VMs: Biological / balneological research lead...?

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 05:53 04/02/2004 -0800, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> Most herbal books consist of drawings being copied
> from earlier similar books. The biological
> drawings have yet to find a parallel.

AFAIK, balneological books & manuscripts in The New York Academy of 
Medicine collection (whose Special Collections has a "wealth of material on 
spas and bathing") have yet to be checked over for parallels with the VMs. 
That's a research lead I'd particularly like to follow up... :-)
http://www.nyam.org/initiatives/im-hist.shtml
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/directory/039.html
http://www.nyam.org/library/malloch1.shtml#balneology

A good direction to take might be to contact the NYAM Historical 
Collections & see if you can talk to Miriam Mandelbaum, Curator of Rare 
Books - <mailto:mmandelbaum@xxxxxxxx>mmandelbaum@xxxxxxxx - who might be 
able to advise us directly, or to recommend someone who is an acknowledged 
expert on the subject.

Does anyone want to take this on? It seems reasonably clear that this 
section of the VMs' does fall within this general historical tradition, so 
this is one of the more overtly academic research approaches one might 
take. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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