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THE progress of this magnum opus seems irresistible. Year by year the volumes reach us with a regularity that implies strength, and a completeness that indicates a more than mechanical accuracy of work. It still remains, so far as we know, unique among printed catalogues in classifying under subject-headings, such as Mercury, Milk, Neuralgia, &c., not only the books, but also the whole of the signed medical articles in the 3500 periodicals which form the medical press of the world, from Pekin to Paris, from Newfoundland to Uruguay. The newspaper articles are still, as they have always been, collected under the subject-title only, and not under the name of the writer also; for, if the latter cross-cataloguing had been adopted, we should have had more than 300,000 cross-entries, which would have necessitated already two more volumes at least as large as the present; but those articles or essays which the authors have thought it worth while to reprint all come under their names as pamphlets, and this is no inconsiderable number.
The Index-Catalogue to the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army.
Vol. IX. Medicine (Popular)—Nywelt. Pp. 1054. (Washington: Government Printing Press, 1888.)
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MYERS, A. An Index-Catalogue . Nature 39, 387 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039387a0
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