Arnold Carl Klebs, 1870–1943: Tuberculosis Specialist, Historian and Bibliophile, and a Founder of the Medical Historical Library

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  New Year card drawn by Arnold Klebs and sent to his daughter, Sarah

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  Harriet Klebs in the Library at Les Terrasses

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  Photographic portrait of Dr. Harvey Cushing on the Axenstrasse, along the rocky shores of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland

  Inscribed to "Richard U. Light via A.C.K. [Klebs] from Harvey Cushing."
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  Title page of A Catalogue of Early Herbals Mostly From the Well-Known Library of Dr. Karl Becher,...with an introduction by Dr. Arnold C. Klebs.

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  Pages from Gaerde der suntheit (the Low German version of Gart der Gesundheit, or Garden of Health), with hand-colored illustrations

  The text includes 519 hand-colored woodcuts of plants, animals, and medical scenes.
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  Pages from “Herbals of the Fifteenth Century. (Incunabula Lists I),” reprint from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 11(3-4) (1917) and12 (1-2) (1917).

  Arnold Klebs’ earliest bibliographical work on herbals
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  Title page of Promptuarium. Wie zur Zeit der Pestilentz ein jeder Gesunder und Krancker, jungk oder alt ... sich mit allem praeseruiren und curirn sol...

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  Karl Sudhoff and Arnold Klebs with dog on the balcony of Les Terrasses

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  Arnold Klebs at a meeting of medical historians at Bad Homburg

  Arnold Klebs is by the bushes on the left, second row in.
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  Title page from Die ersten gedruckten Pestschriften [The First Printed Plague Tracts]

  Arnold Klebs’ history of plague literature and a bibliographical description of 130 incunabula on the plague.
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  Title page from Remedies Against the Plague: The Earliest French Tracts Printed in the Fifteenth Century: Facsimiles, Notes, and List of All the Incunabula on Plague

  This work contains facsimile reproductions of five French incunabula plague tracts along with Arnold Klebs’ bibliography of early plague tracts.
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  Page of Klebs article, “The Practica of Gianmatteo Ferrari da Gradi, Edito Princeps,” in Essays on the History of Medicine, Presented to Karl Sudhoff on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday, November 26th, 1923

  Article by Arnold Klebs on Ferrari da Gradi’s Practica
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  Photograph of Arnold Klebs' drawing of Karl Sudhoff

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  Title page of Reasons against the inoculation of the small-pox. In a letter to Dr. Jurin. Being a full answer to every thing which Mr. Maitland and others have advanced upon that subject. With a particular account of the late Miss Rolt’s case, as attested under the hand of the honourable Mrs. Rolt, her mother ...

  From the collection of Arnold Klebs
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  Title page from An account of the success of inoculating the small-pox, in a letter to Dr. William Whitaker

  From the collection of Arnold Klebs.
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  Arnold Klebs’ writings on variolation

  Three writings on the topic: Arnold C. Klebs, “The Historical Evolution of Variolation". Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin 24 (1913): 69-83. Arnold C. Klebs, “Variolation im achtzehnten Jahrhundert; ein historischer Beitrag zur Immunitätsforschung” [Variolation in the Eighteenth Century: A Historical Study of Research on Immunity], Zur historischen Biologie der Krankheitserreger, 7. Heft. Giessen, A. Töpelman, 1910-1914. Bibliography of variolation. Compiled by Arnold C. Klebs ... [1913?]
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  Letter from Arnold Klebs to Harvey Cushing, February 23, 1916, Washington D.C.

  Klebs discussing Vesalius and the Fabrica title page.
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  Arnold Klebs looking up the Rhone Valley from his "favorite" view point …Toward the setting sun. Lake Geneva. Lausanne.

  From Harvey Cushing’s diary/scrapbook on his visit to Arnold Klebs during his Clinical Society Tour of Europe
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  Cover of "Desiderata in the Cataloging of Incunabula: With a Guide for Cataloging Entries"

  Reprinted from the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 10 (1916): 143-163. Presentation copy to Amelia H. Jones (“Aunt Amelia”).
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  Cover from the “History of Medicine as a Subject of Teaching and Research”

  Reprint from the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, 25 (Jan. 1914). Presentation copy to Amelia H. Jones.
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  Charcoal drawing of Arnold Klebs

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  Title page and frontispiece from Phthisiologia; or, A treatise of consumptions. Wherein the difference, nature, causes, signs, and cure of all sorts of consumptions are explained

  Richard Morton’s Phthisiologia, shown here, was the first pathological study of pulmonary tuberculosis, then called consumption or phthisis.
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  Page from the article “The Tuberculosis Problem: One Point of View"

  Reprint from the Annual Review of Tuberculosis, 2 (1918): 106-109.
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  Title page of Tuberculosis: A Treatise by American Authors on its Etiology, Pathology, Frequency, Semeiology, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Prevention, and Treatment

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  Pre-Publication Advertisement for Arnold Klebs’ Edited Volume on Tuberculosis