Thank you for your comment! Someone will be in touch regarding your photo.

I have inherited many documents and photos related to my father’s career. I am currently reviewing them, in order to add them to the archive of documents held in his name at the University of Montreal, where my father taught physiology and nuclear medicine until his retirement in 1979.

I have a photo of my father consulting with two other gentlemen, I assume during a meeting of the Society of Nuclear medicine. My father is quite young, so I believe it was in the Society’s early days. I am reaching out to you in the hope that you can help me identify the other gentlemen in the photo, or if not, if not, where could I find the answer my question.
I am unable to attach the photo here, but can do so if I receive a response at he email listed below.

Thank you.

Aline Sternberg Petzold
St. Paul MN USA

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Thank you! So glad to hear about your connection to this collection.

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Thanks for reading and sharing this account of the funeral.

This is a wonderful article. A couple of years ago I was commissioned to do a 4ftX4ft, acrylic on canvas painting version of the image “Dr. Leonidas H. Berry with residents and postgraduate students, 1970”. Find it on my TwitterX page, twitter.com/sinceregrace. Keep sharing good history and in like this! Thank you

Thank you for reading, and thank you for your comment. Your points about “unaddressed” incarcerated populations highlight the importance of recognizing that people in jails and prisons have multi-faceted identities. A variety of characteristics – for example, demographic background, social and political beliefs, and health status – can make some individuals particularly vulnerable to criminalization and deeply impact how they are treated in carceral institutions and systems.

slippery slope here. did mudd become assessory after the fact by concealing booth’s presence? depends on time frame. tried in 1865 or 2023? a jury probably convicts in either case—-GUARDHOUSE LAWYER.

Joanna

Sure, you can learn more here: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/WHO-picturing-health/OB12942-sm.html?imgid=4

Thank you for this question! The NLM Profiles in Science site “The 1964 Report on Smoking and Health” Story section points to the following related resources, including a few portraits at https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/nn/catalog?f%5Bexhibit_tags%5D%5B%5D=smoking

Additionally, you can find nearly 200 still images in NLM Digital Collections related to the Office of the Surgeon General from 1950-1999 at the following link https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/?f%5Bdrep2.format%5D%5B%5D=&f%5Bdrep2.format%5D%5B%5D=Still+image&f%5Bexample_query_facet_field%5D%5B%5D=years_1950&page=3&q=Surgeon+General+&search_field=all_fields

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Thanks for reading and sharing about your interest and experience.

Thank you for sharing this information about your family.
The article has been corrected.

He was my dad

Thank you for your thoughtful comment. NIDA is the lead federal agency supporting scientific research on drug use and addiction and an excellent resource for questions related to addiction.

Thank you for sharing that connection.

Paul Naffah, a legendary Chicago cardiovascular was also a native of Lebanon

Thanks very much for your comment on this post. Your question prompted us to look more closely at the text and revise it for greater accuracy. The author’s statement that disease caused more casualties than combat in northern Africa during WWII is misleading, as it suggests that Allied troops were the casualties. The Naval Medical Research Unit 3 had its start in 1942 as a U. S. Typhus Commission research facility. Typhus (another arbovirus disease) was a huge problem in North Africa during 1942-43, but mostly for civilians; U. S. troops sent to Europe, Asia, or Africa were all vaccinated with one of the early typhus vaccines, which protected many of them. We don’t have figures for civilian deaths due to military action during this time, but typhus took a serious toll: in Algeria during 1942, for example, there were about 200,000 typhus cases and 50-60,000 deaths, according to one Rockefeller Foundation correspondent. The Typhus Commission and military medical departments, together with local health departments and relief organizations, got typhus under control, and prevented what could have been epidemic levels of disease, by vaccinating, and by dusting civilians, fully clothed, with the army’s standard louse powder, and later with a new insecticide, DDT. (See section 4 of NLM’s Fred Soper Profiles in Science site for details!)

