Portait of adult woman who was the first baby born of a mother to whom anesthesia had been administered. Photograph given to Howard Kelly by Eve Simpson, daugther of Sir James Simpson.
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.
Portrait of Sir Frederick Hopkins, founder of the Cambridge University School of Biochemistry. Nobel Prize winner, 1929, for his discovery of growth-promoting vitamins.
Portrait of Dominique Jean Larrey looking downward to his right, wearing a coat with braids and cords on the right shoulder and medals on the left. Text in French. By Pierre Guerin.
Portrait of Rene Descartes sitting at a desk with a pen in his right hand and several books on a table in front of him. Drawn by Tacquand and engraved by Gartte.
Portrait of Richard Mead above with a small picture of a hand holding a magnifying glass in front of a bowl of snakes below. Engraved by J. Pass for the Encyclopedia Londinensis.
Photograph of August Krogh, who showed that blood capacity for oxygen is influenced by carbon dioxide tension. Krogh was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1920.
Portrait of Thomas Linacre, First President of the Royal College of Physicians. Engraved by H. Cook. Manuscript note attributes the original painting to Holbein or Quentin Massys. Facsimile signature.
Portrait of James Blundell. A curtain and shelves of books are shown in the background. Drawn by H. Room and engraved by J. Cochran. Facsimile signature.
Reception in the Duke University Medical Center Library following the dedication ceremonies. Lower lobby with guests moving in the direction of the History of Medicine Reading Room. Dr. Martin Cummings and Dr. William G. Anlyan are at far left.
Reception in the Duke University Medical Center Library following the dedication ceremonies. Left to right, Dr. William G. Anlyan, Dr. Martin Cummings, and Dr. Jane G. Elchlepp talking with guests in the lower lobby.
Celebration commemorating the Library's tenth anniversary since its move to the Seeley G. Mudd building. Entrance lobby with Sally Wardell and Connie Culler at the circulation desk.
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...
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....
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.
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Portrait of John Hunter. He is sitting in a chair with a quill pen in his right hand and his left hand on his chin. His left elbow is resting on a table containing several books. Drawn by Sir Joshua Reynolds. From the engraving in the collection...
Photograph of Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz. He is standing grasping a pince-nez in his left hand. His right hand is on a table. Photographed by Nicola Perscheid. The number "4726" is shown at the bottom of the sheet.
Publisher: Berlin:...
Portrait of Guy Crescent Fagon wearing a wig. Drawn by Sandoz and engraved by Sichling. The words "tableau du temps" appear directly beneath. Fagon was physician to Louis XIV. At head of sheet: "2482 BIS."
Portrait of William Harvey. Harvey was a member of the College of Physicians in London. Drawn by C. Jansen and engraved by W. C. Edwards.
Published by John Murray, Albemarle Street.
Portrait of Julius Casserius. He is surrounded by an ornate border with a different angel in each corner. He is shown dissecting what appears to be a hand. Text in Latin.
Portrait of Hoppius wearing a cap, with pillars covered with ivy on either side, and copius text in both Latin and German. By Christoph Spetner, engraved by Johann Durr.
17th century copy of a late 14th century Persian manuscript treatise on anatomy showing an illuminated title page. Slide 1. Located at: qS Mansur 15th century.
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 1.
Duke University Hospital Library reading room with only a few readers. Photographed by Walter E. Shackelford.
Durham, NC: Walter E. Shackelford, Custom Photography
Photograph of uniformed men lining a what appears to be a street within a military installation. They seem to be holding eating and cooking implements. From the archive of Charles Reed.
Photograph of three uniformed men posing in front of cannon and cannonball in upstate New York. Possibly Medical Reserve Corpsmen.; From the archive of Charles Reed.
Photograph of eight men huddled in a doorway smiling. Inscription on the back reads--Chow Line. Photograph comes from an envelope marked X-Ray repair shop Paris.
Portrait of Robert Boyle. He is surrounded by an ornate oval frame. In the top left hand corner, the sun is shining down through the clouds. In the foreground are a coat of arms, several books, laboratory instruments, and other objects. Painted by...