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Rare Book Collections

Special Collections maintains an extensive collection of rare published and printed resources on many areas of health, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, and homeopathy, as well as early pharmacopoeias, texts on materia medica, and herbals.

The collections contain representative works of authors such as Mondino dei Luzzi, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Albrecht von Haller, Marcello Malpighi, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, and Samuel Hahnemann. Specific titles in Special Collections can be found in the Library Catalog.

Due to their unique and often fragile nature, rare books are available for access under supervised use and by appointment only.

Significant Collections



	Robert H. Ahrenfeldt Collection Forensic medicine, poisons, and toxicology Californiana Pre-20th century works dealing with the health sciences in California, published in the San Francisco Bay Area or by California authors Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific Library of James Ward, a noted homeopathic physician Ralph H. Kellogg Collection High-altitude physiology Chauncey D. Leake Collection History of anesthesiology Robert T. Legge Collection Early printed works spanning the Renaissance through the 18th century J.M.D. Olmsted Collection Works by Claude Bernard and the 19th century French School of Physiology Esther Rosencrantz Collection of Osleriana Material relating to Sir William Osler Margaret C. Schulze Collection Obstetrics and gynecology

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