Talk:Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences

Further reading

Garrison-Morton (5th ed.) 6662 is indeed cryptic. It refers to entry number 6662 within the fifth edition of

Leslie Thomas Morton; Jeremy M Norman. Morton's medical bibliography : an annotated check-list of texts illustrating the history of medicine (Garrison-Morton) Aldershot, Hants, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Gower, (1991) OCLC 23355367

This is a standard reference work that would be in almost any good medical library. The G&M numbers even occasionally make their way into cataloguing data as in this example: OCLC 184746926

The "Garrison" in the title is Fielding Hudson Garrison, which see. Some perspective on that work is available from DOI 10.1046/j.1365-2532.1987.430130.x in which Norman announced that he would be taking on the future of the work from Morton who at that point was 80 years old. Norman observes that Morton's original 1943 edition credited Garrison on the title page for having created the model in:

Garrison FH Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, 2nd series, 1912, Vol. 17, pp. 89-178

That was later reworked as:

Garrison FH "A Revised Student's Checklist of Text Illustrating the History of Medicine". Bull. Hist. Med., (1933) Vol. 1 pp. 333-434

All that said, I don't have ready access to G-M 5th ed, so I have no idea to which seminal work no. 6662 refers. I hope someone can help out, perhaps at the reference desk. Cheers, User:LeadSongDog come howl 17:33, 15 April 2010 (UTC)