Hidden Treasure

Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine (Sappol, Hidden Treasure) [Hardcover]

Author: Michael Sappol Arne Svenson Laura Lindgren | Language: English | ISBN: 092223342X | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine
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Founded 175 years ago, the National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest medical library, with more than 17 million items dating from the 11th century to the present in its holdings. Today it is home to a rich worldwide heritage of objects, from the rarest early medical books to delightful 20th-century ephemera, artifacts, and documentary and animated films. Despite more than a century and a half of classification and cataloging, buried in the sheer mass of this collection are wondrous items largely unseen by the public and obscure even to librarians, curators, and historians. The individual objects brought to light in this book glow with beauty — or grotesquery or wit or calamitous tragedy — and include spectacular large-scale, color-illustrated medical books; rare manuscripts; pamphlets and ephemera; “magic lantern” slides; toys; stereograph cards; scrapbooks; film stills; posters; and more from the 13th to the 20th century, from Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia. Specially selected and showcased in Hidden Treasure, they once again speak to us, charm us, repulse us, amaze us, inform us, and intrigue us.

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• Series: Sappol, Hidden Treasure
• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Blast Books; 1 edition (March 27, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 092223342X
• ISBN-13: 978-0922233427
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 10.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #586,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

227 well illustrated pages. A large variety of topics are covered in short segments of 2-4 pages. The pictures are mostly big and well reproduced. Although the images are from the National Library of Medicine, international topics are covered as well. For example,there are fascinating illustrations from 1829 of sufferers from the Alps with Falcadina Disease which produced rather grotesque lesions. But not everything is grotesque. There is lots of humor, unexpected by me. For example, when discussing some cartoony illustrations of dentists pulling out teeth, there is discussion of the publics distrust of dentists and mention of two shorts by the Three Stooges where they play dentists. This book is informative, fascinating, beautiful and fun to read (although the illustrations are what make the book so powerful). Highly recommended.

By D. Webb

The book is well-made and the images and descriptions are interesting, but it was not what expected for the billing of "Hidden Treasures." Maybe more "Interesting Medical Curiosities and Curios" would have been more apt.

By GG

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