That’s great that the article was helpful. Thanks for your comment and good luck with your research!

Thanks for reading, and for sharing a part of your father’s history.

Thank you for sharing your history. While this post is specifically about the film, and the events of the 1930s it documents, the graduate school Mary Breckenridge founded evolved into Frontier Nursing University, still operating in Kentucky today.

Thanks for reading!

So glad you found it helpful!

Thank you for your service and for your comment.
The official US Army medical history of the Vietnam War is called Vietnam Studies – Medical Support, 1965-1970 by MG Spurgeon Neel. It is available as a free download from the US Army Center for Military History (CMH Pub 90-16) at https://history.army.mil/html/books/090/90-16/CMH_Pub_90-16.pdf. According to that publication and other sources, there was never a 21st Evac Hospital in Vietnam. In 1970 there were two hospitals in the Chu Lai area, the 91st Evacuation Hospital and the 27th Surgical Hospital. In 1968-69 the 312th Evacuation Hospital was in Chu Lai, and a rocket attack on this hospital killed nurse Sharon Lane on 8 June 1969. 1LT Lane was the only nurse killed by hostile fire during the Vietnam War (seven others died in aircraft crashes, and two died of illness). One other soldier was killed and 27 were injured in the rocket attack. The 312th Evac Hospital returned to the United States later in 1969, and the 91st took over support for Chu Lai.

Hi Deb,
My name is John Burns and I worked with Doug in the OR. His bunk was about 4 bunks down from me in our barracks.. As I recall, Doug was a marine biologist? A smart, pleasant good surgical assistant. I’m sorry to hear he has passed away.

I know I always on black cats

Thank for your comment. You’re right, not all postcards carry greetings from pleasure trips.
Postcards were inexpensive to use and were popular collecting items in the early twentieth century often featuring major landmarks or important people. Check out our exhibition Pictures of Nursing for an exploration of postcards with images of nurses and the nursing profession from around the world, produced between 1893 and 2011 with many examples coming from the ‘Golden Age’ of postcards—roughly 1907 to 1920. Pictures of Nursing provides a way to understand the types of images that are represented in the collection of 2,588 postcards the National Library of Medicine acquired from American nurse and collector Michael Zwerdling, RN.

Hi Catherine,
Thank you so much for your message. This is indeed amazing and we would love it if you could compare the handwriting in this album to your album. It’s incredible that you located your grandfather and that you have the same photographs. For a long time we have been trying to figure out who created this album and it would be so wonderful to finally know! Are you able to see the handwriting well enough in these pictures? Please let us know. We have the pages digitized so I can send you others if it helps. Thank you and can’t wait to hear back!

Thank you for reading! While we can’t say for sure without further research, it is certainly possible that Eleazar Albin was the colorist of this copy of A Natural History of English Insects (1720). The colors align with his descriptions in the text and are similar to other copies that he hand-colored using watercolors at the purchaser’s request. Our copy has not yet been scanned, but the National Agricultural Library has digitized and made the full book available via the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/CAT10623132/page/n94/mode/2up. Albin’s daughter, Elizabeth, was not involved in this book but did take part in the etching and hand-coloring of his later work A Natural History of Birds (1731-1738): https://library.si.edu/digital-library/author/albin-eleazar.

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I just heard of Dr. Mudd, while watching an episode of Laramie.

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Thank you for sharing your personal and professional connections to this history.

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I have a friend who’s husband talked the talk. In the 60’s he had her admitted to an insane asylum and they performed shock treatment on her. Today she’s all messed up. They gave her a lot of drugs and she got hooked on them. Today, they took those perscribed drugs away from her and messed her up more. Hee ex hubby is still running loose abusing women talking the talk, it’s not him it’s their fault. It’s so sad to see a man who abuses women get away with doing it for a lifetime. It’s not right. My friend came from a wealthy family. But they thought she was crazy too. Today she is crazy. She stutters, she shakes, she cannot make decisions. Abuse did this to her. Society didn’t believe her. I feel sorry for her.

