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.
Dr. Beard was virologist at the Duke University School of Medicine from 1937 to 1973. This was taken around the time of his University of Chicago graduation (BS) in 1925.
Bookplate: An elderly man in a long coat examines the tongue of a mask. A table with instruments and books is to his right. Curieux es Arts. Artiste es Cures.
Bookplate: A young man holds a jar aloft. To his lower right and left are heraldic shields of Hohenfeld and Mainbernheim, respectively. On upper left and right are anatomic cross-sections.
A tree serves as a caduceus with a serpent wound around the trunk. The branches are hands, one holding a flower, another a globe. At the top is an eye.
Bookplate: Aesculapius with staff in a medallion surrounded by a border with a stag pursued by a hunter with gun, a chemical retort, and a raven. On verso is 04047.
Bookplate: A gowned trio works in an operating room. Behind them is a profile of a head of a large skeleton, inside of which is a seated woman pointing to a location in the brain.
Bookplate: Seated Eastern male in ethnic dress in a medallion around which is motto: Labeur est mon desduyt. Below two tapeworms form a holder enclosing a mosquito on a pin.
Bookplate: A large long-beaked bird holds a bouquet of flowers, including foxglove and lily-of-the-valley, in its right claw. The left claw grasps a serpent. The image in inscribed inside a circle.
Bookplate: Framed by an elaborate cartouche, a serpent is wound around a heart to form a caduceus. Below the cartouche is a circle divided into equal quarters; in each section is either an animal or a barrel.
Bookplate: A woman is seated in a large armchair holding a child on her lap. The doctor in a white coat leans forward and looks in the child's mouth. A desk lamp with a caduceus base illuminates an open book in the foreground and a book case with...
Bookplate: A surgeon operates in the background. The grim reaper is in the foreground. A book is open to an image of a snake curled around a chalice to form a caduceus.
Bookplate: Physician in robes holds in his left hand a large urine flask for a crowd of four men to examine. One man is on crutches with a bandaged right leg.