NLM “Turning The Pages” Adds Richly Illustrated Japanese Manuscript, Hanaoka Seishu’s Influential Surgical Casebook
The National Library of Medicine has announced the addition of Hanaoka Seishu’s Surgical Casebook (http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/hanaoka/hanaoka.html) to its growing collection of virtual books and manuscripts available for thumbing through online via Turning the Pages (http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/intro.htm). The virtual volume is also available on kiosks in the Library’s Visitor Center and the History of Medicine Division Reading Room and marks the continued collaboration of the Library’s Lister Hill Center and the History of Medicine Division. More information about the author and the manuscript can be found at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/ttp_surgcasebk.html.
