UCL's biomedical collections include a wealth of fascinating historical material. Numbering around 10,000 volumes and extensive archives, they range in time from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The collections include works by some of the key authors in medical history including pioneers at UCL, where the first operation under anaesthesia in Europe took place in 1846, and the first clinical x-ray was taken in 1896.
The historical collections are held by UCL Special Collections, or in some cases located at the specialist library site
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