Hello,
I am Vo Ngoc Than,
I was the wounded Vietnamese boy (12 year old) in 1969.
I was cared for by you (the doctors / nurses) in Chu lai from Oct 1969 – Feb 1970,
Maybe that was the ward 3 (civilian ward) of 91st Evac hospital (Chu lai –Viet nam),
I still think of all of you, the ones who saved my life.
Thank you very much,
I do hope to have chance to get more information on you,
Regards,

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Raul, where did you work at the 91st. I worked in the ICU December 1969 to July 1070.

Thanks for reading Circulating Now. Happy New Year!

Thank you for reading!

you both are SICK POS … i don’t care if he cured all diseases & conditons what he did to children cancels him morally to EVIL

We couldn’t agree more.
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Of course! We encourage sharing of our blog posts.

Such original work! Maria’s talent and imagination appears to have no limit. This artist has redefined our image of the book as art form.
An extraordinary display of which the Art World should take more notice.

Thank you for your comment and sharing about your great-great-grandfather.

On the note of horses, I cannot say specifically whether older or less fit horses were detailed to the ambulance corps, as I never came across any comments on the state of the horses (which may have meant they were adequate since I read a lot of complaints about the condition of the ambulanes themselves!).

Yes, the speed at which medical supplies were transported was slow and ambulances and medicines were ‘following the rear’. Eli being sent to collect supplies personally would not have been unusual. The head medical officer for an Ambulance Corps detachment was responsible for ordering and collecting his own provisions, and ambulance-men and their ambulanes would be used to collect them.

Thanks again for your input, and I hope this helps you understand a little more about what Eli would have been involved in.

Hi Jim I boarded your ship at Vung Roe Bay and welcomed all of you to Vietnam. Those 1st 90 days at Tuy Hoa was an experience none of us will never forget.

A second related story is that, while still in the 125th Illinois, records state he spent time assisting in the care of casualties. The following is also found for January 5, 1863, at Bowling Green, KY. Joel D. Morse, Acting Surgeon of the 1st Brigade, 7th Division, sent a letter to the Brigade Commander, Colonel D. McCook, recommending that Eli be sent to Louisville, Kentucky, to bring up the brigade’s medical supplies which had been left there with the Medical Purveyor. The recommendation states, “Mr. Hewitt is recommended as a trusty energetic man, acquainted with business matters, and is at present a convalescent, unfit for active duty as a soldier.” The order was eventually issued even though it was forwarded one additional level for approval. Such is an indication that medical supplies did not travel at anywhere near the speed of the troops.

Your input is greatly appreciated.

~V Wood

Hi. I own 10 prints from the same series including this one. Can you tell me more about them?

Wow that is wonderful you have a great connection with him. He was very talented!

Thanks for sharing your experience with Walking Out on the Boys.
We hope you enjoy the NLM History Talk on Thursday.

Linda, thank you for sharing your family’s story. It’s nice to know that some of your great-great uncle’s work is preserved at the National Library of Medicine. Good luck with your book!

Thank you for your comment. You are correct. The post has been updated.

An old house is a lovely piece of history! Thanks for your question. Our staff worked with the NIH Department of Occupational Health and Safety (DOHS) for guidance and testing regarding employee exposure when working with these materials. Here are a few resources that may help you find the answer you’re looking for:

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New Hampshire Arsenic Consortium at Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program
Arsenic Information from the New Hampshire Environmental Protection Agency

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You’re certainly not the only one! I’ve been working at NLM in HMD since I started as an intern in the summer of 2015, and I don’t recall ever hearing about Fletcher or paying much attention to the carving either. John Shaw Billings was always the name I was told to remember, yet Fletcher stayed at the library for longer. It was eye-opening to learn about him and his contributions! Thank you for reading.

