Exterior views of the construction of the Seeley G. Mudd building which was designed to house the Duke University Medical Center Library. Photographed by Tony Rumple. View 3.
Exterior views of the construction of the Seeley G. Mudd building which was designed to house the Duke University Medical Center Library. Photographed by Tony Rumple. View 9.
Cartes de visite photograph of Isaac Ebenezer Taylor from page 11 of an anonymous album. Taylor was an obstetrician and gynecologist. He was founder and lifetime president of Bellevue Hospital Medical College and a founder and president of the New York...
Cartes de visite photograph of Stephen Smith from page 5 of an anonymous album. Smith was a leading late 19th century American surgeon. He was the principal founder of the American Public Health Association and was its first president. He was also an...
Cartes de visite photograph of Philip Henry Stanhope from page 28 of Sharpey's Album. Photographed by Maull & Polyblank.
Part of an album of eminent scientists, surgeons, etc. with a collection of autographed letters and 17 small formal...
Photograph of three uniformed soldiers posing in front of an early model army truck. Photo came from envelope marked X-Ray repair shop Paris. From the archives of Charles Reed.
The nursing can, or mammele, was an early infant feeding device handmade from tin. It was used by German settlers in southeastern Pennsylvania and thought to be indigenous to that region.
Photograph of Karl Sudhoff. Inscription in upper left hand corner of the photograph indicates Professor Sudhoff was the guest of honor on the occasion of the dedication of the Welch Library of Johns Hopkins University and the Institute of the History...
Painting of the generals and staff at Sebastopol. Miss Nightingale is on horseback on the right. From a picture by Barlser. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 19.
Photograph of the Florence Nightingale Memorial at the Royal Military Hospital, Milbank consisting of a stained glass window and a marble plaque. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 46.
Publisher: London: Barratt Photographers Press...
Portrait of Samuel Thomas Soemmerring, member of the Academy of Sciences and Professor of Medicine at Munich. Drawn by Bender and engraved by Ambroise Tardieu. Text in French.
Portrait of John Huxham, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, & of the Royal Society at London. Painted by Thos. Rennell and engraved by E. Fisher.
Portrait of Robert Koch sitting, resting his head on his left hand, with his left arm propped on a table. K. Fechner, photographer. Numbered 4342.
Publisher: Berlin: Photographische Gesellschaft.
Trephine or Trepan was a surgical instrument used to open the cranium. It was essentially a device to drill a circular hole in the head. The example pictured here had perpendicular teeth, a center pin and a screw button in the shaft of the barrel to...
William Harvey sitting in a chair. From the portrait belonging to the Royal College of Physicians. Painted by Cornelius Jansen and engraved by Emery Walker. "Gutielmus Harvey M D" across top of painting.
Portrait of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, a famous pioneer of biochemical investigation. He shared the 1929 Nobel Prize for medicine. "Triangle Volume V No. 2 July 1961" at head of sheet.
Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of Letters of Botany, &c., with a view of the Tomb of Jean-Jacques Rousseau below. Painted by Ramsay, Portrait Painter to the King. Engraved by Caldwall.
London: Published by Dr. Thornton, Hinde; Street....
Panelled binding on one of the few medical books from the library of Jean Grolier, the famous book collector. It bears his motto: Io Grolierii et amicorum. The volume is located at: S Benedetti 1527.
Publisher: [Cologniae]: Eucharius
Portrait of Sebastian Vaillant, author of Botanicum Parisiense, with a view of the Palais Royale below. Portrait of Vaillant drawn by Aubnet and engraved by Hopwood. Lower scene drawn by Surant and engraved by Roffe.
London: Published by Dr. Thornton....
Portrait of John Hill, M.D., Knight of the Polar Star, First Superintendent of the Royal Gardens at Kew, with a view of the Royal Palace in Kew Gardens. Drawn by Coates R. A. Engraved by Vendramini.
London: Published for Dr. Thornton. Part of a group...
Portrait of Nehemiah Grew, M.D., Secretary to the Royal Society, with a view of Gresham College, where the first Meetings of the Royal Society were held. Engraved by Newton.
London: Published for Dr. Thornton. Part of a group of 16 portraits of noted...
Picture of Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck. Lithographed by Boilly. The number "8363" is shown in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet.
Publisher: Berlin: Photographische Gesellschaft.
Portrait of Linnaeus, from a copy by Pasch in the possession of R. Brown Esqr. of the original at the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. Engraved by C. E. Wagstaff.
Portrait of Miss Nightingale entering one of the wards at Scutari with an officer. Drawn by W. Simpson and lithographed by E. Walker and Day & Son, Lithrs to the Queen. Text in bottom right-hand corner: "Colnaghi's Authentic Series." More text is...
Portrait of Benjamin Rush. Drawn by E. Savage and etched by L. E. Faber. A picture of two small buildings is shown in the bottom left hand corner. Facsimile signature.
Publisher: Philadelphia: Published and Copyright by Isaiah Price, D.D.S.
Portrait of Thomas Denman. A landscape scene is shown in the background. Drawn by Abbott and engraved by Skelton.
Publsiher: London: Published by W. Skelton, Hay Market.
Portrait showing Emil du Bois-Reymond, facing left. Lithographed by G. Englebach and printed by M. W. Lasfally, Berlin. Facsimile signature.
Publisher: Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald.
Picture of a statue of Jenner sitting holding a baby in his lap, preparing to inject the baby. Sculpted by Monteverde, photoengraved by Goupil & co. Text in French.
Portrait of John Latham. Drawn by George Dance on August 21, 1798, and engraved by William Daniell.
London: Published by William Daniell, No. 9 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square.
Photograph of John George Adami. Photographed by Notman, Montreal. Facsimile signature. The number "14745" is shown in the bottom right hand corner of the sheet.
Publisher: Berlin-Charlottenburg: Adolf Eckstein's Verlag.
Portrait of Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, who studied physiological phenomena, paving the way for acceptance of the basic principle of energy conservation in physiology.