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FISCHER, Emil (librarian)

FISCHER, Emil (librarian)

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1857 CE

#7470

Catalogue raisoneé of the medical library of the Pennsylvania Hospital.

Listing 10,500 items, the library of the Pennsylvania Hospital, founded in 1763, was undoubtedly the largest hospital library in the United States in 1857, and possibly the largest medical library in America. The firs…