• In the collection, mainly medicine and pharmacy books published in Paris and Istanbul between the 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century; manuscripts, medical journals, newspapers, letters, testimonials, certificates, prescriptions, reports, advertisements, advertisements, invoices, envelopes, letterheads, photographs, medicine bottles, medicine boxes, and laboratory materials. Of these, 5050 are books and magazines.

 

• The oldest piece in the collection is the original folio of the famous Siena physician and botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-1577), dated 1568, of an Italian Commentary on Materia Medica printed in Venice. Makalat-ı Tıbbiye (1844), translated from the French original to Turkish by Chief Physician Abdülhak Hayrullah Efendi, is the first medical work in the collection published in Turkish.

 

• An important part of the collection consists of Turkish medicine and pharmacy books with old and new letters; This is followed, in alphabetical order, by various books and ephemera written in German, Arabic, Danish, Armenian, Persian, Finnish, French, Georgian, Spanish, Swedish, Italian, Karamanli (Turkish with Greek letters), Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Greek and other languages. is doing.

 

• Among the researchers in the history of medicine and pharmacy whose signed book is included in the collection are the following: Prof. Afife Mat, Prof. Ali Haydar Bayat, Prof. Asuman Baytop, Prof. Axel Helmstaedter, Prof. Ayten Altintas, Pharm. Bengt Mattila, Pharm. Bruno Bonnemain, Dr. Christiane Staiger, Prof. Christoph Friedrich, Prof. Emre Dolen, Prof. Esin Kahya, Prof. Glenn Sonnedecker, Prof. Greg Higby, Prof. Gulten Dinc, Prof. Ilter Uzel, Mert Sandalci, Prof. Nuran Yildirim, Prof. Olivier Lafont, Prof. João Rui Pita, Prof. Sabine Anagnostou, Prof. Scott Podolsky, Prof. Suheyl Unver, Prof. Turhan Baytop and Prof. Yeşim Işıl-Ülman.

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