Download or read book Thornton's Medical Books, Libraries, and Collectors written by John Leonard Thornton and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the standard work on the production, distribution and storage of medical literature from the earliest times. This third edition, edited by Alain Besson, is in keeping with the author's original intention and retains the basic structure of the first two editions. A new team of contributors have each provided chapters on their specialized subject to ensure a wide-ranging but detailed study. The opening chapter 'Medical Books before the Invention of Printing' now focuses on the production and transmission of medical manuscripts in the West, instead of giving a shallow treatment to the entire field of manuscript studies.