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The collection is open for research.
Joseph Lyon Miller donated his collection of books, prints, and manuscripts to the Richmond Academy of Medicine in 1932. The collection remained in the Richmond Academy of Medicine Building until May of 1988, when it was placed on long-term loan at the Virginia Historical Society. In 2021, Virginia Commonwealth University purchased the collection from the Richmond Academy of Medicine and moved it from the Virginia Museum of History and Culture (former Virginia Historical Society) to VCU.
Richmond Academy of Medicine Joseph Lyon Miller Collection of prints, 17th-20th century, 2021.06.006, Special Collections and Archives, Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries purchased the collection in 2021.
Upon receipt of the collection VCU SCA staff inventoried and rehoused the collection. They removed acidic backing and enclosures when possible and unframed the silhouettes and other items for preservation purposes.
When on loan to the Virginia Historical Society, the staff assigned the accession number, 2003.300, to the print collection, and numbered each individual item (e.g., 2003.300.1, 2003.300.2, etc.). The staff at VCU retained the individual item number assigned by the VHS and kept the physical collection in the original numeric order. Prints are housed in groups of 25 per folder. Any oversized prints are stored in large print boxes, and their location is noted on an item removed list in the original folder. To facilitate easier access, the finding aid contents list is arranged alphabetically. There are a small number of prints without an item number. These were either unaccessioned framed items or were part of a portfolio labeled "Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden" that were never individually numbered.
Dr. Joseph Lyon Miller, son of James Henderson Miller and Finetta Ann Lyons Miller, was born at Beech Hill in Mason County, West Virginia on 10 October 1875. Educated locally before enrolling at Barboursville College in neighboring Cabell County, Miller also attended the University of Nashville prior to moving east in September of 1897 for medical school. Miller completed the three-year program at the University College of Medicine in 1900. Following graduation, he accepted a position as assistant to the chief surgeon and medical director of the Davis Coal and Coke Company. Around 1904, he moved to Ashland, Kentucky and established a private medical practice for 18 months before returning to Thomas, West Virginia. Miller resumed his association with Davis Coal and Coke and became medical director in his own right in 1917. In this same period, he also held the role of surgeon for the Western Maryland Railroad. During World War I, Miller served in the U.S. Volunteer Medical Corps as the medical director for mine operations in his area of West Virginia.
Miller married Pamelia Dorcas Hampton of Ashland, Kentucky on 3 June 1902 and the couple had three children: twin boys born in 1903 and a son born in 1906. This son, John Hampton Miller would follow his father into medicine and graduate from the Medical College of Virginia in 1932.
An active member of his community, Miller served as a member of the town council, as mayor of Thomas, and as president of the local board of health. He was a 32nd degree Mason. Within organized medicine, Miller remained active with the local medical organization, the West Virginia Medical Society, and the Southern Medical Association. His contributions to the medical literature consisted primarily of historical works, his major hobby and passion.
Early in his career, he began publishing in state historical publications and was widely known for his local history and genealogical work. He published several book-length genealogies that remain valuable today. Miller's medical practice provided him with the discretionary income to build a historical library related to the history of Western medicine. Over the years, he built a significant collection by establishing relationships with rare book dealers in Europe and by making purchases without ever leaving the United States. In 1932, Miller donated this valuable collection of over 6,000 books, prints and manuscript items to the Richmond Academy of Medicine after it had constructed a permanent home with an appropriate library. Miller continued collecting, writing, and researching after relinquishing his collection to the Academy. He donated other books, manuscripts, and images to various historical and medical libraries across the southeast. In 1930, the Medical College of Virginia honored him by conferring the doctor of letters degree.
Miller died on 5 January 1957 and is buried in his wife's family plot in the Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Kentucky.
The Richmond Academy of Medicine Joseph Lyon Miller Collection of prints consists of engravings, lithographs, photographs, prints, and silhouettes dating from the 17th to 20th centuries that are related to the history of medicine. Many of the items were initially included in publications while others were issued as individual prints. The highlight of the collection is the silhouettes of American and British physicians. These silhouette portraits were cut from life and date from 1750 to 1850. A number of prominent silhouettists are represented including Charles Wilson Peale, William H. Brown, and Auguste Edouart.
The print collection includes likenesses of physicians from the United States, Great Britian, and western Euopean countries. There is also a small section of prints of Greek, Roman, and Islamic physicians. The collection is a good source for studying perceptions of medicine in the 17th and 18th centuries in particular. The artists' selection of iconography is varied and often more interesting than the individual depicted in the print. The photograph section includes a number of rarer images of Virginia physicians, some photographs of painted portraits and others photographic copies of original images. The photograph section also includes images of physicians' homes, hospitals, and medical schools. There are a number of medical caricatures represented in the collection as well as medical art prints.
The collection is arranged in four sections: Prints--people, prints--other, photos, and silhouettes. Within each section, items are arranged in numerical order according to individual item numbers. These numbers were assigned by the Virginia Historical Society when processing the collection while in their custody.
There are a small number of prints without an item number. These were either unaccessioned framed items or were part of a portfolio labeled "Holland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden" that were never individually numbered.
To facilitate easier access, the finding aid contents list is arranged alphabetically.
Lithograph, published as a Vanity Fair Supplement.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on February 16, 1889.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on February 20, 1875.
Lithograph, Vanity Fair, October 15, 1887.
Dr. Pinel stands in a open area of the Hospital of Salpêtrière next to an ill woman who is being assisted by another man. Another woman kneels next to Dr. Pinel and kisses his hand. On the right side several ill woman lean against the support beams of a building.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on September 12, 1874.
Lithograph, published in Vanity Fair on August 5, 1876.
Lithograph, from Vanity Fair on May 1, 1902.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on November 20, 1899.
Lithograph, Vanity Fair, October 30, 1902. Color.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on May 17, 1894.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on October 1, 1892.
Lithograph, Vanity Fair, December 18, 1875. Color print.
Lithograph, Vanity Fair, February 12, 1876.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on June 19, 1886.
Lithograph, Vanity Fair, August 4, 1888. Color print.
Lithograph, Vanity Fair, December 22, 1888.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on October 11, 1894.
Lithograph, Vanity Fair, February 19, 1902.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on December 18, 1880.
Lithograph, published by Vanity Fair on May 7, 1887.
Photographic print taken at the Tri-State Medical Association in Spartanburg, SC in February 1921. Dr. J. P. Munroe of Charlotte, NC was President at the time. The man who submitted the photograph was J. K. Hall and was secretary-treasurer at the time. All the men in the photograph other than the current president were former presidents of the association. Dr. A. E. Baker (Charleston, SC), Dr. J. Howell Way (Waynesville, NC), Dr. J. P Munroe (Charlotte, NC), Dr. Rolfe E. Hughes (Laurens, SC), Dr. Joseph A. White (Richmond, VA), Dr. LeGrand Guerry (Columbia, SC), Dr. Stuart McGuire (Richmond, VA), Dr. Albert Anderson (Raleigh, NC), Dr. J. N. Upshur (Richmond, VA), Dr. Southgate Leigh (Norfolk, VA), Dr. J. Allison Hodges (Richmond, VA), Dr. R. C. Bryan (Richmond, VA).
19th century.
19th century
19th century
18th century.
18th century.
Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford.
15th-16th century.
Swedish surgeon.
Of Banchory, editor and translator of "The Extant Works of Aretaeus."
From Lowville, NY.
Graduate of University of PA in 1777. Pennsylvania Physician.
Botanist.
19th century.
Professor of medicine, 19th century.
19th century.
18th-19th century.
"The Agnew Clinic" depitcts Dr. Agnew works on a man with three assisting doctors and a nurse. He works in the center of circular stadium. Five rows of men sit watching Dr. Agnew, his patient, and his staff.
From a woodcut.
15th-16th century.
19th century.
18th century.
Botanist, 18th century.
Page from a book with image and text.
19th century.
Medical doctor and professor of anatomy. Four prints
Albosius, IV. "Anno Christi," mounted on matboard.
Unknown alchemist in meditation sitting at desk surrounded by clutter.
Professor of University of Bologna. Illustrator of Discovery of Galvani.
Royal College of Surgeons.
Born in Bologne, professor of Botany in the University of Bolgne.
Maryland.
19th century.
Professor of Anatomy in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College.
18th century.
19th century.
College President.
Italian porfessor of Medicine. Physician.
Physician, chemist.
19th century.
15th century.
Print of Dr. Garrett Anderson, shows a woman standing at a desk, a London School Board plaque in the background.
18th century.
19th century
French physician.
18th century.
Italian chemist and physician.
Physician at Westminster Hospital.
16th century.
1728
Physician and Professor at Padua.
17th century.
Italian doctor and professor at Pisu, Naples, and Rome.
Aristotle, 384-322 B.C., thought the heart had three chambers and the arteries contained air.
A print of a bust of Aristotle (384-321 B. C.).
Inventor of spectacles.
18th century. Surgeon in Revolutionary War.
18th century.
Page from a book with text and image.
19th century
Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. Professor of Surgery in King's College, London.
First to use colored plates. Described the lacteals of mysentery.
18th century.
17th century.
Professor of Medical Chemistry in the Medical Department of Pennyslvania College.
19th century.
19th century.
Chapters in Canon on anatomy.
Illegible handwriting on back.
Physician.
19th century
Professor of Chemistry in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.
Chemistry Professor.
18th century.
17th century.
19th century.
19th century
Professor of anatomy at Rome. Distinguished between smooth and striated muscle. Mounted on paper.
Philosopher and Doctor.
19th century
Physician.
18th century.
18th-19th century.
French physician.
18th century.
Silhouette. Black profile image on white background.
19th century.
15th century.
18th century.
Inventor of the Safety Lamp. 18th-19th century.
First President of the NJ Medical Society.
Titled "Bones." From Vanity Fair supplement.
18th century.
Physician to His Majesty's Household, Sir Thomas Barlow, Bt., Vanity Fair Supplement
19th century
Botanist.
Student in Chemistry, Metaphysics, Natural and Occult Philosophy.
Surgeon, author of history and antiquities of Bristol.
19th century
Physician. Rare.
"There is no man of greater weight than in his profession." From Vanity Fair.
Titled "A Literary Oculist." From Vanity Fair.
Professor of Anatomy. Occulist for Joseph II of Vienna. Lectured on opthalmology.
His Anatomia is one of the most popular 17th century books. Bartholin's glands are named after him.
Homer H. Bartlett, M.D.
16th century.
Professor in the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History, and Botany.
17th century.
German. 1905.
19th century
19th-20th century.
M.D. 1799.
19th century.
19th century.
17th century.
Introduced the terms areola and phrenic nerve.
Chemist and philosopher.
18th century.
