Word: incunabula
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Also on the first floor in the ornate Exhibition Room are the library's "incunabula" or "cradle books" published between 1455 and 1501. These rarities demonstrate early printing shortly after the inception of the printing press. Houghton a staff includes a large staff of cataloguers and book binders. Houghton Library periodically puts together thematic displays in the Exhibition Room for visitors, as it did last month with one commemorating the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth...
...Countway which enable historians to research medicine from its beginnings to the present time. At its inception, medicine was essentially based upon the natural sciences; botany, geology, and mineralogy. Consequently, the Countway collection of rare books include works by Isaac Newton and Marie Curie. There are one thousand incunabula, numerous papers on inoculation by Madison and Jefferson, the "Gray's Anatomy," and a host of letters by early American doctors like Benjamin Rush and Joseph Warren from which modern clinicians pick up new medical methods of treatment. Even obsolete medical procedures like blood letting and stretching bones can be found...