History of Medicine and the Sciences

The History of Medicine and the Sciences area in Library Special Collections documents the history of thought and practice, discoveries and inventions, research trends, communities and communications, and teaching methods and materials in medicine and its allied health fields and in the biological and physical sciences. Collections consist of books, journals, manuscripts, prints, portraits, and objects. Formerly available at a reading room on the 4th floor of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, they now are accessed in the Ahmanson-Murphy Reading Room on the A level of the Charles E. Young Research Library.