19th century
Richmond, VA was President of the Virginia Medical Society.
18th century.
M.D. Member of the Continental Congress. 18th century.
Pioneer American physiologist.
17th century.
Professor of medicine at Paris.
19th century
Professor of anatomy.
19th century
18th century.
19th century
Physician.
17th century.
19th century
18th century.
Surgeon, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
18th century.
18th century
18th century
19th century
19th century surgeon.
Described the kidney (tubules of Bellini).
Doctor, a voyager, and a zoologist.
"Vita del B. Filippo Benizzi."
19th century. "The Doctor."
James Benwell, of the physic gardens, Oxford, 18th century.
19th century.
17th century.
19th century
Pioneer of aseptic surgery.
19th century
From European Magazine.
Medical doctor. Two prints, both are head and shoulders views.
19th-20th century.
19th century.
17th century.
19th century
16th century.
19th century.
15th century.
President American Medical Association, 1918-1919.
A title page from a book on Johan Van Beverwiicks, written by Jan Jacobsz Schipper in 1652.
Prrofessor at Dordrecht.
Pharmacist.
17th century.
Approached anatomy from the standpoint of the tissues
Professor of anatomy and medicine.
Plates represent best in anatomical illustration.
Dutch botanist
19th century.
19th century.
President of the American Medical Association.
19th century.
First Lecture on Phrenology.
19th century
Physician, mathamatician, and astronomer.
Surgeon to the prince regent, 19th century.
New York.
J. A. Birelli. 1878.
19th century.
M.D. of Missouri.
Physicist and chemist, professor at University of Edinburgh.
18th century.
17th century.
17th century.
19th century
19th century.
Two prints labeled Stephanus Blancardus; both are head and shoulders views. The doctor has long wavy hair. Under one print: "Ein Hollaendischer Arzt, lebte van Ende, des 17 und zu Anfang des 18 Jahre hunderts."
Doctor and professor of medicine.
19th century. President Garfield's Doctor in Washington.
Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service.
M.D. President of the American Medical Association, 1916-1917.
Professor of Medicine. Studied anatomy, physiology, and medicine.
17th century.
1851
M.D., New York.
Image of a monument to Salvtifero Boerhaavii.
19th century
18th century.
19th century.
19th century
The print is in a folder written in German. He showed that pores in the skin were not openings of blood vessels.
18th century
Bonnett, of Geneva.
Italian Physician.
He was a professor in Leydon and described dysentary in Java.
16th century.
Physician to Henry VIII.
Professor in University of Messina in Pisa.
17th century.
Two prints.
18th century.
Botanist and zoologist.
Member of the Royal Institute of France.
19th century.
19th century
Bostick, 1773-1846.
19th century
New York Physician.
18th-19th century.
Professor of Medicine.
16th century.
Physician. 19th century.
Physician.
French midwife.
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
17th century.
17th century.
17th century.
Admiral William C. Braisted. Surgeon General, United States Navy.
Medical Corps, United States Navy. President of the American Medical Association, 1920-1921.
19th century
19th century.
15th century.
16th century.
19th century
17th century.
19th century
French physician.
New York.
19th century.
Physician.
19th century
19th century.
19th century.
18th century.
Founder of Brunonian Symbium.
20th century. Picture from National Cyclopedia of American Biography; James T. White & Co. New York.
18th century.
Professor of anatomy. 19th century.
19th century
19th century
Professor in Paris.
M.D. of Chicago.
17th century.
Professor of moral philosophy, University of Edinburgh.
18th century.
17th century.
17th century.
Philadelphia. 1800.
New York.
19th century.
German physician.
18th century.
17th century.
17th century.
President of the American Medical Association, 1907.
18th century
19th century
18th-19th century.
18th century.
18th century
19th century.
Of Philadelphia. Studied with Dr. Benjamin Rush.
17th century.
19th century.
19th century.
19th century
19th century.
18th century.
Doctor, NY.
17th century.
A medical doctor.
President American Medical Association, 1908-1909.
Ohio. 19th century.
Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in Oglethorpe Medical College, Savannah, Georgia.
19th-20th century.
18th century.
18th century.
19th century
15th century.
16th century.
17th century.
17th century. Founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Professor.
Doctor. Professor of Anatomy at Bologne.
19th century
A professor of surgery.
"Ioach: Babeberg: Filius Med. Doctor et Botanicus celeberr."
Physician, botanist.
Paragraph in German beneath the image.
Surgeon.
19th century
Camper's fascia is named for him.
Botanist
Russian writing in the corners.
19th century
18th-19th century.
Surgeon in Milano, Italy.
19th century
15th-16th century.
Professor at Milan and Paris.
Bayern,19th century.
Anthony Carlisle, 1768-1840. Mounted inside a matboard frame.
19th century
19th century
Burlington, NJ was purser of US Navy.
First to vaccinate in Switzerland.
19th century
19th century
16th-17th century.
Oliver Wendell Holmes called his anatomical tables "eviscerated beauties."
Botanist.
Naturalist.
19th century.
19th century
Copper engraving of one of the works of Jacob Cats. "The child of two ugly parents resembles the beautiful figure at which the mother looked during her pregnancy. By Adrien Pietersz. (1589-1662)"
19th century
17th or 18th century. "Medicus Marpurg [?]."
Medical historian.
Doctor and professor.
first century.
19th century
19th century
16th century.
19th century.
17th century.
Physician in ordinary to Her Majesty.
19th century
18th century.
Professor of chemistry at Montpelier.
Chemist.
Pharmacist.
19th century
Three prints.
19th century
Physician.
18th century.
Osteographia show boxes of natural size.
Founder of Chetham Hospital, Manchester, 17th century.
Chemist.
18th century.
M. D. of Warrenton, Virginia.
Physician in the time of the Argonauts.
18th century.
French surgeon and anatomist.
Professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh, 19th century.
Professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh, 19th century.
19th century
19th century, wrote on obstetrics.
A print of a bust of Cicero.
16th century.
Naples.
Italian physician and botanist.
17th century.
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
1661
Father of Sir C. Mansfield Clarke Bast, M.D.
18th century.
Doctor of of anatomy and a zoologist.
18th-19th century.
1866
19th century
Apotheker. Profile of face. 1803
19th century.
Italian physician.
18th century.
18th century.
18th century.
20th century.
Professor of Medical Botany. Author of Botanic Guide to Health and Treatise on Midwifery.
19th century. Professor of Medical Botany.
19th century
18th century.
T. Cogan.
19th century
19th century.
19th century.
"proof before letters, very scarce."
18th century
18th century
19th century
19th century.
19th century
16th century.
15th-16th century.
19th century
18th-19th century. From Biographie des Hommes du Jour.
Surgeon.
Chemist.
17th century.
15th-16th century.
19th century
Surgeon to the King.
Lecturer on anatomy and surgery at St. Thomas's, 19th century.
18th century.
19th century
19th century
Professor of surgery, 19th century.
19th century
18th century.
Surgeon.
19th century
19th century
17th century.
Medical Historian.
18th-19th century.
Physician.
Born in Bologna.
Born in Bologna.
16th-17th century.
16th-17th century.
Physician.
"Medicine Doctor, et Profesf. Ordin in Fredericiana Halenf. Connitatius." (1680-?)
Domenico Cotugno. 1736-1822. Discovered the fluid in the labyrinth.
1763
German writing on the picture.
19th century
Surgeon General to the Forces and Surgeon in Ordinary to Her Majesty in Ireland.
17th century. Professor of Medicine.
19th century
19th century.
18th century.
18th century.
Depicts a surgery taking place. It is a reproduction.
15th century.
Print of three doctors, left to right, Joachim Cameran, 1534-1598, Christopher Jacob Crew, C. Gessner, 1516-1565.
19th century
A matted color print of Sir William Crookes. Underneath the mat: "This Caricature first appeared in the 19th century. It is reproduced and presented with the compliments of Petrolagar Laboratories, Inc.
19th century.
500 B.C. Stressed primacy of the brain-described optic nerves & eustachean tubes.
18th century.
18th century.
19th century
17th century.
17th century.
17th century.
16th century.
Medical doctor
Cupid, Flora, Ceres, and Esculapius honoring the bust of Linnaeus.
Caricature of Pierre Curie and Marie Sklodowska Curie.
19th century
18th century.
Practiced in Virginia, 1756-1805.
19th century. Lecturer on the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Guy's Hospital.
19th century
18th century, botanist, son of a tanner. Page from a book.
18th century.
Portuguese physician.
17th century.
18th century.
18th century
17th century.
19th century
19th century.
19th century
19th century
Charleston, SC. 1809.
19th century
16th century.
Harvey's teacher. He described valves of the veins.
Harvey's teacher. He described valves of the veins.
19th century
19th century
19th century
18th century.
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
Caricature of Charles (Robert) Darwin sitting in a green chair.
19th century
lithograph by M. Gauci after E.U. Eddis
Titled "Dietetics." From Vanity Fair.
19th century
19th century
Professor of anatomy, materia medica, therapentic and botany at the University of Virginia.
19th century
19th century
Father of the American Medical Association.
19th century
19th century
Professor.
Zoologist and a paleontologist.
17th century.
French eye doctor.
Three prints.
French naturalist.
19th century
Chemist and an author.
Physician to the Queen.
16th century?
19th century.
Dutch physician.
19th century
Mathamatician.
19th century
Botanist.
French physician.
Botanist and a doctor.
French zoologist.
19th century
19th century
18th-19th century.
19th century
19th century
From a St. Memin portrait.
Scottish botanist.
Early 19th century.
Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Medical Collefe of the State of South Carolina.
18th century. Portrait from National Cyclopedia of American Biography; James T. White & Co. New York.
He was a professor at Utrecht of Anatomie corporis humani.
17th century.
Syracus, NM.
16th century.
19th century
Botanist and physician.
Two prints, a Dutch physician.
18th century
Army surgeon, 18th century.
19th century
19th century
Washington. Born in Boston, MA in 1773.
19th century.
1584. Physician.
Professor of Chemistry and Physiology in the University of NY.
19th century
Providence, RI.
Professor of anatomy at Marbury.
Dryden, from a picture by Hudson in the Hall of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Philadelphia Doctor.
19th century.
French chemist and poet.
19th century
Distinguished French chemist and physiology. Author of several works. Minister of Agriculture in 1850.
19th century
17th century.
18th century.
Savannah, GA.
Author of "Sketches of Upper Canada."
French surgeon.
16th century.
18th-19th century.
French physician.
17th century.
Chicago.
Surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 19th century.
19th century
19th century.
French botanist.
French botanist.
19th century.
18th century.
A photographic print of Landon B. Edwards, M. D. of Richmond, Virginia. The photograph was taken by W. W. Foster.
