Portrait of Jacobus Henricus Van 'T Hoff, a Dutch chemist who laid the foundations for stereochemistry. He was the first to receive the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. "Triangle Volume V No. 3 September 1961" appears at head of sheet.
Photograph of a house painted white. Text at bottom: "Belroi Birthplace of Dr. Walter Reed, Gloucester Virginia. Restored 1927. D. N. Davidson." Presented to the Duke Hospital by Clarence Porter Jones.
Photograph of an unpainted house, prerestoration. Text at bottom: "Belroi Birthplace of Dr. Walter Reed, Gloucester Virginia. D. N. Davidson." Presented to the Duke Hospital by Clarence Porter Jones.
Portrait of Parrish facing left. From the original painting in the possession of the family. Drawn by Street, engraved by Albert Rosenthal. Facsimile signature.
Tuesday morning conference in the old autopsy room at Bay View. Facilities were used for the instruction of Hopkins Medical students. The material used at these conferences was brought to Duke and formed the basis of the original Duke collection...
Portrait of Florence Nightingale and some nurses at the bedside of a wounded soldier. A doctor is also present. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, No. 16.
Manuscript note on verso indicates that this is from a portrait of James Young Simpson's favorite dog Ruck. Recieved from Miss Eve B. Simpson, March 1901.
John Mitchell in his lodge outfit. Engraved by Traubei; Wagner & McGuigan lithographers. Drawn and engraved expressly for the Masonic Mirror & Keystone. Facsimile signature.
Portrait showing Ephraim McDowell performing the first ovariotomy. He is assisted by three other men. Another woman is shown in a doorway in the background. From a painting by G. K. Knapp.
Publisher: Danville, Kentucky.
Single female ivory anatomical manikin of seventeenth or eighteenth century European origin. Plate has been removed to reveal the contents of her thorax and abdomen.
John Fulton, Madeline Stanton, and Arturo Castiglioni (left to right) at the dinner in honor of the publication of "The Bibliography of Vesalius" and "The Short Title Catalogue of Cushing's Library."
John Fulton and Mrs. Harvey Cushing (left to right) at the dinner in honor of the publication of "The Bibliography of Vesalius" and "The Short Title Catalogue of Cushing's Library."
Portrait of a meeting of the Medical Society of London. A man is standing and addressing the other seated members. The names of the 22 members are at the bottom of the sheet. Included are Edward Jenner and William Saunders. Inscription at bottom...
Portrait of George Shaw, author of General Zoology. His portrait is set in an oval frame at top of sheet. Underneath the portrait is a picture giving a back view of the British Museum. Painted by Russell, R. A., Portrait Painter to Their...
Photograph of the Nightingale Corner at Johns Hopkins School of Nurses. In the corner are a wheelchair, a statue of Florence Nightingale and some portraits of her. Attached to verso is a letter from E. M. Lawler, Superintendent of Nurses dated...
Portrait of John Q. Quekett. He is sitting in a chair with right hand on a table with a microscope. Quekett was a microscopist, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Adjunct Conservator of the Hunterian Museum.
Spurzheim standing, with people around him who appear hostile or upset. One man is brandishing fists, a woman is drawing away, and several other men are glaring at Spurzheim. Drawn by Bruyeres, engraved by Nargeol. Plate 90.
Portrait of Frederic Ruysch. Painted by J. Wandelaar and engraved by J. Jenkins. Inscription and facsimile signature.
Publisher: London and Paris: Fisher, Son & Co.
Surgical saw with elaborately tooled frame handle. It is displayed with a copy of Gersdorff's "Feldbuch der Wundtartzney" which has been opened to an illustration of a surgeon using a similar saw.
Photograph of Florence Nightingale Memorial in Florence, Italy. The memorial is in the Cloister of Santa Croce. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 50.
People standing outside the Boston General Hospital. Drawn by R. Goodacre, engraved and printed by Fenner Sears & Co. Published May 1, 1831 by I. T. Hinton and Simpkin & Marshall.
Picture of Paul Emil Flechsig. He is sitting down with his right hand on his leg. Photographed by Nicola Perscheid. The number "4799" is shown is the right hand corner of the sheet.
Portrait of an older Johann von Mikulicz-Radecki. Facsimile signature. The number "1742" is shown in the bottom right hand corner of the sheet.
Publisher: Berlin-Charlottenburg: Adolf Eckstein's Verlag.
Picture of Joseph Lister, who made classic studies on the process of inflammation, and showed the blood could be kept indefinitely free from putrefaction.
Portrait of Richard Lower wearing a squared collar. Lower was a pioneer in blood transfusion, and showed that blood changed color when passing through the lungs.
Portrait of Ray wearing a dark jacket, vest and bow tie, and facing right. Presentation inscription "To Henry Schuman, with cordial regards, J. Christian Ray."