Explanation of Catalogue Entries
The History of Medicine Digital Library
College of Physicians of Philadelphia

[1]Alibert, Jean-Louis-Marie. 
     [2]Précis théorique et pratique sur les maladies de la peau.  [3](Paris:  1818).       
     [4]Cage Ja 13 (2v.).  [5]  (TP, Ded, Text) [6] GM 3487.  [7]

[1]  Author, last name first.  Names of authors are as they appear in the College's
      Online Public Access Catalogue.

[2]  Title.  Titles are as they appear in the College's Online Public Access 
       Catalogue.

[3]  Place and date of publication.

[4]  College of Physicians' call number.  The example is of a book that is 
      catalogued using the College's earlier cataloguing system.  Books also have 
      Library of Congress-type call numbers.  "Cage" indicates a book is located in 
      special collections.  The call number is also a hyperlink to the complete 
      catalogue record in the College's Online Public Access Catalogue. 

[5]  Portions of book digitized in the HMDL.  These include:

	Front       Frontispiece
	TP           Title page
	Ded         Dedication
	Pref         Preface
	TC           Table of contents
	Ill             Illustration
	Text         Part of the text
	Ind           Index

[6]  Where applicable, the book's number in Morton's Medical Bibliography:  An
      Annotated Check-list of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine, commonly
      called Garrison and Morton.  The volume used is the 5th edition, ed. Jeremy 
      Norman (Aldershot, England:  Scolar 1991).  First published in 1943, Garrison
      and Morton is the standard bibliography for the history of medicine.  Some    
      GM numbers are linked to brief discussions of the book, based on the 
      Garrison and Morton entry and other sources.

[7]  The green symbol indicates that the book was conserved using funds from
      the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant received by the College
      of Physicians in 1998.  Some 1500 books were phase boxed (placed in
      custom-made, acid-free boxes), 50 incunabula (books printed before 1501) 
      were clamshelled (placed in custom-made, rigid, acid-free boxes), and 200
      water-damaged books were phase-boxed and/or completely restored.

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