F. "Harvey Cushing and His Books: An Address Read Before the Anernethian Society on July 10th, 1947," St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal, 52 (1948): 61-64, 80-82.
Fulton, John F. "Harvey Cushing and Arnold Klebs: Their Friendship and Their Libraries," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 31 (1947): 512-523.
Fulton, John F. “The Letters and Libraries of Irving S. Cutter and Harvey Cushing,” Northwest University. Medical School. Quarterly Bulletin 20 (1946): 59-65.
Fulton, John F. "The Library of a Scholar: Arnold C. Klebs," Yale University Library Gazette, 22 (July 1947): 1-6.
Fulton, John F. "The Library of Arnold C. Klebs," Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 19 (May 1947): 883-886.
Fulton, John F. "On being a literary executor," Journal of Neurosurgery 4
(1947): 1-6.
[on being Harvey Cushing's literary executor]
The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts. New York: Schuman's, 1943.
Thomson, Elizabeth H. "Early Manifestations of Bibliomania in Three Collectors: Harvey Cushing, Arnold Klebs, and John Fulton,"Journal of the Albert Einstein Medical Center, 10 (July 1962): 98-107.
Specific bibliographies
Baumgartner, Leona and John F. Fulton. A bibliography of the poem "Syphilis/ sive, Morbis gallicus", by Girolomo Fracastoro, of Verona. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1935.
Beaumont, William. William Beaumont : a self portrait from letters in the Beaumont Collection, 1804-1835, edited by William Field. [S.l. : s.n., 1985]
These letters are in the Beaumont Medical Club Collection in the Historical Library.
"Bibliography of John Farquhar Fulton." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 17(1) (1962): 51-71.
"Bibliography of the Writings of Arnold C. Klebs." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 8(3) (March, 1940): 523-532.
Cushing, Harvey. A Bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius. New York: Schuman's,
1943.
The Library owns Cushing's collection of Vesalius. The Vesalius collection is
arranged according to this bibliography.
________. A Bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius. 2nd ed. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1962.
Ferguson, John. Hand list of editions of Polydore Vergil's De inventoribus
rerum. Compiled and arranged in a bibliography in manuscript by the late Professor
John Ferguson. With an Appendix on Anglica historia. New Haven: Historical Library,
Yale University School of Medicine, 1944.
The Library owns Ferguson's volumes of
Polydore Vergil (Vergilius).
Fulton, John F. A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal
Society. Oxford: University Press, 1932.
The Library owns Fulton's collection of
the works of Boyle. The Boyle collection is arranged according to this bibliography.
________. A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle, Fellow of the Royal Society. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961.
________. A bibliography of two Oxford physiologists; Richard Lower, 1631-1691; John Mayow, 1643-1679. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935.
The Library owns Fulton's holdings of Lower and Mayow.
_________ "A unique copy of the Fabrica of Vesalius'" [1943 edition] Journal of the History of Medicine and A;llied Sciences 8 (1953): 219-220.
Fulton, John F., and Harvey Cushing. "A bibliographical study of the Galvani and the Aldini writings on animal electricity." Annals of Science 1(3) (July, 1936): 239-268 plus 9 plates.
Fulton, John F., and Charlotte H. Peters. Works of Joseph Priestly, 1733-1804.
Preliminary short title list. New Haven: Laboratory of Physiology, Yale University
School of Medicine, 1937.
The Library owns Fulton's extensive collection of the works
of Joseph Priestley.
Fulton, John F. and Madeleine E. Stanton. "Bibliography of Galvani's writings on animal electricity," in Luigi Galvani, Commentary on the effects of electricity on muscular motion...together with a facsimile of Galvani's De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius (1791), and a bibliography of the editions and translations of Galvani's book... Norwalk, CT: Burndy Library, 1954, pp. 159-171.
________. The centennial of surgical anesthesia: an annotated catalogue of
books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia, exhibited at the
Yale Medical Library, October 1946. New York: Henry Schuman, 1946.
The Library
owns Fulton's anesthesia collection which, with additions, is organized according to this
bibliography.
Harvey Cushing Society. A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing: prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939. 3rd ed., rev. Park Ridge, IL: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1993.
Keynes, Geoffrey Langdon. A bibliography of the writings of William Harvey, M.D.,
discoverer of the circulation of the blood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1928.
The Historical Library's extensive Harvey collection is arranged according to
the Keynes bibliography.
________. A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey, 1578-1657. 3rd ed., revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1989.
________. Religio bibliographici. London: The Bibliographical Society,
1953.
The Historical Library's substantial collection of the works of Browne is
annotated with the Keynes bibliography numbers.
________. A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne. 2nd ed, rev. and augm. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
Edward C. Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures
Danforth, Ellen Zak. "Nesting Weights, Einsatzgewichte and Piles à Godet: A Catalog
of Nested Cup Weights in the Edward Clark Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures".Transactions
of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 50 (March 1988): 1-117. Hamden:
Published for the Connecticut Academy by Archon Books, 1988.
Kisch, Bruno. Scales and weights: a historical outline. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1965. Kisch was curator of the Streeter Collection which is used for
many examples in this book.
Fulton, John F. Edward Clark Streeter, 1874-1947: A biographical appreciation for
his friends and classmates including the text of his paper on Leoniceno. New Haven:
The Historical Library, Yale University School of Medicine, 1948.
Fulton, John F. "Edward Clark Streeter, 1874-1947," Yale Journal of Biology and
Medicine, 20(2) (December 1947): 203-211
Other artifacts
Janice Braun, Janice, “Two Rare Stāks: Considering Artifacts in the Library Collection, Journal of the History of Medicine and Alied Sciences, 46 (1991): 514-520. About the steak that Pavlov autographed and a hemlock stake in the collection. Kwan, Alistair, Julia F. Irwin, and Mary Ellen Leuver. "Surgical instruments as a window into the profession's past, " Yale Journal of Bology and Medicine, 81(4) (Dec. 2008): 205-208. Portrait Bust of Harvey Cushing: Ceremonies at the Unveiling, 15 January 1949.
