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nt the first "fountain pen " to ball point pens 213 Düring his student years he began to take advantage of the famous library that the dukes of Brunswick kept in their former residential city, and where Bücking's own manuscripts are preserved in 41 volumes. This material shows him to be an expert in cryptology; one of his favorité areas were the so-called sympathetic inks that were used in secret communication — experience that enabled him to produce the very proper ink for his own fountain pen. In the medical histories of his patients that he penned down every night he also profited from his cryptographic experience as he would record "diseases that nobody would have liked to be known" and the names of his patients in his personal cipher. III. 3: Johann Jakob Heinrich Bücking (1749-1838): Sammlung von Auff-sätzen und Beobach-tungen aus den meisten Theilen der Arzneywissenschaft (1787): "Schreibfeder von Silber mit Dinte " (silver pen with ink [suppty]) In a 1787 collection of medical case histories that he expanded in 1791,

7 Bücking included hi? invention of a "

Schreibfeder von Silber mit Dinte

" (silver pen with ink [supply]) (III. 3). In the preface to this volume, he described how the need to write out urgent prescriptions in the homes of his rather poor patients made him see the value of such a "pen with ink." He knew Schwenter's early invention through his cryptologic studies, referred to Bion, whose inexact illustration he found of little use, and to Nicolai, whose pen he was 7 Bücking, J.J.H.: Sammlung von Auffsätzen und Beobachtungen aus den meisten Theilen der Arzneywissenschaft. Stendhal, 1787, Preface, XVI-XXIV. and fold-out after XXXV. Second edition: 1791.