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From Hippocrates to Gray's Anatomy:
Highlights from Archives & Special Collections,
Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University

Kempner Exhibition Gallery, Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Butler Library, 6th Floor East
May 4 - July 28, 2001
Monday, 12:00pm - 4:45pm;
Tuesday - Friday, 9:00am - 4:45pm

Over five centuries of landmarks in the history of the health sciences
are currently on display in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library's
Kempner Exhibition Gallery in Butler Library. Works of Hippocrates,
William Harvey, Florence Nightingale, and Sigmund Freud are just a few
of the over one hundred items that can be seen. All are from the
holdings of Archives & Special Collections at Columbia's Augustus C.
Long Health Sciences Library and most have never before been exhibited
on the Morningside Campus.

Among the items on display are two pages from Freud's manuscript for his
1913 work, Totem und Tabu; several letters of Florence Nightingale; two
copies of Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543), which
revolutionized the study of anatomy; Harvey's De Motu Cordis, the book
in which he explained the circulation of the blood; Michael Maier's
beautiful alchemical emblem book, Atalanta Fugiens (1618); and the first
illustration of bacteria from Anton Leeuwenhoek's microscopic
investigations (1695).  Early natural history books, classics in the
history of dentistry and anesthesiology, and early editions of
Hippocrates and Galen can also be seen.

The show highlights Archives & Special Collections' strengths in
anatomy, physiology, plastic surgery, and anesthesiology.  It also
includes material from the department's Auchincloss Florence Nightingale
Collection and from its Freud Library, both of which are on long-term
deposit with the department.  Included are rare books, manuscripts,
photographs, and prints.

The Health Sciences Library acquired its first rare book collection with
the purchase of Professor John G. Curtis's library in the history of
physiology in 1914.  It later added the extensive anatomical library of
Professor George Sumner Huntington in the 1920s.  In 1974 the Jerome P.
Webster Library of Plastic Surgery, perhaps the most comprehensive
library in the world on the history of plastic and reconstructive
surgery, was bequeathed to Columbia by Webster. Dr. Allen I. Hyman,
Professor of anesthesiology and former chairman of the department,
established the Lena and Louis Hyman Collection in the History of
Anesthesiology in 1982.  Archives & Special Collections, formally
established as a library department in 1983, now has approximately
15,000 titles in the history of the health sciences dating from the 15th
into the 20th century, a large collection of personal papers and the
archives of the University's schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing,
and public health.

The Auchincloss Florence Nightingale, on long-term loan from New
York-Presbyterian Hospital, is also housed at the Health Sciences
Library.  The collection was established by Dr. Hugh Auchincloss
(1878-1947) in 1932 and includes almost 250 letters by Nightingale,
first editions of many of her works on nursing and public health, and
prints, photos, and artifacts relating to both Nightingale and the
history of nursing.

In addition, part of the library of Sigmund Freud can be found in the
Health Sciences Library.  The Freud Library includes over 750 books and
reprints on neurology, psychiatry, sexuality, hysteria, hypnotism, many
which include marginal notes by Freud or inscriptions to him.  The
library is on deposit from the New York State Psychiatric Institute,
located on the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center campus.

The exhibit runs May 4 through July 28, 2001 and can be viewed in the
Rare Book and Manuscript Library's Kempner Gallery on 6th Floor East,
Butler Library, Monday, 12:00pm - 4:45pm; Tuesday - Friday, 9:00am -
4:45pm

For further information contact Stephen Novak(212)305-7931/
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Stephen E. Novak
Head, Archives & Special Collections
A.C. Long Health Sciences Library
Columbia University
701 West 168th St.
New York, NY  10032
(212) 305-7931
FAX: (212) 305-6097
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