Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine years ago, as a young businessman in Detroit, Henry Schuman opened a little bookshop with his collection of first editions. One day an elderly doctor wandered in, asked for a volume by Réné Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope (1819). Bookseller Schuman found the search for this book as exciting as "digging in the Klondike," turned up several unexpected medical treasures along the way. After this, he devoted himself to rare medical books...
...specialist who caters to a profession of specialists is Bookseller Henry Schuman, dealer in rare medical books. Mr. Schuman has made a very good thing out of what started as a hobby. Last week he moved ten tons (about 20,000 volumes) of valuable books to his new, five-story house-and-bookshop on Manhattan's swank East 70th Street...
...Schuman has tracked down books for almost every medical bibliophile in the U.S. His star customer was the late Neurologist Harvey Cushing, whose famed medical collection was recently installed in the new Yale Medical Library. Dr. Cushing longed for the first medical book ever published in the American colonies-a copy of a lurid best-seller on herbalism which had been written in England by one Nicholas Culpeper (Boston, 1708). But he never got his hands on one of these first editions...
...Williams, as famed History Professor Frederick L. Schuman climaxed a series of pro-Ally classroom lectures with a prediction that "we are rapidly approaching . . . the end of Western civilization," the Williams Record exploded with a front-page editorial blast: "Is This Education?" Stormed the Record: "Day after day, lecture after lecture, he indulges in his own prophecies. . . . It violates all the ethics of the teaching profession...