Thanks so much for your comment. We are very happy to hear that you enjoy seeing the posters in our historical collection. Enjoy your summer and stay safe!

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Thank you for sharing your father’s extraordinary story.
We can’t guess what the chance would be that they were shipmates. However, as next of kin you can request your father’s service records from NARA via https://www.archives.gov/veterans. Those records would show tours of duty and perhaps the vessel name.

My father James Hendrix Kyzer was also a pharmacist mate 1st class on a hospital ship in the South Pacific. He had a picture of s sailor with a scar where he and other Pharmacist First Mates removed a sailor’s appendix using an illustrated medical book because the doctors were saving lives from battlefield injuries, I don’t know what ship he served on but they were truly ordinary people doing extraordinary things! What would be the chance that they served together?

Good luck with your presentation!

The printed index isn’t scanned due to copyright. The collection’s finding aid is at https://oculus.nlm.nih.gov/ama556

Perhaps this publication would be helpful: Directory of deceased American physicians, 1804-1929 : a genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association’s Deceased physician masterfile

I figured out what entries such as “O.6, 35-36” mean. O is Ohio, and 6 is the code number used by the AMA to identify a medical school attended in that state, in the year 1935-1936. The numbers are listed in AMA publications I found online. Look for “American Medical Directory.” Vol. 1 was in 1906. The latest that I accessed was dated 1921, but I imagine there were later versions.

Thanks for your question. AMA cards use the following categories:
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Thank you for the prompt reply.

Hello Jackie–Glad you enjoyed the post. Several of the images above are from the book Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service, by Mary Breckinridge. Lexington KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1981. I think you’d need to contact the publisher about the permissions process for those. The manuscript item, Midwifery in the Kentucky mountains: an investigation, is not under copyright, as it was published in 1923 or 1924. You could link to that or include individual pages if you wanted to. The other images are screen captures from the film itself. We believe the film is in the public domain, but are not able to guarantee it. It appears it was published without a copyright notice, which was required under US copyright law at that time. Find more information about copyright on our website.

Thanks for reading!

You do know that Churchill was making fun of those people, right?

Thank you for your answer. Yes, skills change with the technology, but they don’t simply replace older skills. They are an additional layer of knowledge. I’m in favour of keeping the old card catalogs, especially in libraries with historical heritage. They are an archive (I am an archivist and historian…but not nostalgic). Of course, serendipity is also present in online catalogs, but the discoveries are different.

NLM carefully reviewed its cards before the big recon thirty-plus years ago, and some cards were kept. The current review is also a question of many eyes and hands, and some cards will remain. Serendipity (of a different kind) still exists with an online catalogue – – – one can browse a subject heading while limiting by date, for example. The skills change with the technology.

I could not write proper Palmer if my life depended upon. We could have a whole other thread about penmanship, and how cursive writing is (and isn’t) being taught today.

Bibliographic instruction will never quite go away. Thanks!

Agreed: a bad record is a bad record, whether it’s a card or online. Moreover, some of the shelving information created during the Old Red Brick building days is still in use today, which is why we have to check the cards against the online catalogue, to make sure that we are not discarding that the only remaining record of that information. But with a properly done online record (done by a real live trained librarian), there are a far greater possibilities for searching.

Wendy, thanks for your comment. This post is based on an archival collection of Dr. Berry’s papers held here at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. We’ve digitized a selection of these materials which you can see in the Digital Gallery for our exhibition For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform. There are several more posts here on Circulating Now as well. You’re welcome to Visit NLM and see Dr. Barry’s papers for yourself!

P.S-thank you very much!

-Wendy

I do need to correct one claim, however. “But with modern online catalogues, it really doesn’t matter. ANY search will take you to the full record.” Only if someone has entered the information in the first place, either as a secondary entry in the bibliographic record or (preferably) as a cross-reference in the authority file that is linked to the bibliographic file. In other words, it is just as accurate to say that “catalogs are only searchable using the strategies already put in place when the bibliographic files were created.” Some human being — some librarian — has to analyze the item and create the records and establish the links among the files.

