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Description: Robert Burton's library in Christ Church Library, Oxford. In his will, Burton split his large library between the Bodleian and Christ Church libraries. According to Dewey (1969): "As in the Bodleian, the anatomist's [i.e. Burton's] books were "scattered indiscriminately" through out the Christ Church library (where Burton himself had once been the librarian), so it became a source of gratification to [William] Osler that he was permitted to gather them there in a conspicuous place, surrounding a copy of the Brasenose portrait [of Burton]."
Title: Robert Burton's library, Christ Church Library, Oxford, Cushing's Life of William Osler
Credit: Immediately: Dewey, Nicholas (22 December 1969). "Sir William Osler and Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy". JAMA. 210 (12): 2245–2250. doi:10.1001/jama.1969.03160380059014. PMID 4902643. Originally: Cushing, H. (1925). The Life of Sir William Osler, Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Author: Harvey Cushing (1869-1939)
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