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The 1846 Catalogue of the Halifax Garrison Medical Library

Author(s) -

A. E. Marble

Publication year - 1995

Publication title -

canadian journal of health history

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 2371-0179

pISSN - 0823-2105

DOI - 10.3138/cbmh.12.2.441

Subject(s) - medical library , nova scotia , national library , library science , history , medicine , computer science , ethnology

While carrying out research in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia several years ago, I discovered A Catalogue of the Halifax Garrison Medical Library, dated 1846. I had believed that the only medical libraries in Halifax prior to 1868 were the personal libraries of the physicians and surgeons practising there. The existence of the Garrison Medical Library therefore altered my opinion about the availability of medical literature since this library was both extensive and current in its holdings. Furthermore, the cover page of the 1846 catalogue indicates that the library had been established 30 years earlier, in 1817.

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