Born 1800 in Bruges. Studied anatomy, zoology, and physiology. Explanation in French along with print.
19th century
17th century.
19th century
Physician.
19th century
George Emerson, M.D.
Surgeon to the Women's Hospital in New York.
Surgeon to the Women's Hospital in New York.
M.D. Gynecologist at a private hospital for women. President of Irish National Federation of America.
17th century.
19th century
18th century.
17th century.
18th century.
Esculape, 1250 B.C.
18th-19th century.
17th century.
Titled "The Scientific Surgery of Cancer." From Mayfair Supplement.
President of the Southern Medical Association from 1916-1917.
M.D. Rare.
19th century
16th century.
19th century, foreign secretary-1863-64.
18th century.
Named the vagina and the placenta.
19th century
19th century
16th century.
Physician.
19th-20th century.
18th century.
R. Cutler Fergusson, b.1799.
Born near Amiens, France. He was the author of textbooks on pathology, anatomy, physiology, and therapeutics.
Physician to the King of France.
18th-19th century.
19th century
S of T of North America. 19th century.
19th-20th century.
French physician.
Titled "Hard Head." From Vanity Fair.
19th century
19th-20th century.
Lecturer on Physiology and Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh. 19th century.
Physiologist.
19th century
19th century.
Physician.
18th century.
1637
Italian physician.
French minister.
M.D. of NY.
20th century.
By Vallin-Gauter. Painted in color.
Italian naturalist.
17th century.
20th century.
18th century.
Of Philadelphia.
18th century.
French chemistry porfessor.
French chemistry porfessor.
Chemist.
Professor of practical chemistry in University College, London.
Doctor and poet.
French physician.
Anatomist.
John F. Francis.
18th-19th century.
John W. Francis.
Professor at Heidelburg in 1677.
Italian Professor.
18th century.
17th century.
17th century.
19th century
One of the first in England to practice the innoculation of smallpox.
A Master of the Knife, Vanity Fair 1907
French doctor.
18th century
16th century.
16th century.
Physician.
Of Michigan.
17th century.
Physician.
Member of the Academy of Science of Stockholm.
French botanist and zoologist.
Professor.
Print of Galen (131-201). Galen recognized seven cranial nerves, described ductus arteriosus and foramen ovale and gave a good description of the skeleton.
Galen, grouped with other famous physicians, 131-200.
Galienus, 130-201.
16th century.
Jean Joseph Gall.
Physician and medical writer.
NY.
French surgeon, studied anatomy.
17th century.
18th century.
19th century
French scientist known especially for his study of gases.
17th century.
18th century.
c.1652.
Gendrin.
A print of the general plan of the Royal Hospital at Greennich.
Zoologist.
French physician.
19th century
19th-20th century.
Physician and professor.
18th century.
18th century.
Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
MD. Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. 19th century.
17th century.
18th century.
Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children.
Richard Gilpin, 1625-1699.
18th-19th century.
A print of Gioscoides (40-90).
19th century
19th century
18th century.
Senior surgeon Revolutionary Army.
Author. M.D. of Portland, OR.
Professor at Cambridge. He described the liver, Glisson's capsule, and blood supply.
M.D. from the Medical College of London. 18th century.
19th century
Physician.
19th -20th century.
Physician.
19th century
18th century.
19th century
19th century
20th century.
President of the American Medical Association, 1909-1910.
20th century.
Botanist, doctor, and professor at Montpellier.
Lithograph entitled Men of the Day, No. 1298 "Surgical Diagnosis" Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, published by Vanity Fair Supplement.
Regner de Graaf. 1641-1673. Description of the reproductive system. (Graafian follicles).
Dr. F. Graeme of Graeme Park near Philadelphia. Rare.
Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College.
Italian physician.
Italian physician.
19th century
19th century
US Navy. Washington, DC. Physician to Woodrow Wilson.
18th century.
18th century
Pharmacist.
17th century.
18th century.
18th century
18th century.
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
Color image of Dr. Grovesnor, the Great Oxford Surgeon, walking his dog.
Photograph of a group of men on a staircase. Five rows are pictured, with five people in the first row and three people in the fifth. All the men are wearing a suit and a tie and a man on the first row is holding a cane. In a manilla folder with most of the men identified. Photograph by M. Freydeck and dated May 25, 1943.
18th century.
Physician.
German Physician.
Physician. 19th century.
19th century
19th century
19th century
Italian physician. Born in Bologne.
19th century
Founder of Guy's Hospital. Print shows him conferring with Dr. Mead, the physician, and Mr. Stear, the architect, upon the plan of the building.
Doctor to Louis XIV of France.
Dutch
18th century.
Dutch, also Adriaen de Jonghe
19th-20th century.
Sweden
18th century.
From National Geographic Magazine.
18th century.
Lecturer on midwifery and psychology at Guy's Hospital, 19th century.
19th century
Physician in Ordinary to William IV. President of the Royal College of Physicians.
19th century
19th century
Physician to Napoleon I. Helped introduce vaccination.
Physician to Napoleon I. Helped introduce vaccination.
Professor of anatomy at Gottingen.
Philosopher, physician, anatomist, surgeon, and botanist.
17th century.
Dr. Hamilton of Edinburgh, possibly named James or Alexander. 18th century.
Honorary consulting physician of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
18th century.
John Charles Hammerer (1645-1702).
18th century.
19th century
17th century.
18th century.
17th century.
19th century
19th century
Dutch
19th century
R. Harlan.
18th century.
18th century.
19th century, professor at Baltimore College.
18th century.
19th century
19th century
Professor of Medicine.
19th century
C is a magazine clipping
mezzotint, private plate by James MacArdell
Studied the circulation of the blood.
19th century
19th century
Wrote "Food and its Adulterion," 19th century.
Politician and chemist.
19th century
Nathan L. Hatfield.
18th century.
16th-17th century.
18th century.
President of the American Society of Dental Surgeons.
19th century
Surgeon to the king, 18th century.
Balthazar Hebenstreit. 1723.
18th century.
Professor at Altdorf.
18th century.
18th century.
Dutch, 3 prints
Leader of the Chemical School of Medicine.
Surgeon to the Blackburn Dispensary.
18th century.
Physician.
Physician
18th century
Print of Dr. Mitchell Henry. Titled "Home Rule." Consulting physician to Middlesex Hospital. From Vanity Fair.
18th century.
19th century
18th century.
18th century.
Photograph, 19th-20th century.
18th century.
Dutch, 2 prints
Dutch
Of Philadelphia, formerly of London.
German
17th century.
Doctor, Boston.
Professor at Paris.
Dr. Hill of New York. 1798.
19th century
Knight of the Polar Star. First Superintendent of the Royal Gardens of Kew.
Dutch, Text around images syas H. Hillers, teacher in the Remonstran Church, and doctor in Hoorn
A photographic print of Dr. Blanton S. Hillsman by Foster Studio.
19th century
18th century.
A print of a bust of Hippocrates.
A print mounted on paper of Hippocrates (460-370 B. C.) who wrote chapters on articulations and injuries of the head.
Hippocrates refuses to accept gifts. He sits leaning away from the gifts with his hand pushing them away.
A print of a bust of Hippocates (460-370 B. C.).
18th century.
18th century.
20th century.
Physician to Pope Gregory X. Appointed himself Pope John XXI.
Dutch
University of Pennsylvania.
A photographic print of J. Allison Hodges, M. D., president of the Medical Society of Virginia.
19th-20th century.
18th century
Fellow student with Harvey at Padua.
18th century
Professor at Altdorf. Discovered pancreatic duct in a turkey.
17th century.
19th century.
19th century.
Dutch, physician and poet
19th century
19th century.
A color matted print of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Underneath the mat: "This Caricature first appeared in the 19th century. It is reproduced and presented with the compliments of Petrolagar Laboratories, Inc.
19th century
19th century
18th century
18th century.
19th century
German
Dutch
18th century.
18th century.
16th century.
16th-17th century. Dutch physician.
Demonstrated the human thoracic duct.
19th century
19th century
University of Cambridge, United States.
German
19th century.
Physician.
Dutch
19th century
Professor of pathology and practiced medicine, obstetrics and medical jurisprudence at the University of Virginia.
18th century.
18th century.
From a photograph taken about 1865.
18th century.
Samuel B. Howell.
18th century.
18th century.
Physician to Felipe IV. Died in Madrid.
18th century.
Early 19th century.
18th century.
L. Humphreys.
18th century.
Teacher of anatomy, founder of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
18th century.
18th century.
Anatomy of testis. Anatomical theatre.
Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.
19th century
Color lithograph entitled Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson that was published by Vanity Fair on September 27, 1890.
19th century
19th century
17th century.
19th century
19th century
A color matted print of Thomas Henry Huxley. Underneath the mat: "This Caricature first appeared in the 19th century. It is reproduced and presented with the compliments of Petrolagar Laboratories, Inc.
19th century
A print of a silhouette of Hygeia.
Flemish
Artist Luis Jiménez Aranda
16th century.
Graduated Harvard in 1801. First in America to amputate at shoulder joint.
Dutch born
Professor in Parma.
18th century
17th century.
16th century.
Physician and chemist.
New York.
Inventor and scientist. Born in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Professor at Institutes of Medicine in University of Pennsylvania.
A. Jacobi. President of the American Medical Association from 1912-1913.
19th century.
Of Philadelphia. 1802.
Naturalist.
19th century
Doctor, Pennsylvania. 19th century.
19th century
18th century
18th century.
Print of Surgeon General Jameson in full uniform. Labeled "Army Medical." From Vanity Fair.
"Dr. Jim." From Vanity Fair.
M.D., New York.
18th century.
18th century.
18th century.
18th century.
19th century
Print of Edward Jenner, tending to a child on a chair.
18th-19th century. Physician.
18th century
19th century
16th century.
19th century
Painted by Oliver, 18th century.
19th century
19th century
19th century
19th century
18th-19th century. Physician.
17th-18th century.
University of Aberdeen. Lived under reign of Charles I.
17th century.
19th century
18th century.
Patriot and physician.
Inventor of the Spinal Stays and Apparatus for Relieving and Curing Distortion of the Spine.
Doctor, Chicago.
18th-19th century.
16th century.
M.D., Massachusetts.
French chemist.
16th century.
18th century. Professor of Botany of the National Institute.
President of the Queen's College, Cork.
18th century.
Doctor of Pennsylvania.
19th century president of the College of Surgeons.
19th century
19th century
19th-20th century.
Lord Kelvin. 19th-20th century.
Dutch, physican and missionary
Physician and poet.
Doctor, Pennsylvania.
Doctor and dentist.
M.D., Ohio.
18th century.
Professor of Surgery in Yale College.
20th century.