New Haven: Historical Library, Yale University School of Medicine, 1949. Sizer, Theodore. "The cartouches in the Historical Library." Yale University Library
Gazette, 36(3), January 1962: 119-121. Gyorgyey, Ferenc. "Yale Medical Library receives Dr. Van's fabulous collection."
Yale Medicine, 1979 Winter, 14(1): 14-17. Corner, George W. .On early Salernitan surgery and especially the "Bamberg surgery" with an account of a
previously undescribed manuscript of the Bamberg surgery in the possession of Dr. Harvey Cushing,”
Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine, 5 (1937): 1-32. On Manuscript 10 by Roger Frugardi.
Corner, George W. “A Thirteenth Century Medical Cryptogram,” Bulletin of the Institute of the History of
Medicine, 4 (1936): 745-750. On Manuscript 10. Rzihacek-Bedö, Andrea. Medizinische Wissenschaftspflege in Benediktinerkloster
Admont. bis 1500. Vienna: R. Oldenbourg, 2005. Includes Manuscript 10.
Toresella, Sergio. "Gli erbari degli alchimisti," in Arte farmaceutica e plante medicinali: erbari, vasi, strumenti e testi dalle raccolte liguri, ed. Liana Saginati. Pisa: Pacini Editore, 1996, pp. 31-70. Discusses Manuscript 18, Pseudo Apuleis.
Litzler, Mary Frances (ed.) Edition and Study of a Middle English Herbal: New Haven, Medical Library 27 (ff 40r-49v). Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alcalá, Spain, 2005. On Manuscript 27.
The "Sekenesse of Wymmen" : A Middle English Treatise on Diseases in Women : (Yale Medical Library, MS. 47
fols. 60r-71v)," edited by M.-R. Hallaert. Brussels : Omirel, UFSAL, 1982. On Manuscript 47.
Green, Monica H. "Obstetrical and Gynecological Texts in Middle English," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992), 53-88; reprinted in Women's Healthcare, Essay IV. Manuscript 47: pp. 53, 60, 74, 77, 79. Green, Monica. "Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (1988-1989), 434-73; reprinted in Monica Green, Women's Healthcare in the Medieval West: Texts and Contexts, Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS680 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000), Essay I. Manuscript 47: pp. 68-71.
Peter Parker Collection and Lam Qua Portraits
Bartlett, C .J. “Peter Parker, the Founder of Modern Medical Missions: A Unique Collection of Paintings,”
Journal of the American Medical Association, 67 (April 5, 1916): 407-411.
Blake, Eugene M. "Yale's First Opthalmologist--The Reverend Peter Parker, M.D."
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1931, 3(5): 387-396.
Chang, James. "A reconstructive surgeon's taste in art: Dr. Peter Parker and the Lam Qua
oil paintings," Annals of Plastic Surgery, 30 (1993): 468-474. Connor, Patrick. “Lamqua, Western and Chinese Painter,” Art of Asia, 29
(March-April 1999): 46-64. Gilman, Sandor L. "Lam Qua and the development of a Westernized medical iconography in
China," Medical History, 20 (1986): 57-69. Gulick, Edward V. Peter Parker and the Opening of China. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1973. Hayot, Eric. Hypothetical mandarin : sympathy, China, and the fate of the modern human. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Chapter on Peter Parker. Harvey, Samuel C. “Peter Parker: Initiator of Modern Medicine in China,” Yale Journal of Biology and
Medicine, 8 (1936): 225-241. Heinrich, Larissa. "Handmaids to the Gospel: Lam Qua's Medical Portraiture," in
Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations, ed.
Lydia H. Liu. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999, pp. 239-275. Heinrich, Larissa. Afterlife of images : translating the pathological body between China and the
West. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. Hume, Edward H. "Peter Parker and the introduction of anesthesia into China."
Journal of the History of Medicine, 1 (1946): 670-674. Josyph, Peter. From Yale to Canton: The Transcultural Challenge of Lam Qua and
Peter Parker [Exhibition catalogue]. Smithtown, NY: Smithtown Township Arts Council,
1992. Rachman, Stephen. "Memento Morbi: Lam Qua's Paintings, Peter Parker's Patients,"
Literature and Medicine, 23 (2004): 134-159.
Rachman, Stephen.
"Curiosity and Cure: Peter Parker's patients, Lam Qua's portraits," Common-Place (online journal)
http://www.common-place.org 4(2) (January 2004)
Roland, Charles G. and Jack D. Key.
“Was Peter Parker a Competent Clinician?”
Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 53 (1978): 123-127.
Selzer, Richard. "The Grotesques of Lam Qua," and Peter Josyph, "The Missionary Doctor
and the Chinese Painter," MD 36(8) (Aug, 1992): 45-48, 51-52, 55-58.
Thomson, Elizabeth H. "Peter Parker: Physician - Missionary - Diplomat."
Yale Medicine, Summer 1979, 14(2): 2-5
This bust is
in the Historical Library Reading Room.
Manuscripts
Green, Monica and Linne Mooney, "The Sickness of Women" [edition of and commentary on a Middle English gynecological text], in Sex, Aging, and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: Trinity College Cambridge MS R.14.52, Its Texts, Language, and Scribe, ed. M. Teresa Tavormina. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006, pp. 455-568. Manuscript 47: pp. 456, n. 1; 458, n. 10; 482-83; ; Manuscript 19 (Gilbertus Anglicus), p. 456 n. 2.
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