An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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BESSON, Alain

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Thornton’s medical books, libraries and collectors. A study of bibliography and the book trade in relation to the medical sciences.

Aldershot, England: Gower, 1990.

A highly useful work, originally published by John L. Thornton (b. 1913) in 1949. This new edition includes the following fully-documented historical essays: P. Jones, Medical books before the invention of printing. D.E. Rhodes, Medical incunabula; Y. Hibbott, Medical books of the sixteenth century. C.R. English, Seventeenth century medical books, P.C. Want, Medical books from 1701-1800, G. Davenport, Medical books of the nineteenth century, L.T. Morton, The growth of medical periodical literature,; J. Symonds, Medical bibliographies and bibliographers, A. Besson, Private medical libraries, R.B. Tabor, Medical libraries of today.



Subjects: BIBLIOGRAPHY › History of Bibliography