18th century.
17th century.
German, physician and poet
19th century
19th century
18th century.
18th century
16th century.
Popular anatomist at Dantzig.
19th century.
19th century.
Dutch, 2 prints
17th century.
French surgeon.
18th century
Naturalist.
19th century
19th century
Botanist, predecessor to Darwin in biology.
1612
18th-19th century.
19th century
M. V. F. Lamourouse (1779-1825). French naturalist, botanist, and zoologist.
18th century
1716
19th century
18th century.
Surgeon to Napoleon III.
Professor of Chemistry at Williams College.
19th century. French surgeon.
Image circa 1780.
19th century
Of New Port in the Deleware. Died in Philadelphia Dec 19, 1819.
Physician.
18th-19th century.
19th century
Professor and chemist.
Surgeon Extraordinary to the Queen. 18th-19th century.
18th century.
18th century.
18th century.
18th century.
18th century.
Page from a book.
stipple and line engraving after Lewis
Anatomist and surgeon.
Magazine clipping from The Medical Pickwick.
Surgeon and dentist.
Obstitrician.
19th century
Louis Francois Lebut.
Three prints. A botanist and a professor.
19th century
18th century.
18th century.
An early microscopist who described spermatozoa. The print is mounted on mattboard.
Dutch.
19th century
Physician. Member of the Academy of Sciences.
18th century.
19th century
18th century. U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania.
19th century. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania.
1685. Naturalist and physician.
18th century
19th century
Nicolas Lemery.
Dutch
19th century
Early 19th century.
Providence, RI.
19th century
Naturalist to the King.
Physician. Professor at the University of Edimbourg.
Physician.
19th century
19th century
Doctor and scientist. 18th century.
19th century
17th century.
18th-19th century.
Improved the obstetrical forceps.
19th century
19th century
French Chemist.
19th century
First president of the Royal College of Physicians, 17th century.
17th century.
From Brunswick, ME.
Dutch physician, botanist, author and librarian
Professor of Botany at the London University. Botanist.
American physican and politician (Missouri)
7 prints, botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician
19th century
photogravure (9356)
Knight and doctor of physic, 1646.
Surgeon. Very rare.
1877
19th century
Rare Thatcher.
18th-19th century.
18th century.
Obstetric Physician to Queen Victoria.
German surgeon.
18th century.
US Senator.
Chancellor of the University of Paris.
Discoverer of anaesthesia.
19th century.
Surgeon general, 19th century.
18th century.
19th-20th century.
Author of Popular Physiology and Algiers and Barbary. Assistant surgeon under East India Company.
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, 18th century.
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, 18th century.
18th century
German
Either a Belgian or French physician.
19th century
Born at Metz. The first to use the scissors in extirpation of the globe. He advised removal of the lachrymal gland in this operation.
16th century.
19th century
17th century.
19th century
Dutch physican, astrologer
16th century.
19th century
19th century
Spanish Philosopher.
Spanish Jew.
19th century
19th century
Sir William MacCormac. Titled "Gun Shot Wounds." From Vanity Fair.
19th century
One of the founders of the Medical University of Maryland.
John Machie (1748-1831).
19th century
19th century.
mezzotint by Lupton after Gordon, 1838
Irish refugee. He was professor of midwivery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and later entered the field of chemistry. He also was a physician.
Author and physician, M.D. Glasgow, 1825.
French M.D.
19th century
Member of the Corporation of Surgeons. 18th-19th century.
J. G. Maisonneuve.
Surgeon.
Professor of medicine and surgery.
19th century
Demonstrated the capillary link in the circulation.
French Physician.
18th-19th century.
Physician to the Queen. 19th century.
Physician. 19th century.
Flemish. Fol., mezzo. by Sebastian Barras after Van Dyck
French physician.
Surgeon.
French surgeon. Born in Calais.
French physician.
19th century
19th century
1683
Optician, 18th century.
19th century
18th century.
Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge.
Professor of anatomy.
First account of the prostate. Accurate description of choriod plexus, seat of the soul. Italian anatomist.
17th century.
18th century.
Italian author and physician. Died in Florence.
19th century
17th century.
Senior member of College of Physicians, 18th century.
19th century
1680
19th century
18th-19th century.
16th century.
Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine.
President of the American Medical Assocation from 1917-1918.
President of the American Medical Association from 1906-1907.
Titled "Philosophers of the Last century." 18th century.
19th century
19th century
19th century
A photographic print of a painting.
Member of Federal Convention.
Silhouette picture on a man with a hat facing to the right. A background of an archway is lightly drawn. The bottom left hand corner reads "James McClury".
19th century
Army surgeon.
19th century
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Medical College of VA.
19th-20th century.
Photograph of the statue of Hunter Holmes McGuire, President of the American Medical Association.
A bust of Malcolm McHardy, M.D. 1900.
Burlington, NJ.
1750. Scarce.
19th century
President of the American Medical Association from 1905-1906.
Edinburgh. 18th century.
19th century
18th century. Mounted on matboard.
18th century.
Physician in Ordinary to His Majesty.
Taught anatomy in Berlin and is known for Meckel's diverticulum.
18th century.
A Copy of Medieval Epidemics-The "Decameron"-Boccaccio's Florentine Story-tellers during the plague in the 14th century.
19th century
18th century.
Glands of the eyelid.
19th century
19th century. Professor of Medicine and Diseases of Women and Children at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.
Inventor.
18th century.
Sir W. Jenner. Men of the Day. "Physic." From Vanity Fair.
Lithograph, Men of the Day, No. 37, Homoeopathic Society that appeared in Vanity Fair on January 20, 1872.
Lithograph entitled Men of the Day, No. 57, Old Bones from Vanity Fair, March 1, 1873.
19th century chemist.
17th century.
Hieronimus Mercurialis (1530-1606). Professor of Bologne, Padua, and Pisa. First of modern physicians to recommend to medical gymnastics. Author of first treatise on skin disease (1570-Venice).
18th century
18th century.
M.D. Author and physician.
19th century
19th century
Dutch Opthalmologist
Dutch naturalist, theologian
17th century.
19th century
Botanist.
18-19 century.
Attending Physician from 1806-1812.
Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, 19th century.
Professor at Oxford, 18th century.
19th century
19th century
19th century.
19th century
Professor of Chemistry at Columbia, NY.
Royal Universtiy of Berlin
Professor.
Physician.
French physician and botanist.
Professor of Principles of Medicine and Clinical Medicine at the Washington University of Baltimore, Maryland.
Sen. M.D.
Professor of anatomy and surgery at Edinburgh.
Physician at Chelsea Hospital.
Italian physician.
Professor of surgery.
19th century
18th century.
18th century.
Professor
Surgeon.
19 century.
Professor of anatomy at Padua and the founder of pathology.
Painting in Philadelphia.
Physician and professor of mathematics. By N. Poilly.
The Hygeist.
Botanist at Aberdeen.
18th century
19th century.
"The Hygeist."
Dutch
19th century
17th century.
19th century
M. D. Surgeon Dentist, Boston, Administering Ether Preparatory to Performing the Operation by which He First Discovered and Demonstrated the Marvelous Anaesthetic Powers of Ether in Surgery
19th century
19th century surgeon.
19-20th century.
Mid-19th century.
19th century.
Professor of Surgery in the University of NY.
18th-19th century
18th century.
Italian physician.
19th century
Yale College. President of the Medical Society of Connecticut.
19th century.
19th century.
19th century.
Founder of the College of Chemistry in Liverpool.
Dutch
President of the National Medical Society.
Mid-19th Century.
Teacher of anatomy at Leipzig.
19th century
19-20th Century.
19th century.
19th century
Professor. 1870.
1617
President of the Royal Society of London.
17th century.
Dutch
Surgeon of the Hospital from 1836- 1863.
Surgeon to the Charter Home.
Dutch anatomist with the Canal of Nuck named after him.
Professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College.
German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist
19th century
"Only a Dream," a doctor sits at his desk looking at a book, in the background a woman lies dead on a table while four other men examine her.
19th century
19th century
Last picture taken a week or two before his last illness.
Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford University. Editor of Modern Medicine.
19th century
19th century
Vicor of Edmenton, Middlesex, 1795.
A color matted print of Sir Richard Owen. Underneath the mat: "This Caricature first appeared in the 19th century. It is reproduced and presented with the compliments of Petrolagar Laboratories, Inc.
Professor at Leyden. He wrote de humani corporis ossibus.
A color matted print of Sir James Paget, Bart. Underneath the mat: "This Caricature first appeared in the 19th century. It is reproduced and presented with the compliments of Petrolagar Laboratories, Inc.
Italian physician.
19th century
Professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College.
17 century.
19th century
Blaise Pascal.
19th century
1662
17th century.
Professor of anatomy in Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania.
1802
English botanist.
Taught medicine in Philadelphia.
19th century
A matted color print of Louis Pasteur. Underneath the mat: "This Caricature first appeared in the 19th century. It is reproduced and presented with the compliments of Petrolagar Laboratories, Inc.
19th century.
Hydrophobia, Vanity Fair
Professor at Padua.
1662
Physician.
Professor of anatomy in Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania.
Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1808. He later became a professor of philosophy.
Dutch
Chemist.
College of Physicians.
College of Physicians.
Royal College of Physicians, London, 19th century.
French astronomer, Fol., line by Vorsterman after Van Dyck
Chemist, 19th century.
1842
Professor of theory and practice of medicine at Philadelphia College of Medicine.
19th century.
Eminent French Army Surgeon. 19th Century.
Medical essays, anatomist, and architect.
Member of the Academy of Sciences. Professor of anatomy at Paris.
Professor at Paris.
Surgeon and opthamologist.
Surgeon at Paris.
Physician.
Physician. Professor at the School of Medicine in Paris.
Physician. Professor at the School of Medicine in Paris.
19th century
Philip S. Physick was a professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Philip Syng Physick. Born in Philadelphia, PA July 7, 1768. Died 15, 1837. Graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1785, and was given the independent chair of sugery which he held or 13 years. Was called "father of American surgery." First American to be elected Member of the French Academy of Medicine. In 1836 made honorary fellow of Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London.
19th century
1808
French physician.
Son of Col. Pitcairn. Killed at Bunker Hill.
Surgeon.
Professor of natural philosophy in the University of Edinburgh.
Scotch Chemist. President of the Chemical Society.
Dutch
17th century.
Botanist and Traveler.
Botanist.
French physician.
15th century.
Doctor. 18th Century.
Physician.
Naples.
Physician.
First professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Nashville in Tennessee.
17th century.
19th Century.
Professor of Medicine in the University of MD.
Physician and surgeon. Head surgeon of Le Grand Hotel-Dieu of Lyon.
