In the “American Library Association Bulletin” of October 1954, Norman Cousins voiced: “The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life (475).” Editor in chief of the Saturday Review for more than 30 years and renowned author of the best-selling book “Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient,” few can argue with Cousins plausibility (Pace, Eric). Odds is he spent many hours in the library examining past medical documents and other reliable sources to assist in his
