Photograph of Florence Nightingale. Manuscript note underneath: "About aet. 30, i. e., see Cook's Life vol. I p. 394." From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D., No. 23.
Photograph showing a control panel for a hyperbaric unit. A man is seated at the instrument panel in front of the unit. Photographs of five medical staff are included around the edges of the photograph. Photographed by Thad W. Sparks, Duke...
Number of physicians gathered around a table in an elegant drawing room. One is speaking with great fervor, others are listening, sleeping, talking to another, or daydreaming. By Geyer, engraved by Payne.
Photograph taken at the dedication of the Wilmer Institute of Johns Hopkins in October, 1929. Left to right, seated: Fuchs, De Schweinitz; standing: Parsons, Wilmer.
Photograph of Thomas R. Boggs, Chief of Medicine at Baltimore City Hospitals. Note on verso indicates that Dr. Boggs was one of Osler’s staff at Johns Hopkins. Presentation inscription: “To my young colleague, Wiley D. Forbus, with sincere...
Portrait of Ure looking straight ahead with his body turned slightly to the right. Engraved by R. Roffe from an original painting by Daniel McNee, for the Mechanics Magazine vol. XXVII. Published Dec. 1st 1837 by W. A. Robertson, Peterborough...
Portrait of Benjamin Rush sitting at a desk. Engraved by R. W. Dodson from a painting by T. Sully in possession of Richard Bush Esqr. Facsimile signature.
Autographed photo of Janos Bokay with presentation inscription in German to Dr. Wilburt C. Davison. Signature of W. C. Davison on back of framed photograph. Gift of Jay Arena, M.D. May, 1967.
Leake writing with a pencil, looking at his writing rather than at the camera. Presentation inscription: "For Henry Schuman, God bless him, the most erudite, generous and genial of all book and cheese lovers! Ides of March-for which no fear! 1943...
Portrait of Albert John Ochsner wearing glasses, in three-quarters right profile. Photographed by Adolf Eckstein. Facsimile signature.
Publisher: Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Portrait of Paul Ehrlich in his laboratory. He appears to have been the first to appreciate the importance of megaloblastosis in primary anemias. Painted by Homer Hill.
Picture of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Included in foreground are a book, a cup and a pair of scissors. The border includes columns with ivy, butterflies, and flowers. Text in Latin.
Portrait of William Osler from the lithograph by George Black. Osler is seated in a chair with his right elbow on a table. Signature: “Sincerely yours Wm Osler.”
Dedication ceremonies for the Seeley G. Mudd building on the lower terrace outside the Searle Center. Dr. Ewald Busse, Director of Medical and Allied Health Education, at the podium with (from left to right): Dr. Robert D. Fisher, Dr. Lewis...
The Seeley G. Mudd building from the top of Duke North. The Duke University Medical Center Library occupies the upper four floors. Duke Chapel is visible to the right in the distance. View 2.
Front view of the exterior of the Duke University Medical Center Library before the covered walkway was built. Duke North is visible in the background.
Interior views of the Duke University Medical Center library: Digital scanning workstation in the History of Medicine Reading Room. Gayle Elmore is at the keyboard.
Hand colored diagram of the arterial system in a Persian treatise on anatomy by Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad. This is a seventeenth century copy of a late fourteenth century manuscript.
Cartes de visite of James Young Simpson from page 34 of Sharpey's Album. Photographed by E. Dallas.
Part of an album of eminent scientists, surgeons, etc. with a collection of autographed letters and 17 small formal photographs.
Publisher:...
Cartes de visite photograph of Valentine Mott from page 2 of an anonymous album. Mott was the father of American vascular surgery.
Part of an album of 23 small formal photographs of physicians.
Publisher: New York: J. Gurney & Son,...
Oil portrait of Valentine Mott, M.D. who was a pioneer vascular surgeon famous for ligation of great vessels for aneurysm. He was considered the leading American surgeon of the first half of the nineteenth century.
Picture of Louis Pasteur in his laboratory. He is standing near a table holding some glassware in his hand. Other glassware is shown on the table. Painted by A. Edelfelt in 1885. Text at bottom: "Entered according to act of Congress in the year...
Bookplate: Young girl with a flower in her right hand sits on a grassy hillside. Against a mountain backdrop two children carry an oversized crutch. An arch of roses frames the scene with a serpent and bowl on the right and an owl and books below.
Picture showing the bust of a man's head surrounded by a circular border with a shelf of books and other objects below. A caduceus is shown at the top of the sheet. Presented by the Dental Class of 1939. Drawn by Leslie Victor Smith.