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Start Over Location David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Year 1860 to 1869

  • John Hunter

    Description:
    Portrait of John Hunter, facing left, by T. H. Maguire taken from a pencil drawing by Nathaniel Holland. Drawing now in the possession of Royal College of Surgeons of England to whom it was presented by Captn. Sir Everard Home, Bart. in July 1849....
    Date:
    1869

  • Dr. Alexander Anderson

    Description:
    Alexander Anderson, M.D. The amiable and excellent Engraver and Father of the Art of Wood Engraving in America, in his Ninety Second year. Caption signed by L. E. C.
    Date:
    1867

  • Four views of James Young Simpson

    Description:
    Photograph of James Young Simpson giving four different views of his face. Manuscript note on verso: "J. Y. S. 1868."
    Date:
    1868

  • James Young Simpson

    Description:
    Photograph of James Young Simpson. Manuscript note on verso: "J. Y. S 1868."
    Date:
    1868

  • Jessie Simpson

    Description:
    Manuscript note on verso indicates that this is a photograph of Jessie Simpson. The same hand has written "Jessie" at the lower left corner of the photograph.
    Date:
    1865

  • Chimborazo Hospital, 1862

    Description:
    Landscape illustration showing Chimborazo Hospital in the background. A guard house is in the foreground. Drawn by Elmo Jones.
    Date:
    1862

  • Carl Gegenbaur im 35. Lebensjahre

    Description:
    Photograph of Carl Gegenbaur at age 35. Taken in Jena in 1861.
    Date:
    1861

  • Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss

    Description:
    Picture of Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss at age 43. Text in German.
    Date:
    1861

  • John Morgan

    Description:
    Portrait of John Morgan. Etched by H. B. Hall. Presentation inscription: "Your ever affecte. Brother John Morgan."
    Date:
    1869

  • Nineteenth Century Bronze Ecorche or Muscleman

    Description:
    Bronze ecorche or muscleman, front view, left side.
    Date:
    19th Century

  • Nineteenth Century Bronze Ecorche or Muscleman

    Description:
    Bronze ecorce or muscleman, back view.
    Date:
    19th century

  • Nineteenth Century Bronze Ecorche or Muscleman

    Description:
    Bronze ecorche or muscleman, front view right side.
    Date:
    19th century

  • Wound Man

    Description:
    A healing fetish figure from the Bakongo people of the lower Congo region of Africa. The fetish is a wooden "wound man" called a "ma moganga."
    Date:
    1850-1899

  • Henry Jacob Bigelow

    Description:
    Cartes de visite photograph of Henry Jacob Bigelow from page 24 of an anonymous album. Bigelow was a major innovator in orthopedic surgery. He was present at Morton's public ether demonstration and was a bitter opponent of the admissions of blacks...
    Date:
    [1860-1880]

  • George Cheyne Shattuck, Jr.

    Description:
    Cartes de visite photograph of George Cheyne Shattuck, Jr., from page 25 of an anonymous album. Shattuck was president of the Massachusetts Medical Society for which he established the annual Shattuck lectureship. Photographed by J. W. Black. Part...
    Date:
    [1860-1880]

  • Edward Hammond Clarke

    Description:
    Cartes de visite photograph of Edward Hammond Clarke from page 16 of an anonymous album. Clarke claimed that the health of adolescent women could be endangered by academic work and thus argued against co-education and the admission of women to...
    Date:
    [1860-1880]

  • Henry Ingersoll Bowditch

    Description:
    Cartes de visite photograph of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch from page 19 of an anonymous album. Bowditch was a physician specializing in diseases of the chest. He was interested in public health and also influenced the army to improve its ambulance...
    Date:
    [1860-1880]

  • John Barnard Swett Jackson

    Description:
    Cartes de visite photograph of John Barnard Swett Jackson from page 21 of an anonymous album. Jackson was curator of Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard and curator of the Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Photographed by J. W....
    Date:
    [1860-1880]

  • David Williams Cheever

    Description:
    Cartes de visite photograph of David Williams Cheever from page 18 of an anonymous album. Cheever was the first president of the medical staff of Boston City Hospital and editor of the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal." Photographed by J. W....
    Date:
    [1860-1880]

  • David Humphreys Storer

    Description:
    Cartes de visite photograph of David Humphreys Storer from page 22 of an anonymous album. Storer was a popular teacher of obstetrics and dean of the Harvard Medical School. Photographed by J. W. Black. Part of an album of 23 small formal...
    Date:
    [1860-1880]