Typed Letter, Signed, from Harvey Cushing to Albert Berthel, 81a Chester Square, London, S.W. 1, England (June 29, 1936). Matted and framed (total size 17" x 14").

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Very Good. Letterhead: Dr. Harvey Cushing/ Yale University/ The School of Medicine/ New Haven Connecticut. June 29, 1936. Dear Mr. Berthel, Thanks for your letter of May 17. I am greatly interested in old medical books but do not go in for engravings and portraits. If you run across any interesting rare copies of books by Nicholas Culpepper [sic], the astrologer, I will be glad to have you quote them for me. Sincerely yours, Harvey Cushing (signed). On January 25, 1935, "H.C. entertained the Nathan Smith Club, an undergraduate society of medical historians, at his house. . . . Cushing followed with a diverting paper on his seventeenth-century friend, Nicholas Culpeper, herb doctor and charlatan, who had interested H.C. because of the wide influence exerted by his nostrums. H.C. had always been intrigued by fantastic personalities, and Culpeper, as a self-confessed impostor, engaged his attention to such an extent that he brought together over the years 119 different editions of his various writings" (Fulton, Harvey Cushing, p. 657). In the catalogue of The Harvey Cushing Collection of Books and Manuscripts, the books by Nicholas Culpeper are C530-C639 (pp. 56-57). Seller Inventory # 15880

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