To the extent called to the attention of an expert witness upon cross-examination or relied upon by the expert witness in direct examination, a statement contained in a published treatise, periodical or pamphlet on a subject of history, medicine or other science or art, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if such book is established as a reliable authority by the testimony or admission of the witness or by other expert testimony or by judicial notice.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 796)