Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

[LIB7612] The Library contains a large and unique collection of rare medical books, medical journals to 1920, pamphlets, prints, and photographs, as well as current works on the history of medicine. The library was founded in 1940 by the donations of the extensive collections of Harvey Cushing, John F. Fulton, and Arnold C. Klebs. Special strengths are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, and S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anesthesia, and smallpox inoculation and vaccination. The Library owns over 300 medical incunabula. [Website]

Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, NEW HAVEN CT

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Designed by architect James Gamble Rogers.

Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, NEW HAVEN CT

"The Sterling Memorial Library was erected at a cost of $6,000,000 in memory of John W. Sterling, eminent Yale graduate of the class of '64."

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