From Hippocrates to Freud: Highlights from Columbia University’s Health Sciences Library

Special Guided Tour with Stephen E. Novak, head of archives and special collections
Date: Saturday, July 12th
Time: 3pm to 4.30pm
Admission: $15
Tickets here.
*** Offsite: Meeting Point at 3pm in the lobby of the Columbia University Medical Center’s Hammer Health Science Building, 701 West 168th St. at the corner of Fort Washington Ave, just one block west of the 168th Street station on the A, C, and 1 lines.  For detailed directions and a map see: http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/map

The archives & Special Collections at Columbia University’s Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library holds a trove of rare books and manuscripts dating from the Renaissance to the 21st century with particular strengths in anatomy and plastic surgery.

Among the treasures on display will be classic anatomical texts such as Vesalius’s landmark De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) and William Hunter’s gigantic atlas of the stages of pregnancy, The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus (1774); the first published book on plastic surgery (1597) with its step-by-step illustrations on how to perform a nose job; one of the earliest photograph albums created to document the results of surgery; letters of Florence Nightingale; books from the library of Sigmund Freud; and many other important or just curious items relating to the history of medicine.
Today, join us for a special guided tour of this wonderful collection with Stephen E. Novak, head of archives and special collections at the Columbia University Medical Center.

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