Yes, great memories.

That’s why we still need librarians!

There is such a thing as research comfort food.

I’m with Winston Churchill on not ending sentences with prepositions: “This is the type of errant pedantry up with which I will not put.”

Thank you!

Dr Safiatou SEKOU DORO

Hi Pamela,

It’s so great to hear from you, thank you for this! I would love to connect with you to discuss this further. I look forward to talking to you!

Best,
Aliya Rahman

Yes, the New Jersey people were all friends and family of my great grandparents.

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Thank you for pointing that out. Quite right. The correction has been made.

Thanks for sharing your father’s story.

Interesting observation. Thanks for your comment.

Thanks for Reading!
I hope you stayed tuned to catch today’s post Seeking Leek Island: A Personal Journey, which uncovered the identity of the scrapbook’s owner.

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Thanks for asking!
The caption for that image, which is NLM #101437242, is “A Sudanese schoolboy learning to administer medicine from a WHO-supported trachoma control team, photograph by Didier Henrioud, 1976, Courtesy National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health”
See our recent announcement for more information and images and stay tuned for additional posts in the coming months about this image collection from our curator of Prints and Photographs.

Thanks for sharing your grandfather’s story.

Thanks for asking! Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions explores the factors that have shaped the changing definitions of some of our most potent drugs, from medical miracle to social menace. Learn more about NLM’s exhibition Pick Your Poison.

Now it is my turn to apologize! I have come to the exact same conclusion. Would you be interested in exchanging some further thoughts and resources? You can reach me here at the museum through my e-mail: Kyle.Dalton@CivilWarMed.org.

Thanks for your contribution to Grateful Med and its important role in expanding user access. And thanks for reading.

Thanks so much for your comment. And for pointing out the typo. I’ll let the author know so she can make the correction.

P.S. I noticed and odd word on your pie chart: “denisty”. Would this be “density”?

Thank you for your comment and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I agree that the Lieber Code was rather vague and there was no formal recognition of the ambulance-men as non-combatants. Thank you for sharing the case of the Confederate prisoner.

In my own research, I have come across many cases of stretcher-bearers being taken prisoner that go against both the Lieber Code’s recommendations on the treatment of medical staff and the Winchester Accords. Interestingly, according to General Orders Number 147 – Section 14, ambulance-men were meant to be armed with revolvers, arming them perhaps inhibiting them from adopting a non-combatant identity. However, in reading both diaries and officers’ reports, I have not come across any evidence that stretcher-bearers ever used their revolvers, or that they even carried or possessed one in the first place. One conclusion I drew from this, and other evidence, was that by acting like non-combatants, they were treated as such. Thus, Union ambulance-men adopted a collective identity that straddled the roles of both a soldier and a humanitarian.

Thank you for your comment and apologies for the delay in getting back to you; I have been away touring France. I agree that it will have been challenging logistically for military officers to have kept tabs on the entire army and the medical department’s matters. However, my idea that the officers’ attitude may have erred more towards indifference or antagonism comes from the work of Civil War medical historian Scott McGaugh and my supposition that the Ambulance Corps was too large in size to be ignored easily. McGaugh says that there were 1000 ambulances at Gettysburg (1 per 100 men) and, with three men attached to each ambulance, there will have been 3000 ambulance-men in total (around 3% of the Union Army’s strength). But again, as you have said, due to its size, it will have been a great challenge to have organised effectively by today’s standards.

I also agree that this is an area with potential for further exciting research into early humanitarianism and ‘rules of war’. Additionally, some of what I have written in my response to Kyle Dalton below (and his original comment) may be relevant to this discussion.

Here at the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, I have been conducting just such research into the links between the ambulance corps and humanitarianism.

