Cartes de visite photograph of Frank Hastings Hamilton from page 7 of an anonymous album. Hamilton served in the Civil War as a surgeon. His unique collection of surgical specimens was bequeathed to the Army Medical Museum at Washington.
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Cartes de visite photograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes from page 15 of an anonymous album. Holmes was a physician, poet, and essayist who established the contagiousness of puerperal sepsis before Semmelweiss.
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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...
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...
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...
Cartes de visite photograph of Austin Flint, Jr., from page 13 of an anonymous album. Flint was a pioneer American professor of physiology and wrote the five-volume "The Physiology of Man."
Part of an album of 23 small formal photographs of...