A Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Norwich and Norfolk United Medical Book-Society.

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UNRECORDED. Not in OCLC. The use of cut and pasted slips seems to have been intended to allow the library catalogue to be expanded as new titles were acquired, slips with books printed after 1826 have been pasted over older slips. A detailed catalogue of medical books available at Norwich and Norfolk United Medical Book Society formed in 1824. The Norfolk Chronicle noted in July 1824 that “the principal Medical Gentlemen of this city [Norwich]” had decided to join together two similar existing societies to “render more efficient the circulation of medical books, and the establishment of a permanent Medical Library in Norwich” (see Norfolk Chronicle 17th July 1824) This seemingly unique library catalogue produced just after the founding of the society may well have been in use in the reading room and contains (in manuscript) many books published and added to the library after the founding date. The catalogue contains an enormous selection of medical books on many different types of medicine and in various languages with the majority being published in the 18th or early 19th-century, although there are some 17th-century books too. The books range from specialized technical manuals through to popular medicine. There are also a few manuscripts in the catalogue. The catalogue also records the names of the donors of many of the books. Much of the collection is drawn from that of the library of Dr. John Manning (1730–1806), a physician in Norwich. Manning was trained at the Universi

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