The Dutch have greatly contributed to the development of medical science, not only in the seventeenth and eighteenth century (when Boerhaave flourished as the 'communis Europae praeceptor'), but even into this century (when Einthoven introduced electrocardiography). Since 1975 Prof. G.A. Lindeboom's A Classified Bibliography of the History of Dutch Medicine 1900-1974 was the reference guide of the rich history of Dutch medicine. Prof. Van Lieburg's forthcoming bibliography is a thoroughly revised, completed and extended edition of Lindeboom's Bibliography. The circa 15,000 entries are highly accessible by many indexes.