Chests, Vanity Fair 1904
18th century.
18th century.
Charleston, SC.
Surgeon.
19th century
Professor of medicine.
President of the American Medical Association from 1924-1925.
Obstitrician and professor. Director of the Royal Academy of Surgery. 1745-1751.
A print of a bust of Pythagoras.
Physician to Louis XV. Author "Historical Origin and Progress of Surgery in France." Published in Paris in 1749.
Physician to Louis XV. Author "Historical Origin and Progress of Surgery in France." Published in Paris in 1749.
"Lord Beaconsfield's Physician." From Vanity Fair.
19th-20th century.
19th century.
18th century.
Italian physician.
18th-19th Century.
From Newscastle upon Tyne.
Surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital.
Scientist, chemist, and physician.
Professor of anatomy of Leyden.
French physician.
Very Scarce.
Priest and deacon.
19th century.
Oculist. 17th Century.
18th-19th Century.
Zoologist and physician. Member of the Academy of Sciences.
Physician.
Philadelphia. Old photograph of a rare portrait.
Author of the Medical Guide. 19th century.
Bust of Walter Reed. 20th Century army doctor.
19th century.
19th century
Dutch
19th Century.
Physician.
French physician.
Professor of theory and practice of medicine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
19th century
19th Century.
An engraving of William Richardson mounted on board.
French surgeon.
Physician.
19th century.
Dutch anatomy, surgery, obstetrics
19th century
Author of Reflections on the Surgeons Bill, a Treatise on Vaccination, and a Translation of Virgil partly original and partly altered from Dryden and Pitt.
Botanist, anatomist, physician, and professor.
Antagonist of Harvey.
Professor.
Professor at Montpelier.
Surgeon.
19th century.
Member of the Royal College of Physicians and Physician to the Royal Hospital at Greenwood.
Physician.
French botanist.
19th Century.
A. W. Mayo Robson. "Science and Sport." Mayfair and Town Topics.
French physician.
19th Century.
19th Century.
19th century
Professor of Chemistry at University of Pennsylvania.
18th-19th Century.
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania.
19th Century.
French surgeon, professor, naturalist, and zoologist.Rondibilis of Rabelais. Said to have dissected his own son.
French surgeon and naturalist. Rondibilis of Rabelais. Said to have dissected his own son.
Royal University of Berlin.
Anatomist and surgeon. Professor at Turin.
Physician.
19th century
Botanist.
French physician and chemist.
Physician.
Superintendent of the Honorable the East India Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta. Honorary Corresponding Member of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing, and Commerce.
19th century
General front of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.
Professor of Medicine.
19th century
etching, by L.E. Faber (Faber signed)
Son of Dr. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia. Miniature owned by the Ridgeway Society of Philadelphia.
Dentist to the Prince of Wales.
Graduated from Glasgow. Physician at St. Thomas Hospital.
Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. 18th-19th century.
Who had beautifully injected specimens.
2 prints, Dutch botanist, anatomist
Head surgeon at L'Hopital des Invalides.
A print of a sacrifice to Hygiea.
French physician and chemist. Member of the Royal Institute of France.
Zoologist, botanist, and geographer.
19th century
18th-19th Century.
Physician. Professor.
17th century.
Dutch physician.
19th century.
First President of the Medical and Surgical Society. Late 18th century.
18th century.
19th century
Naturalist and physicist.
Swiss naturalist.
19th century.
Physician of Padua.
19th century. Aged 37 in portrait.
19th century
19th Century.
18th-19th Century.
19th Century.
Scarpa's Triangle.
Dutch
Dutch
19th century.
19th century.
18th century.
18th Century.
Dutch polymath
19th century
Dutch
German
Later 18th century.
Dutch
Judge of the High Court of Admiralty. Intimate with Dr. Johnson. On many maritime points his judgements are still the only law.
Dutch
Established the contagiousness of peurperal fever.
German, 2 prints
Physician.
Italian physician.
Physiologist.
Physiologist.
Physician.
Print from book, page 17. Picture at top followed by 4 paragraphs of information.
Discovered pulmonary circulation.
Italian physician. Professor of Anatomy at the University of Naples. Zootomia democritea.
Surgeon.
19th century
Author of General Zoology.
Zoologist, Physician, and Naturalist.
Dr. Alex Barton of South Carolina. Born in Scotland in 1745.
Scientist. Imprisoned for political libel.
Professor of Anatomy to the Royal Academy. Surgeon.
19th century
19th century
Surgeon.
18th century. Member of the Royal College of Physcians in Aberdeen.
Professor of Chemistry at Yale College.
Professor of Chemistry at Yale College.
Professor of Chemistry at Yale College.
Dutch
19th century
19th century
19th-20th century.
19th century
Color print, walking with a large top hat on his head.
American Journal of Obstetrics and Disease of Women and Children. Surgeon, gynocologist, and founder of the Woman's Hospital in New York City.
2338.b is a silhouette
Surgeon, gynocologist, and founder of the Woman's Hospital in New York City.
1817
Surgeon, gynocologist, and founder of the Woman's Hospital in New York City.
Obstetrician.
16th-17th Century.
Flemish
President of the Linnean Society.
19th century.
19th century
19th century.
19th century
19th century
19th century.
Founder and President of the Linaean Society.
19th century
President of the Linnaean Society.
19th century
19th century
Professor of Surgery and the Practice of Physic in Yale College.
Professor at the University of Maryland from 1790- 1840.
18th Century. Surgeon.
Author
18th century
19th century.
1633
Socrates about to be poisoned.
Daniel Charles Solander (1735-1782) and Jospeh Banks (1743-1820). Went on voyage together (1768-1771).
Samuel Soloman, MD (d. 1818).
19th century.
Helped Thomas Jefferson.
Italian anatomist.
Italian physician.
19th century
19th century
Rhinology, Vanity Fair 1902
17th century.
French physician.
19th century
19th century.
19th century
Of Newcastle on Tyne.
19th century
19th century.
19th century
Danish
Professor at Copenhagen. The parotid duct was named for him. He was the first to describe it.
17th century
19th century.
President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in NY.
Professor and surgeon.
Opthamology and Surgery.
Opthamology and Surgery.
18-19th century.
19th century
19th century
German author, poet
19th century
19th century
Of North Carolina.
18-19th century.
German
German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist
Dutch mathematician, astronomer, geographer
President of the Society for Promoting Vaccination.
Physician.
20th century.
20th Century.
Philadelphia quack.
Philadelphia quack.
An expert in minute anatomy. He was the first to describe red blood cells.
Graduated from Vienna. Practiced in Paris. Physician.
19th Century.
Dutch
Late 18th century.
He was a professor at Leyden.
Dutch
19th Century.
Doctor to Henry IV around 1600.
1295
Italian physician.
Italian physician.
Physician.
15th-16th century.
Late Secretary of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Menufactures and Commerce.
19th century.
Member of the Royal Institute of France.
18th century.
18th-19th century.
A husband and child sit at the bed of a sick woman.
Chemist. Member of the Royal Institute of France.
18th-19th century.
Professor of Anatomy in Hahnemahn Medical College of Philadelphia.
M. D. of Richmond, Virginia.
Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow.
15th-16th century.
Titled "Cremation." From Vanity Fair.
From the picture by Ludovico Pogliaghi.
Professor of Chemistry at Glasgow.
Doctor of Pennsylvania.
Public Lecturer on Medical Botany. 19th Century.
First Commisioner of Patents.
17th century.
Botanist.
19th century.
19th Century.
Swedish
Dutch
Member of Philosophical Society and of the Royal Society of Gottingen.
Dutch listed by Miller as C.B. Silanus
19th century.
17th-18th century.
18th-19th century.
19th century.
19th century.
Physician.
19th century.
Leader of French school of botany. Born in Aix en Provence. Author.
French botanist and physician.
French botanist and physician.
Naturalist.
Senior surgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital.
Chemist.
19th century.
Italian physician.
Physician to the Grand Fleet.
18th century.
Dutch surgeon, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt
19th century.
College of Physicians in London.
15th-16th century.
19th century.
19th century.
Included are C.D. Hottenstein, Francis F. Davis, J. Lambert Asay, Wm. T. Humphrey, W.J. Underwood, A. Harshberger, Michael O'Hara, A.C. Blakeslee, and J.L. Morris.
19th century
Italian physician.
Unidentified man clothed in an ornate cloak sits at a table covered in an elegant tablecloth.
A print of an unidentified physician.
18th century.
Chemist.
Swiss Physician.
Danish-Norwegian
French naturalist.
Author of Botanical Parisiense. French botanist and author. Died in Paris.
English physician. 18th century.
German.
19th century
19th century
President of the American Medical Association from 1914-1915.
Chemist. Member of the Academy of Sciences in the Royal Society of London.
16th century.
16th century.
15th-16th century.
17th century.
He was the author of a popular "Anatomia."
Flemish surgeon, anatomist, author
A print of A. Vesalius lecturing a class with a human cadavar.
Flemish 5 prints (2 are oversize)
A print of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1565). His known as the father of modern anatomy. He was the first to complete an accurate anatomical description from human dissection.
16th-17th century.
16th century.
Italian Physician.
Great painter and anatomist. Founder of iconographic and physiologic anatomy.
A color matted print of Rudolph (Ludwig Karl) Virchow. Underneath the mat: "This Caricature first appeared in the 19th century. It is reproduced and presented with the compliments of Petrolagar Laboratories, Inc.
Cellular Pathology, Vanity Fair
photogravure (4257)
Physician.
Dutch physician, botanist, son of Everhardus Vorstius
2 prints, Dutch physician, botanist
M.D. of Chicago.
English Surgeon.
Berlin professor.
Collection of drawings by Dupold Stewart Walker, for the 1935 year book of the Medical College of Virginia. Given to the Academy by Dr. Wyndham Blanton.
19th century.
Botanist.
17th century.
Physician.
18th Century. Quack.
Physician.
19th century.
Occulist.
18th century.
Physician and mathematician.
First Dean of the Medical College of Virginia.
Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at University of Cambridge.
Massachusetts.
Physician of Massachusetts.
1857
18th century.
Dr. James Craik, Dr. Elisha C. Dick, Dr. Gustavus Brown, and Tobias Lear.
Professor of theory and practice of medicine.
18th-19th century.
17th-18th century.
19th century.
Invented the English Diet Drink.
17th century.
Author of NY.
President of the American Medical Association from 1910-1911.
also Paulus Weller a Molsdorf, M.D.
From the Company of Surgeons of London, 1776: Dr. Wellford came to America as a surgeon in the British army, and later settled in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His son, Dr. Beverley Randolph Wellford, moved to Richmond, and in 1853 became president of the American Medical Association. His grandsons, John S. Wellford, and Armistead N. Wellford, were also leading Richmond physicians in the last half of the 19th century.
