BIBLIOTHECA MEDICINAE PRATICAE QUA SCRIPTA AD PARTEM MEDICINAE PRACTICAM FACIENTIA A RERUM INITIIS AD A. MDCCLXXV RECENSENTUR. BERNAE APUD EM. HALLER, & BASILEAE APUD JOH. SCHWEIGHAUSER, 1776-1788. 1776

4 VOLUMI IN- 4°, M. PELLE COEVA (DORSI QUA E LÀ GRAFFIATI). VIII, 539, (1); VI, 722; (IV), 650; VIII, 598 PP. BELL' ESEMPLARE DELLA RARA EDIZIONE ORIGINALE. "HALLER IS THE GREATEST BIBLIOGRAPHER IN OUR RANKS. HIS WORKS HAVE BEEN MOST HELPFUL IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS CATALOGUE. TO LEARNING AND JUDGEMENT HE ADDED THAT INDISPENSABLE QUALITY IN A BIBLIOGRAPHER, ACCURACY." (W, OSLER IN BIBLIOTHECA OSLERIANA, 1148). "HALLER IN ONE OF THE GREATEST NAMES IN MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. WHILE PURSUING HIS MONUMENTAL SCIENTIFIC CAREER HE FOUND TIME TO COMPILE BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF BOTANY, ANATOMY, MEDICINE AND SURGERY WHICH FORMED THE MOST COMPLETE REFERENCE WORK OF THE TIME, CONSISTING OF A CLASSIFIED ANALYSIS OF OVER 52, 000 PUBLICATIONS OF ALL COUNTRIES." (GARRISON & MORTON, 438, 6747). "THE ENTIRE WORK IS ARRANGED BY LARGE SUBJECT GROUPS, THEN CHRONOLOGICALLY UNDER THE SUBJECT. AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF ALL THE WRITERS IS ALSO SUPPLIED. HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY WE FIND A WORK WHICH ATTEMPTS TO BE BOTH COMPREHENSIVE AND CRITICAL AT THE SAME TIME. IT WAS A MAGNIFICENT ATTEMPT, PROBABLY IMPOSSIBLE OF ACHIEVEMENT BY ANY LESSER PERSON OR ONE LESS INDUSTRIOUS THAN HALLER." (BRODMAN, THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHI, PP. 71-74). CHOULANT, BIBLIOTHECA MEDICO.HISTORICA, P. 161. FULTON, THE GREAT MEDICAL BIBLIOGRAPHERS, PP. 43-44.