Beginning in 1863, the US Army followed the Lieber Code, but the Confederacy had no universally administered equivalent. The articles of the Lieber Code were sometimes too broad to be applied humanely, and not universally enforced throughout Union forces.The US was not a signatory to the first Geneva Convention, and the Confederacy (as an unrecognized state) was not invited.

More importantly for the study of the Ambulance Corps (and the Confederate equivalents), stretcher bearers do not appear to have been considered non-combatants. Targeting them was considered socially disgraceful, but there were no official repercussions that I have yet discovered. Anecdotally, in the case of a Confederate guerrilla captured after intentionally wounding a Union stretcher bearer and surrendering, there is no record of any consequences official or unofficial. The private was even exchanged back to the Confederacy in 1864.

This all goes to your latter point that the lines were still being drawn. It was indeed a varied world full of mass casualty events and war crimes, and the protection of soldiers employed as stretcher bearers does not appear to have yet been a high priority.

An excellent observation; we should not forget the second part of the requirement to “safely return him to earth”. Things might have turned out very differently: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6922351
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I’m so sorry to hear that. I know how you feel. I’m sure your kitty knew how much you loved him.

One of the most playful and loving cats I have ever had was a black cat. I have recently lost him, and miss him terribly.

That’s a great story, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for your comment. A good suggestion, we’ll look into it.

That is a very interesting topic. Perhaps you my find the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus page on Occupational Health interesting. Thanks for reading Circulating Now!

You’re welcome! Thanks for reading.

Cheers! Thanks for reading.

Thanks so much!

You’re welcome! Thanks very much for your kind words.

Welcome to the blog! We hope you enjoy the posts, especially those about NLM’s incunabula collection. Thank you for the information about Hans Hochspringer. Just imagine what else Durling could have accomplished with access to today’s technology!

Thanks for your question. This is a well researched early medical book, Fasciculus Medicinae, with Latin text in addition to the illustrations. You can learn more about the book this illustration comes from here: https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2018/10/11/fifteenth-century-books-from-the-cradle-of-printing-in-the-west/.

Thanks for your comment and correction, indeed we had it wrong.
This is the 1945 class photo:
The image in the post has been replaced with the correct file.

This picture is miscaptioned, Mark Ravitch is not in this pictures he was intern-resident in the 1941-1942 class and is in that picture easily found elsewhere. Denton Cooley was quite tall and I believe he also is miscaptioned but less sure about that.

did you ever find out? I just found sevral of these from the same painter, in good shape.

Thanks for letting us know.

We couldn’t agree more! Thanks for reading.

I was exactly the same he talked them round and they left thinking it was my fault although I was sitting with a black eye

I was abused and battered for 5 years and because my husband was in a high profile job and could talk the talk every time the police came they did nothing to help me. Talking about 10 years ago know I’m away from him but can’t have a relationship every again. They failed me

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Thank you for this fascinating post!

When I shared the post with the medieval medicine listserve, Thomas Gloning, a historian of medieval/Renaissance medicine at the University of Giessen, immediately supplied the meaning of the manuscript annotation in your illustration (p14/24 of the NLM pdf https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/dw/101563011/PDF/101563011.pdf).

Gloning writes:
My reading is:
“Von aderleßen” (plural)
or
“Von aderlaßen” (singular), but rather “aderleßen”.
Translation: On bloodlettings.
The text on the right contains rules of bloodletting. So the entry is
a case of a topic marker in margine.
The language is Early New High German.

I would add that the particular passage with the topic marker deals with the best time to be bled: during the new moon if you are young…

With continuing thanks for all the work NLM librarians are doing to digitize these treasures!

Karen Reeds
Princeton Research Forum, a community of independent scholars: http://www.princetonresearchforum.org/
Reeds, Karen, “Searching beyond the Medical Heritage Library: An Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Winter 2015, Vol. 89 Issue 4, p793-795. [A digital humanities review of Dana Sutton, An Analytic Bibliography of On-Line Neo-Latin Texts:
http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/bibliography/ ]

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