Heirs of Hippocrates Now Online We are pleased to announce that the book catalog, “Heirs of Hippocrates” last published in 1990 (3rd edition), is now available as an online database and offered to the public on the internet at no charge. “Heirs” is an annotated bibliography of the historic books in the John Martin RareContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room”

Extreme Makeovers From The Sixteenth Century Tagliacozzi, Gaspare (1545-1599). De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem, libri due. Venice, 1597. Although Tagliacozzi was not the first plastic surgeon (it had been practiced in India centuries earlier) he is usually credited as the first modern practitioner of the art. Loss of facial parts from dueling, street fights, andContinue reading “Notes from the John Martin Rare Book Room”