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I got sent down a rabbithole of searching by this article too, apparently the doctor wrote an autobiography (in English!) in 1959 that was republished as recent

I got sent down a rabbithole of searching by this article too, apparently the doctor wrote an autobiography (in English!) in 1959 that was republished as recently as 2014, but apparently the only way to get ahold of it here is to have it shipped from Malaysia. Or some college libraries, which are unfortunately closed right now due to COVID. I think we forget that the vast majority (i.e, pre-2005-ish) of human knowledge still exists in the old physical world of print and libraries. Unless you're exceedingly lucky (or it was recently reprinted), its basically impossible to get your hands on a digital version of an old book. Your best hope is that Google Books (which seems mostly abandoned) scanned it and will let you read a few pages.

yesenadam 7y ago
>Unless you're exceedingly lucky (or it was recently reprinted), its basically impossible to get your hands on a digital version of an old book. I read a lot of old books - early 20th C, 19th, 18th, 17th C, and medieval and ancient. Archive.org has most of what I search for - nice scans, in multiple formats, free. Also you can often borrow mid-late 20th C stuff online from there for a few weeks if not they're not downloadable outright. Libgen has a lot of stuff from early-mid 20th C and before. If those fail, I order it online, usually a few dollars. We're so spoilt!