1867
The Discoverers of Anasthesia.
Discoverer of Anasthesia demonstrated on his own person. Print created on Dec. 11, 1844 in Hartford Connecticut.
Professor of Anatomy and Surgury at Bowdoin College.
Invented the English Diet Drink.
Submaxillary duct named for him. (He described it.)
19th century.
Opthamologist from 1838-1852.
19th century.
19th century.
A print of John Weever (1576- ).
Doctor of Denver, Colorado.
19th century
Pure Food Specialist.
19th century.
19th century.
19th century.
Physician.
19th century.
17th century.
Most exact account of cerebral anatomy up to his time.
Dutch Willmet - 1750-1835, hebraist; Kinker - 1764-1845, poet, philosopher, lawer
19th century
Chemist, religious writer, and M.D. at Edinburgh.
19th century
17th century.
18th century.
19th century
Doctor, Denver, Colorado.
19th century.
Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children in the Medical Dept. of Pennsylvania College.
19th century
Foramen of Winslow.
18th century.
M.D. of Tacoma, Washington.
From The Medical Pickwick.
18th-19th century.
Professor of Anatomy in the Univeristy of Pennsylvania.
Resident Physician from 1832-1834.
18th century.
University of Cottincen.
Better known by his poetical appelation "Peter Pindar, Esq." 18th Century. F
19th century
18th century.
19th century.
Professor of Meterra Medica and Pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania.
M.D. from Pennsylvania.
Professor and Doctor.
18th century.
Joseph Woods. Author of Letters of an Architect. Botanist and Architect.
18th century.
Physician and Botanist.
19th century.
19th century.
19th century.
16th century.
Chemist and physician.
19th century.
Doctor and Surgeon. Physician to the Emperor of France.
19th century
19th century. M. D. of Massachusetts.
18th century.
19th century.
Italian physician.
First physcian elected to the Hospital Staff, Oct. 23, 1751. After being stricken with paralysis, he resigned March 1, 1753. Born in Boston Nov. 15, 1701. Died September 26, 1756.
A clinic by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot at "La Salpêtrière" Hospital in Paris. Dr. Charcot stands lecturing while a man stands next to him holding a woman who has fainted. Other men sit in the audience listening to Dr. Charcot speak.
"A Medical Consultation," an unsigned drawing of doctors in an argument.
"An Accident," a doctor tends to a child's hand in a bar, as people look on.
By William Hogarth.
"An Old English Print," a man sits on a chair as his leg is getting bandaged.
A print of Court Room Barber Surgeons' Hall from a drawing by Hanslip Fletcher, by permission of the Worshipful Company of Barbers.
"Die Eingebildete Kranke," a doctor is checking a woman's pulse.
A doctor sits examining an ill young woman who is propped up in a chair. A young man and a little boy stand by the window watching the doctor. In the opposite corner of the room are two girls and an older woman holding an infant. Behind the sick woman's chair, another woman stands with a hand wiping her eyes.
An unknown doctor stands with a handkerchief in his right hand looking at a young woman who lies partially covered on a table. Another doctor stands farther from the woman as he rests his hands on anther table which holds medical supplies.
Unknown group of four doctors performing an operation on a man's lower torso. A nurse stands behind one of the doctors ready to assist. Two are holding scissor-like tools that they are inserting into the wound.
Jenner Applying Vaccination, "A caricature by Gillray. When the drawing was made vaccination had been introduced only six years and many fantastic objections were raised against the practice by anti-vaccinationists. Gillray cites the inspiration for his picture-'vide the Publications of the Anti-Vaccine Society.' A commentator of this drawing says: 'Dr. Jenner, and excellent portrait, is seen in the exercise of his discovery; a workhorse lad, impressed into the service as his assistant, is holding a milk pail filled with vaccine pox hot from the cow. A second doctor is in attendance, dispensing medicines to promote the effects of the vaccination, which are strongly developed on all sides. Various whimsical results are pictured in the unfortunate subjcets with whom the process may be said to have taken. A picture in the background, founded on the worship of the golden calf, represents the adoration of a cow.' "
"La Consultation" shows a group of nine men including Professor Damaschino, Dr. Millard, Professor Charcot, Dr. Gilles de la Tourette, Professor Brouardel, Dr. Larat, Professor Potain, Dr. Doleris, and Professor Guyon.
Color print, "La Vaccine en Voyage."
Unidentified print titled "Le Docteur." 18th century.
"Midwife Going to Labor," a caricature by Rowlandson, 1800. "This rotund 'Sairey Gamp' has been called to an early-morning case. In one hand she carries her lantern and in the other a bottle of brandy and her luggage. She is mounted on pattens to escape the mud of the streets. A sleepy chimney-sweep with his brushes and bags crouches along beside her."
18th-19th Century.
"Physicians Argue and the Patient Dies." "This is the last picture in a series by Hogarth, entitled 'The Harlot's Progress.' The following is from the comments of the Reverend J. Trusler, who apparently had a rather low opinion of the physicians: 'Released from Bridewell, we now see this victim to her own indiscretions breathe her last sad sigh; and expire in all the extremity of penury and wretchedness. The two quacks, whose injudicious treatment has probably accelerated her death, are vociferously supporting the infallibility of their respective medicines, each charging the other with having poisoned her. The meagre figure is a portrait of Dr. Misaubin, a foreigner, at that time in considerable practice."
"Prof. Billroth's Surgical Clinic," a doctor teaches a class as he stands over a body on a table.
A man looks under the sheet at a dead body.
A woman tends to a child's cut finger.
A caricature by Gillray.
A reprint of a poem with an image entitled The Hospital Rat.
From a Vanity Fair supplement.
by Peter Van Der Borcht (1545-1608).
from the picture by Ludovico Pogliaghi.
a doctor stands over a dead female.
by Cornelius Troost (1697-1750).
By Pieter Brueghel de Oude. (1525-1569) In the foregeround a woman, sitting in a kind of cradle, is giving a child a drink out of a cowshorn. One of the oldest reproduction of such a cradle.
Print of "The Sentry Box," Home of General Hugh Mercer in Fredericksburg, VA.
A caricature by Hogarth
by Adriaen van Ostade.
A man sits in his pajamas and a night cap, with his feet in a pail of water.
"Make way for the vaccination. Triumph of the smallpox."
A print of the Administrative Center of the Mount Sinai Hospital Group, New York, comprising eighteen separate buildings.
Alme House Hospital, Bellevue.
A print including information about the hospital.
A certificate for the Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Public Demonstration of Surgical Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, October 16, 1846.
19th century, Views of Chelsea Hospital
A print of Chelsea Hospital. There are men in a boat in the foreground.
Manchester.
A print of College of Physicians. The view is from an archway.
Print taken from the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."
First meeting of medical society of London, 1773.
A print of Greennich Hospital. There are boats in the foreground with the hospital in the background.
A print of Greennich Hospital. There is a ship in the foreground and the hospital is in the background. The print is mounted on paper.
A print of the Guy's Hospital, and statue of Thomas Guy, the foundee.
Artist: Adam & Charles Black
Home of Dr. Robert Mayo in Powhatan County, VA. Mayo was a doctor who attended the University of Pennsylvania in 1808. His thesis was "De Sensorium."
Hopital General dit La Salpetriere, Paris.
An engraving of Hopital Militaire du Val-de-Grace. The hospital is behind an irong fence. There are people and horsedrawn carriages in the foreground.
Three color drawings, elevation of the Grand Bridge, Pediment of Guy's Hospital, and the New Bethlem Hospital, London.
Artist/maker: Jones & Co.
A print of the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia including the new Samuel Gustine Thompson Annex.
A print of La Salpetriere in Paris published by Hermann Meyer in New York. The building is in the background and there are people and horsedrawn carriages in the foreground.
Engraving by R. Acon after T. H. Shepherd.
A print of Massachusetts General Hospital, Bulfinch Building, where Morton demonstrated anesthesia in 1846.
Probably from the 1940s.
There are people and horsedrawn carriages in the foreground with the hospital in the background.
Fredericksburg, VA.
A print of The East Front of the New University. Temple of the Muses
A print of Providence Hospital, Washington which was founded in 1861 by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, of Emmitsburg, Maryland.
A view of the Royal Infirmary from the North.
A print of The General Plan of the New Building intended for St. Bartholomews Hospital. There is a description of the hospital and drawings of the four buildings including two building facades.
Principal gate of the St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Artist/maker: John Manson
Artist/Maker T. Malton
A group of buildings on Washington Heights.
17th-18th century.
Black and white image, unidentified, of a woman who appears ill, sitting in a chair. A man stands in front of a door on the left, another woman is tending to the one in the chair.
An unidentified man sits at a table with a fur rug under his feet as he talks to a woman. The woman sits opposite him and is looking at the ground. On the table there are several books, a bottle, and a pair of glasses. Behind them light is coming through a window.
Photograph of the Archer House --6th and Franklin, Richmond. Home of Dr. Watson and Dr. Archer.
Photographic print of Descriptions of the Body of Man. 20th Century.
Photographic print of Dr. Skelton's home "Paxton" in Powhatan County, VA. Paxton is on the Virginia Landmarks Register (072-0034)
A Scene in Bedlam as Portrayed by Hogarth. "This is the last in a series of pictures called the 'Rake's Progress.' The 'Rake' has just been admitted to Bedlam. He is shown at the left side of the picture and is being chained. The antics exhibited by the various inmates are intended to represent insanity from various causes; the two women in the background are visitors observing 'the sights.' "
Photograph of the home of Dr. John Adams. Church Hill, Richmond. Now part of "Monte Maria."
19th century
photographic print of Dr. Ashton Alexander. Born in VA. Died in Baltimore. (See Corbel's Medical Annals of Maryland). Doctor at University of Pennsylvania. Thesis: "Influence of One Disease is the Cure of Others."
Photographic print of Dr. Thomas B. Anderson (1792-1872).
19th century
Mid-18th Century.
Photograph, Isle of Wight County, VA.
Noted anatomist of Caroline County, Virginia. Performed 2 successful operations for ectopic pregnancy in 1790 and 1799. Surgeon. Photo of a privately owned portrait in Washington.
Performed the first successful American Caesarian section in 1794.
18th-19th Century.
First Half 20th Century.
20th Century. Richmond, VA.
Born Loudan County, July 1806. Died Manchester Co, December 1882. Graduated Jefferson Medical College in 1834.
Silhouette portrait.
A photographic print of a silhouette of Dr. J. A. Brown, George Washington's doctor.
19th century
19th century
He appears to be dressed in a military uniform.
