Number of physicians gathered around a table in an elegant drawing room. One is speaking with great fervor, others are listening, sleeping, talking to another, or daydreaming. By Geyer, engraved by Payne.
Photograph taken at the dedication of the Wilmer Institute of Johns Hopkins in October, 1929. Left to right, seated: Fuchs, De Schweinitz; standing: Parsons, Wilmer.
Photograph of Thomas R. Boggs, Chief of Medicine at Baltimore City Hospitals. Note on verso indicates that Dr. Boggs was one of Osler’s staff at Johns Hopkins. Presentation inscription: “To my young colleague, Wiley D. Forbus, with sincere...
Portrait of Ure looking straight ahead with his body turned slightly to the right. Engraved by R. Roffe from an original painting by Daniel McNee, for the Mechanics Magazine vol. XXVII. Published Dec. 1st 1837 by W. A. Robertson, Peterborough...
Portrait of Benjamin Rush sitting at a desk. Engraved by R. W. Dodson from a painting by T. Sully in possession of Richard Bush Esqr. Facsimile signature.
Autographed photo of Janos Bokay with presentation inscription in German to Dr. Wilburt C. Davison. Signature of W. C. Davison on back of framed photograph. Gift of Jay Arena, M.D. May, 1967.
Leake writing with a pencil, looking at his writing rather than at the camera. Presentation inscription: "For Henry Schuman, God bless him, the most erudite, generous and genial of all book and cheese lovers! Ides of March-for which no fear! 1943...
Portrait of Albert John Ochsner wearing glasses, in three-quarters right profile. Photographed by Adolf Eckstein. Facsimile signature.
Publisher: Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Portrait of Paul Ehrlich in his laboratory. He appears to have been the first to appreciate the importance of megaloblastosis in primary anemias. Painted by Homer Hill.
Picture of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Included in foreground are a book, a cup and a pair of scissors. The border includes columns with ivy, butterflies, and flowers. Text in Latin.
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.
Cartes de visite of James Young Simpson from page 34 of Sharpey's Album. Photographed by E. Dallas.
Part of an album of eminent scientists, surgeons, etc. with a collection of autographed letters and 17 small formal photographs.
Publisher:...
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.
Picture of Louis Pasteur in his laboratory. He is standing near a table holding some glassware in his hand. Other glassware is shown on the table. Painted by A. Edelfelt in 1885. Text at bottom: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year...
Bookplate: Young girl with a flower in her right hand sits on a grassy hillside. Against a mountain backdrop two children carry an oversized crutch. An arch of roses frames the scene with a serpent and bowl on the right and an owl and books below.
Picture showing the bust of a man's head surrounded by a circular border with a shelf of books and other objects below. A caduceus is shown at the top of the sheet. Presented by the Dental Class of 1939. Drawn by Leslie Victor Smith.
Picture of a hand holding a banner reading "'Knowledge is power' - Bacon." Numbered 55. At top "Medical and scientific library." For G. I. Fisher, A.M., M.D. By C. Ulrich.
Moses holding the Ten Commandments looks down on a panorama of modern Israel. A caduceus is placed in the lower right corner. Text in Latin and Hebrew.
Bookplate: Winged cherub surrounded by a decorative frame of foliage holds aloft a candle in his right hand. He pries open the mouth of a serpent with his left hand and right foot.
Picture of a coat of arms. It shows a hand reaching down from a cloud touching another outsretched hand. A stringed instrument is shown on the bottom of the shield. Two figures (probably angels) are shown on the sides of the plate and another is...
Picture of some buildings as they appear from an open window. Several books are on a table, and a caduceus is shown at right. Text in Latin. Drawn by Ada Carazzola.
Bookplate: Four surgically gowned figures surround an operating table with a patient. Medical instruments are in the foreground, academic buildings are in the background.
Bookplate: A squirming convoluted pile of babies are circumscribed by an ellipse. Various books and medical instruments (trephine, tuning fork, forceps, reflex hammer) are scattered beyond the border. Double serpents are twined around a winged...
Portrait of a priest in clerical garb with his right hand on a cross. A landscape is shown in the foreground. The name "S. V. Voitech" appears on the cleric's headdress.
Picture by Lossilla of a skeleton smoking a cigarette, looking at a microscope, with an open book and a quill pen next to him. Caption: "La muerte por la ciencia."
Picture of a bust of Hipocrates, with children putting laurels and flowers on it. Books, cats, and a man's head below. Caption at top "Vitam impendere vero". By Alexander Coll for Dr. Enrique Saez.