Famed Cardiologist Bruce Fye on Collecting Medical History Books
Bruce Fye\xa0 is an American retired\xa0cardiologist,\xa0medical historian, writer,\xa0bibliophile\xa0and\xa0philanthropist. He is emeritus professor of medicine and the history of medicine at the\xa0Mayo Clinic,\xa0and was the founding director of the institution\u2019s W. Bruce Fye Center for the History of Medicine, named by the Clinic in his honour as a result of his philanthropy.
In addition to building up a large collection of books, offprints, and autographs relating to the history of cardiology, and\xa0to Sir William Osler during his lifetime, Fye has been a collector of prints and engravings relating to medicine and the portraits of physicians.\xa0In 2016, he donated many of his books to the Mayo Clinic.
We met in Montreal, during an American Olser Society meeting, to discuss book collecting and Bruce's life as a book collector.\xa0