THE UZBEK STATE SCIENTIFIC THE UZBEK STATE SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARY

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UzbekistanUzbekistan

Uzbekistan is the most populated country in Central AsiaUzbekistan is the most populated country in Central Asia PopulationPopulation – 25 – 25.6 million people.6 million people

USSMLUSSML

Uzbek State Scientific Medical Uzbek State Scientific Medical Library (USSML) is one of the Library (USSML) is one of the oldest libraries of the Central oldest libraries of the Central AsiaAsia

The library was founded in The library was founded in 19351935

The library is one of the The library is one of the greatest repositories of greatest repositories of biomedical literaturebiomedical literature

The USSML CollectionThe USSML Collection

Consists of about one Consists of about one million documents million documents including books, including books, periodical issues, periodical issues, dissertations in Uzbek, dissertations in Uzbek, Russian and other Russian and other languageslanguages

160 thousand books and 160 thousand books and journals in the Foreign journals in the Foreign Literature collectionLiterature collection

In the USSML there are such rarities and In the USSML there are such rarities and valuable books asvaluable books as

““Canon of medical science” by Avicenna in ArabicCanon of medical science” by Avicenna in Arabic Scientific works of HippocratScientific works of Hippocrat The scientific publishings of XVII-XIX centuriesThe scientific publishings of XVII-XIX centuries

There is a great number of works of the founders of There is a great number of works of the founders of medical science and clinical practicemedical science and clinical practice

The works of the famous scientists in the field of The works of the famous scientists in the field of medicine and biology of Uzbekistanmedicine and biology of Uzbekistan