The Medical Heritage Library is pleased to announce a new content contributor.
The Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto is Canada’s pre-eminent academic health and science library. The Gerstein has extensive holdings dating back to the 18th century in medicine and related health sciences and serves students, researchers and faculty in the fields of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and related sciences.The Gerstein collection totals 1,031,144 physical items as of May 2011. The Gerstein has already comprehensively scanned its pre-1924 collection, both serials and monographs, and made them available through the Internet Archive. By joining the MHL as a content contributor, the Gerstein will be adding over 5,500 items to the project’s collection.
The inclusion of the Gerstein volumes in the MHL will add hundreds of new historical titles in general medicine, surgery, disease, pharmacy, health, anatomy, obstetrics, psychology, and hygiene among other topics. Titles include works by S. Weir Mitchell and the Royal College of Surgeons as well as journal publications such as the Canada Medical Journal and the Bulletin of the American Lung Association and publications on the spine and the value of spas.
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