19th century
Dr. Thomas Jefferson Cheatham (1828-1901) of Chesterfield County, Virginia and a graduate of the University of Virginia.
19th century
Photographic print of the home of Dr. William Cocke (1672-1720). "Malvern Hill" on the James River.
Professor of obstetrics.
Photographic print. Original Portrait at the Surgeon General's Library. Washington Physician.
Died ca 1822 at about 45 years of age. Born in Scotland. Died in Richmond. Married 4 times.
Photographic print of the Home of Dr. John Cullen. Northeast Corner of Ross St. and Governor St. Used by Dr. John Hunter McGuire as part of St. Luke's Hospital.
A photographic print of an engraving of Dr. John Dove of Richmond, Virginia. He was a physician during the first quarter of the 19th century.
Silhouette Portraits of two men facing one another. The man on the left is wearing a hat and holding a cane and the man on the right has his hand outstretched. Underneath the men reads "Dr. Craik and Dr. Dick"
A photographic print of a silhouette of Doctor Craik and Doctor Dick, Washington's physicians.
A photographic print of a portrait of Dr. John Floyd who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1804 and was governor of Virginia from 1830 to 1834.
19th century
Chesterfield County, Virginia.
First Half 20th Century.
Photographic print, Mathews County, VA.
A photographic print of a miniature of Dr. Henry Cary Hampton of "Buckland" in Prince William County, Virginia. He moved to Cabell County circa 1798.
Homeier & Clark
First Half 20th Century.
A photographic print of a portrait by St. Memmin (ca. 1820) of Dr. James Jones of Nottoway County, Virginia.
A photographic print of a portrait of Dr. Arthur Lee.
A photographic print of Levin S. Joynes (1814-1881). He was educated at Washington College in Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, at at Paris and Dublin. He moved to Richmond in 1845. He was the dean of the Medical College of Virginia from 1856 to 1871.
Luckett was born at Montpelier, Loudoun County, Virginia and died in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He was associated with Dr. Hunter McGuire and William A. Pancoast in a tutoring school at Jefferson Medical College when the John Brown raid occured in 1859, and with Dr. McGuire and other southern students "seceded" in a body from Jefferson and returned to Richmond. His heart being too poor for army service, he settled at Falls Plantation and took over the practice of Dr. S.A. Patterson of Manchester who had just died.
A photographic print of a miniature of Miss McCaw, the niece of Dr. McClurg.
A photographic print of a small pastel portrait of Dr. James McClurg (1746-1823).
Drawing
Photograph of the home of Dr. James McClurg and later of his nephew Dr. James McCaw. Northeast corner of 6th and Grace St. Torn down in the early nineties.
A photographic print of a daguerreotype of Dr. Adoniram J. McTyre. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He is from Chesterfield County, Virginia.
A photographic print of a statue of General Hugh Mercer in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
A photographic print of a miniature of Dr. John Cyrus Mercer at the age of almost 16. Mercer was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia on May 12, 1810. He is the grandson of General Hugh Mercer.
A photographic print of Dr. Archer Mettauer who was the son of Dr. John Peter. He was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia around 1820 and died in 1910.
Photograph of the home of Dr. Mortimer in Fredericksburg, VA. Built in 1774. Dr. Mortimer was the physician at Mary Washington College.
Black and white negative. 18th-19th Century.
Carte de visite
A photographic print of a miniature of Dr. James Doddridge Patton who was born in Rockbridge County, Virginia in 1775 and died in Danville, Virginia in 1848.
A photographic print of a portrait of Dr. J. J. Phillips of Caroline County, Virginia. The portrait was painted ca. 1830 and owned by Miss Parker in Richmond.
Scotch Chemist. President of the Chemical Society.
A photographic print of a miniature.
Taken in July 1878.
Early 20th century.
Photograph of the bust of Walter Reed from the Army Medical Center.
Photograph of the bust of Walter Reed at Army Medical Musuem.
Photographic print of the opening night at the Richmond Academy of Medicine in 1932. Dr. J. Fulmer (Mayor of Richmond), Dr. Edward H. Cary (President of the American Medical Association), Dr. Francis R. Packard, Editor (Annals of Medical History), Dr. Stuart McGuire, Chairman (Building Committee at Richmond Academy of Medicine), Dr. Joseph L. Miller (Donor of the Miller Collection), Dr. FInley Gayle (President of the Richmond Academy of Medicine), Dr. William T. Sanger (President of Medical College of VA).
A cabinet card of Dr. Sardon.
A photographic print of William S. Sardon taken in 1925.
A photographic print of a silhouette of Thomas Semmes.
A photographic print of a portrait of John Augustine Smith, M. D. who was a president of William and Mary from 1804 to 1825.
Photographic print of the Home of Dr. Hugh Taylor from 5th St. in Richmond.
A photographic print of John Thomas, M.D., the architect of the United States Capital.
Wilmington, NC. Surgeon General's Office.
A photographic print of an unidentified male.
Chesterfield County, Virginia.
Dr. John Robinson Walker of Physics Hill in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Cook Photographers (Richmond, Va.)
A photographic print of Robert Walker M. D. of Virginia. The image is black and white of a portrait. Beneath the portrait: Graduated at University of Edinburgh on June 25, 1787. His thesis was De Cyanctie Maligna. He took a B.M. degree at the University of Pennsylvania before going to Edinburgh for his M. D.
The image was taken in 1879.
A daguerreotype of Warner wearing a dark coat, plaid vest, white shirt, and dark tie.
A print of Augustus L. Warner, M. D. (1807-1847). He was a founder and Dean and Professor of Surgery in the Medical Department of Hampden Sydney College (now the Medical College of Virginia) from 1837 until his death in 1847. This photograph was made for Dr. W. T. Sanger from an original dagauerreotype owned by Dr. Warner's great-nephew. It is the only known likeness of one of Richmond's most noted early surgeons.
A photographic print of a silhouette of Dr. George Watson (1784-1853). On the reverse: Born in Louisa County in 1784. A student at William and Mary, then Philadelphia, and abroad. Built a house at 6th and Franklin streets in Richmond, Virginia known as The Archer House. Practiced in Richmond over 50 years. Died in Louisa County in 1853.
Dr. J. J. Weight of Roxbury, Essex County, Virginia. The photograph was taken November 3, 1870.
A photographic print by Cook of Dr. Charles Richard Weisiger (1818-1883) of Coal Spring in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
20th Century.
Homeier & Clark
Photographic print of certificate for Wellford to be come a surgeon. Wellford later settled in Fredericksburg, VA.
Dr. J. W. Williams of Enfield of King William County, Virginia. The photograph was taken July 1878.
Kents Store, Fluvanna County. Taken in October 1878.
A photographic print of a daguerreotype of Dr. William Hicks Wooten (1828-1888) of Clover, Halifax Co., Virginia. Cook Photographers (Richmond, Va.)
Silhouette of Dr. Otway Crump and Dr. Branch Tanner Archer engaged in a duel with trees and ground cover drawn in.
A framed silhouette of Dr. Richard Allison. The subject is facing left and the silhouette is a head and shoulders view. His name is in script below the silhouette. On the reverse: Dr. Richard Allison / Born near Goshen, N. Y. 1757, died in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1816. Entered the army as a surgeon in the beginning of the Revolution; appointed surgeon for the Corps under General Harmar in 1789 for the protection of the frontier, and in 1790, Surgeon General under General St. Clair. In 1795 settled in Cincinnati for the practice of his profession, but was not mustered out of the army until 1798. See Kelly's American Medical Biographies, p. 21 for more extensive notice. / This is the first silhouette of my collection, and was bought in May 1896 in an old furniture and junk shop in Cincinnati as I was returning home from my first year at the University of Nashville. / Have been told there is no likeness of Gen. Allison among the portraits of the Surgeons General in the Library of the Sugeon General in Washington, but have not verified it. / Jos. Lyon Miller, M. D.
This silhouette shows a seated William Anderson, M.D. Black image with sepia background. Written on bottom, "William Anderson, M.D./ of New York/ Original silhouette cut by Auguste Edouart in 1830/ from collection of Mrs. Nevill Jackson, London."
This is a silhouette of Dr. John Archer, full body black image with a white background. On reverse: Dr. John Archer (1741-1810) Harford Co., Md. In 1901 this silhouette was purchased from a Baltimore dealer in antiques, who said it came from a family that claimed to have had it for a hundred years and had known it as the portrait of Dr. John Archer, who had been the instructor of ancestor of theirs. It bears no marks of identification. The portrait however answers the description of Dr. Archer given in Cordell's Medical Annals of Md. Nov. 24th 1926 I had the pleasure of visiting Dr. George Archer, a grandson of Dr. John Archer, at his home at Bellaire, Md., in company with Miss Noyes, librarian of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Md. Dr. Archer remarked as soon as he was shown the silhouette "that is a picture of Dr. John Archer and I recall having seen it many years ago, but do not remember who had it." He further said that he did not think it was a very good likeness, but when he compared it with an original portrait of Dr. Archer now in his possession it was found to conform in every feature with the portrait, except as he said the nose was "sharper," but this can be easily accounted for by the fact that one is profile and the other full face, and the silhouette probably represents a later period in life than the portrait, as it was there was but little difference. Dr. Archer was graduated from Princeton, A.B., 1760, and A.M. 1763. Was ordained a minister of the Presbyterian Church, but later decided to study medicine, which he did under Dr. John Morgan of Phila., later being graduated M.D. in 1768 with the first class in the first Medical College in America, The Philadelphia Medical College (now the Univ. of Penn.) receiving the first diploma given in a class of tan. The next year he settled in Harford County, and at his home built "Medical Hall" and conducted a private school for instruction in medicine and in the next forty years trained over fifty of the leading physicians of Maryland and adjoining states. He was a member of the Committee of Observation, 1774-'75; Delegate to the Maryland Convention, 1776; Judge of he Orphans Court, 1782; Presidential Elector, 1796; Member of Congress, 1801-'07.
This silhouette is of Sir David Barry, British Military Surgeon, black image on white background, full body, holding a hat and cane. At the bottom of the picture, "original silhouette cut by Edouart 11th June 1835 from collection of Mrs. Nevill Jackson, London, Eng. David Barry, M.D. (born 1780-died 1836) In 1806 entered the Medical corps in the British Army and continued in the service until his sudden death of rupture of the aorta. Saw much foreign service during the Napoleon Wars. Was knighted in 1832 having previously received the orders of The Tower, the Sword of Portugal, and St. Ann of Russia. From the collection of Eduart silhouettes of Ms. Nevill Jackson, but remounted on new card."
