Cartes de visite photograph of Valentine Mott from page 2 of an anonymous album. Mott was the father of American vascular surgery.
Part of an album of 23 small formal photographs of physicians.
Publisher: New York: J. Gurney & Son,...
Oil portrait of Valentine Mott, M.D. who was a pioneer vascular surgeon famous for ligation of great vessels for aneurysm. He was considered the leading American surgeon of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Portrait of Franz Joseph Gall, founder of the doctrine of the physiology of the brain. Painted by Rubidge and engraved by J. Alois. Facsimile signature.
Cartes de visite photograph of Thomas Henry Huxley from page 14 of Sharpey's Album. Huxley was a physician, zoologist, and paleontologist. Photographed by Elliott & Fry. Duplicate in Stewart Album, page 55.
Part of an album of eminent...
Hand colored diagram of the arterial system in a Persian treatise on anatomy by Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad. This is a seventeenth century copy of a late fourteenth century manuscript.