Historical Images In Medicine

The Medical Center Library’s Historical Images in Medicine (HIM) collections encompass over 3,000 photographs, illustrations, engravings, and bookplates from the history of the health and life sciences. Special collections in HIM include Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia, the Bookplates, the Four Season and the Stewart Album. In the past the HIM images were only retrievable by our History of Medicine Collections staff, but they are now available via the Internet. The Web versions of the images are not publication quality, nor are they intended for such use. If you see images you would like to incorporate into your publications, please contact the History of Medicine Collections Curator, for information. Grants from The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation and The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation made possible the realization of the Historical Images in Medicine database.

In addition to individual images, The Historical Images in Medicine Collection contains four smaller collections of materials. 1) Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia Das ist Augendienst; 2) The Bookplate Collection; 3) The Four Seasons; and 4) The Stewart Album.

Subcollections (4)

Total Works (2040)

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Painting of Sir Frederick Grant Banting

1925
Painting of Sir Frederick Grant Banting, seated and attired in academic regalia with facsimile signature. Banting was one of the discoverers of...
 

Coat of Arms of James Young Simpson

June 23, 1903
Extensive manuscript note on verso indicates that this is a photograph of coat of arms of James Young Simpson, given to H. A. K. by Miss Eve...
 

World War I picture from John Ridlon

1916
Two women walking away from the camera, into the camp. Group of men at a truck visible in the background. Publisher: Plattsburgh
 

Benjamin Thompson, Graf von Rumford

Unknown
Portrait of Benjamin Thompson, Graf von Rumford. Painted by G. Dillis and engraved by Jos. Selb.
 

Iris Germanica

undated
Picture of Iris Germanica. Text in Latin and German. From Leonhart Fuchs's herbal.
 

Veronica Mas

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Picture of Veronica Mas. Text in Latin and German. From Leonhart Fuchs's herbal.
 

Cassvtha

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Picture of Cassvtha. Text in Latin and German. From Leonhart Fuchs's herbal.
 

Ioanes Taylor, Medicus, in optica expertissimus, multisque in academiis celeberrimis membrum &c &c XXX anno

1735
Portrait of Taylor, three-quarters left profile. Text in Latin. Drawn from life and engraved by Ph. Endlich.
 

Florence Nightingale Memorial

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Photograph of the Florence Nightingale Memorial in Liverpool, England; Charles J. Allen, sculptor. From the collection of Howard A. Kelly, M.D.,...
 

Florence Nightingale

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Half-portrait of Florence Nightingale, done in her last days. Copied from a drawing from memory by Augustin Rischy. From the collection of Howard...