Presentation given at National Library of Wales conference on the History of Medicine in Wales, on Friday 22nd November 2019 #MedHistWales https://www.library.wales/fileadmin/fileadmin/docs_gwefan/gwybodaeth_i/datganiadau_wasg/2019/meddygaeth_amserlen.pdf

1. Exploring the History of Medicine
Within the Collections at Cardiff
University
Karen F. Pierce
Cataloguing Librarian, Cardiff University
Cynhadledd Hanes Meddygaeth yng Nghymru / History of Medicine in Wales Conference
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales
22/11/19

2. Introduction

3. Turner Collection
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/pharmacy-
pharmaceutical-sciences/about-
us/heritage/the-turner-collection

4. Mushin Anaesthesiology
Collection
Mushin Book
Collection
http://www.mushinmuseum.org.uk/

5. Other Collections

6. History of Medicine Collection:
History

7. History of Medicine: Cataloguing

8. History of Medicine: Culpeper
A physical directory: or A translation of the dispensatory made by the Colledge of Physitians of
London by Nicholas Culpeper (2nd ed.) 1650

9. History of Medicine:
Culpeper cont.

10. History of Medicine: “Monsters”

11. History of Medicine:
Fantastical “Monsters”

12. History of Medicine: Anatomy
Estienne, Charles (1546) La dissection des parties du corps humain. Paris: Simon de Colines

13. History of Medicine: Anatomy
Bartholin, Casper (1641) Institutiones anatomicae, novis recentiorum opininibus &
observationibus. Lug. Batavorum: Apud Franciscum Hackium

14. Human Genetics Historical Library: History
https://genmedhist.eshg.org/

15. HGHL: Library

16. HGHL: Collection Remit

17. HGHL: Items of Interest (1)
• Galton, Francis (1907) Inquiries
into human faculty and its
development (2nd ed.)
• Galton, Francis (1914) Hereditary
genius : an inquiry into its laws and
consequences (2nd ed.)
• Jones, Steve & Keynes, Milo (2007,
eds.) Twelve Galton lectures : a
centenary selection with
commentaries [1914-1982].
• Pearson, Karl (1914-30) The life,
letters and labours of Francis
Galton (3 vols.).
Francis Galton 1822-1911

18. HGHL: Items of Interest(2)
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko 1898 –1976
• The situation in biological
science: proceedings of the
Lenin Academy of Agricultural
Sciences of the U.S.S.R.,
session: July 31-August 7, 1948:
Verbatim report. Address by T.
D. Lysenko
• Soviet biology: a report by
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko to
the Lenin Academy of
Agricultural Sciences. (1948)

19. HGHL: Items of Interest (3)
• Koltsov – On the
structure of DNA and
related matters
Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov 1872–1940

20. HGHL: Language Variety

21. HGHL
Harper, P.S. & Pierce, K. (2010) The human genetics historical library: an international resource
for geneticists and historians. Clinical Genetics 77(3): 214-20

22. Conclusion
PierceKF@Cardiff.ac.uk @Darklecat