Noteworthy: A Look at the Oldest Item in the NLM Collection
Nestled among the National Library of Medicine’s renowned and wide-ranging History of Medicine collection of rare manuscripts, historic books, and journals is the third oldest Arabic medical manuscript in existence. The Comprehensive Book on Medicine (Kitab al-Hawi fi al-tibb), is the oldest manuscript in the collections of the NLM, and the anchor of the 139…