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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