America's first free municipal university, founded in 1847, offered its services to everyone bright enough to meet its gruelling standards.

Kragh estimates more than 300 mentally handicapped people were operated on during that period at Copenhagen's University hospital and at a municipal hospital in Aarhus, Denmark's second largest city.

Whether it is a municipal library or your university library, you will be amazed at some of the books available there that are not accessible online.