Historic & Rare

Historic & Rare

The Matas Library Historic Collections include important historic medical monographs and a number of rare atlases, a few recently bound and restored by William Kitchens.  An example of one rare, restored and scanned atlas is the:

Essai d'anatomie, en tableaux imprimés qui representent au naturel tous les muscles : de la face, du col, de la tête, de la langue, du larinxe, d'après les parties disséquées & préparées par monsieur Duverney. (Garrison-Morton (5th ed.) 398) Remarkable for striking mezzotints printed in colour.
 

The atlases and rare books are in an closed stacks area.  These titles are not generally available in the online catalog, but must be accessed by using the old card catalog.   Several classifications are used for the historic materials including the Dewey Decimal Classification and an early version of the NLM Classification system developed by Mary Louise Marshall, called "Reclassed."  Please consult with the Matas Librarians.  Prior appointment is required for access to the Historic and Rare materials.

Another historic collection of note is: The Faust Collection : Historic Parasitology and Tropical Medicine (1628-1910) : Selected Works from the Library of Ernest Carroll Faust. A list of the titles included in the collection is available.

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