This is a framed silhouette of Dr. Elisha Bartlett, full body, with Bartlett facing to the right. "This silhouette was given by Bartlett, himself, with one of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, to Dr. Fielding Davis, of Woodford County, KY, who was a pupil of his at Transylvania University, and they were both then given to me in 1905 by Dr. Davis, my kinsman. Underneath the loose part of the silhouette is written 'E. Bartlett, Prof. Practice Boston, May 24, 1842' Elisha Bartlett, M.D. (1804-1855) of Rhode Island is classed with Dr. John T. Bassett of Alabama, and Samuel H. Dickson of South Carolina as: 'A trio of elegant and attractive litterature.'-Garrison. After a fine preliminary education he took his degree of M.D. from Brown University in 1826, after which he had a year of post graduate work in Paris under Cloquet, Cuvier and other well known French physicians. For twenty years he held a chair in many medical schools as follows: 1832, Berkshire Medical Institute, Massachusetts, Patholocal Anatomy & Materia Medical 1839, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Practice of Medicine. 1841-44, Transylvania University, Kentucky, Practice of Medicine. 1844. University of Maryland, Practice of Medicine. 1844. Vermont Medical College, Materia Medica and Obstetrics. 1849. University of Louisville, Kentucky, Practice of Medicine. 1850, University of New York, Practice of Medicine. 1852, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, Materia Medica & Jurisprudence. Osler says 'Bartlett was at his best in the occasional assress,' and his 'Essay on the Philosophy of Medicine' (1844) is 'a classic in American Medical literature,' also that his pictures of Hippocrates in his 'Discourse on the Times, Character and Writings of Hippocrates' (1852) are 'masterpieces worthy of Walter Savage Landon.'"
A silhouette of Levi Bartlett, M. D. He is facing left and the silhouette is a head and shoulders view. His name is in script under the silhouette. On the reverse: Silhouette of Dr. Levi Bartlett, Kingstown, N. H., son of Dr. Josiah Bartlett, a prominent physician of Kingston, N. H., Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Colonel in the Revolution, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (1779), Justice of the Superior Court (1782), Chief Justice of the State (1788), and unanimously elected the first Governor of the State of New Hampshire in 1793. This silhouette was acquired from Mr. Walter Romayne Benjamin of New York when I purchased from him, the medical letters of the Bartlett papers. The finish of the bust and treatment of the hair show unmistakingly that it was cut by Everett Howard, though unsigned. An authority on silhouettes, Mrs. Alice Van Leer Carrick, says of Everett Howard "his is a rare name" among profilists, and " the crisp and almost calligraphic finish of the bust is interesting and characteristic." Artist: Everett Howard.
A framed silhouette of Dr. Jesse Bennett. It is a head and shoulders view with the subject facing left.
A framed silhouette of either Dr. Thomas or Phineas Bond. It is a head and shoulders view and the subject is facing right. On the reverse in script: Dr. Bond -Thomas or Phineas? Silhouette purchased unframed from Geo. H. Rigby, Philadelphia and framed in a Foster reproduction later. An article by Mrs. Nevill Jackson in the Comoseur (1925?) shows the same silhouette labeled Phineas Bond and includes it among those cut by Major Andre who no doubt like all silhouettists cut in duplicate possibly more. Thomas Bond (1712-1784) "May with justice be considered one of the foremost medical men of the 18th century in America because of his influencein founding the 1st hospital and the 1st medical school (The Pennsylvania Hospital and the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania)" Francis R. Packard. Phineas Bond (1718-1773) like his brother was educated in both America and Europe and ably assisted him in his effort to found the hospital and medical school...
A silhouette of Daniel Drake, M. D. (1785-1852). The view is head and shoulders and the subject is facing left. The hair on his head had been sketched. On the reverse: Drake was probably the ablest physician of his day in the middle west and a distinguished teacher in Transylvania Univ. Med. Coll of Ohio; Jefferson Med. Coll.; and Univ. of Louisville. Graduate of Univ. of Penn., versatile author, and honored by many societies at home and abroad. Born in N. J., taken to Ky. at age of 2 1/2 years where he was reared. 1800-1804 read medicine with Dr. Goforth of Cincinnati, 1805 first course at Univ. of Penn., 1806 practiced at his old home in Ky., 2nd. course and graduation U. of P. 1816, First professorship, 1817. Was a boyhood friend of Capt. Sam'l Ireland of Lewis Co., Ky. and later his physician. Gave him this silhouettes of himself, cut about 1820. It came to me from my wife, a great granddaughter of Capt. Ireland.
Silhouette cut by Auguste Edouart on May 26, 1844, Lexington, Kentucky, of Dr. Joshua Taylor Bradford of Augusta, Kentucky. The silhouette is full figure with the subjects left hand on his waist and he is holding a hat in his right hand. On the reverse: Dr. Bradford was born in Bracken County, Ky., Dec. 9, 1818, son of William and Elizabeth Bradford who came from Virginia to Kentucky in 1790. He was educated at Agusta College, later studied medicine with his brother, Dr. J. J. Bradford, and in 1839 received his degree of M. D. from Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Yandell describes him as follows: "In manners he was dignified, urbane, cordial, and gentle. Of an imposing presence he was a man to attract notice and command respect in any circle; and his warm feelings, varied attainments, and social nature made him one of the most charming of companions." "From the beginning he directed his attention to surgery, and in all probability received much of his inspiration from Benjamin Dudly his surgical teacher in the Transylvania University. Soon after graduation, he successfully performed and ovariotomy. And it was not long before he became the foremost surgeon of Kentucky, and of all the west in that affection. Nor is it too much to say that at the time of his death he stood first among surgeons everywhere --in Europe and in our own country --as an ovariotomist. Not that he had done the operation oftener than any other surgeon. Such is not the fact. It has been performed much oftener by Atlee, Wells, Dunlap and others; but by none with the measure of success that crowned his operations. In the hands of the surgeons just mentioned the recoveries were respectively 71, 73, and 80 per cent. With Bradford his successful cases amounted to 90 per cent.... In whatever cases he was called to operate he exhibited the same coolness and dexterity, the same fruitfulness in resources, and the same thorough knowledge of his art." "Not being ambitious he preferred the charms of his "Piedmont" home at Agusta to the allurements of professional life, which goes far towards explaining the comparative obscurity into which he lapsed. Strange tos, unlike McDowell, Dudley and others he was almost lost to the medical literature of Kentucky, which is not altogether to the credit of his followers. He twice declined the chair of surger in his University, and but a short time before his death was again urged to accept the same chair in Cincinnati. Most of his cases were reported in the New York Medical Times, The Cincinnati Lancet, Gross Surgery, New York American Monthly, American Chirurgical Review, and Louisville Semi-monthly News. Dr. Bradford died October 31st, 1871 in the 53rd. year of his life of abscess of the liver.
This is a silhouette of Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown. It is a profile of his face, black image with white background. On reverse: Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown (1747-1804) Son of Dr. Gustavus Brown (1689-1763), who came to Caroline Co., Md. in 1708, and his 2nd wife Mrs. Margaret Black Boyd. Dr. G.R.B. was graduated M.D. from Edinburgh in 1768 having as fellow students Dr. Benj. Rush of Phila. and Dr. Walter Jones of Va. He then "walked" the hospitals in London several months before returning to Port Tobacco, Md. to settle into practice. He established a hospital in 1776 on the Va. side of the Potomac for the innoculation of smallpox. Drs. Craik and Dick called him as consultant in Gen. Washington's last illness. After the General's death Dr. Brown said in a letter he thought they were all wrong in bleeding the patient so much. In 1911 or '12, I bought this silhouette from an old lady at Williamsport, Md. who said it had belonged to her first husband's family who had been patients of Dr. Brown's.
Silhouett of Archibald Bruce, black, profile image of his head with a white background. On reverse: Silhouette of Dr. Archibald Bruce (1777-1818) bought in New York. He was a physician and mineralogist, son of William Bruce, head of the British Army in New York, and was born there during the Revolution. When his father was ordered to the West Indies, he specially directed that his son should not be brought up to the medical profession. After graduating in Arts at Columbia in 1795, he became interested in the lectures of Dr. Nicholas Romayne, and Dr. David Hosack and attended courses at Kings College. In 1798, he went to Europe where he travelled in France, Italy and Switzerland collecting a mineralogical cabinet of great value, and attending medical lectures at Univ. of Edinburgh, where he received his medical degree in 1800. He married in London and returned to New York in 1803 and began the practice of medicine, and 1807-1811 was professor of Materia Medica and mineralogy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1810 he edited the first purely scientific journal in America-The Journal of American Mineralogy. Died of Apoplexy Feb. 22, 1818.
A framed silhouette of Dr. George Cabell, Jr. (1774-1827). The silhouette is a head and shoulders view with the subject facing right. On the reverse: Dr. George Cabell, Jr. / (1774-1827), Richmond, Virginia, Dr. George Cabell, Jr. so called to distinguish him from his first cousin, Dr. George Cabell, Sr. They were grandsons of Dr. William Cabell, founder of the family in Virginia. Dr. George Cabell, Jr. was born October 1774 at "Warminister," Nelson County, Virginia; studied medicine under his cousin, Dr. George Cabell, Sr., and later was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He then practiced in his native county as a partner of his brother-in-law, Dr. William B. Hare. When Dr. Hare moved to Harewood, Dr. Cabell soon went to Lynchburg, he is know to have been there in 1807, and was a partner of Dr. Southall, who died in 1817, and about the same time Mrs. Cabell died and soon afterward, Dr. Cabell removed to Richmond where he practiced until his death in 1827. Jan. 15, 1798, Dr. Cabell was married to Susannah Wyatt, after which he built and lived at "Bon Air," Nelson County. They were the parents of Dr. James Lawrence Cabell (1813-1889) a distinguished professor at the University of Virginia from 1837 to 1889. Notes from "The Cabells and Their Kin." This silhouette was purchased at the old Stone House, Richmond, Va. with others during my student days in Richmond, 1897-1900.
Silhouette of Dr. George William Campbell (1810-1882) of Montreal, Canada. The silhouette is full body and the subject is facing right. There is text at the bottom: Dr. George William Campbell (1810-1882) of Montreal, Canada. Professor of Midwifery Magill University 1835-1842, and of surgery, 1842-1875 Dean of the faculty 1860-1882. Cut by Edouard on 25 June 1835 at Termoy Cunty, Cork, Ireland while Dr. Campbell was visiting in Scotland and Ireland / Silhouette (remounted) is from Mrs. Neville Jackson's collections. Artist: Auguste Edouart
A silhouette of Dr. Augustus Henry Cind and his wife seated at a table. The view is full bodied and the subjects are seated with a table between them. At the bottom is signed Aug Edouart, first, 1838. Artist: Auguste Edouart
Silhouettes of Dr. Johnathon Clerke of Bandon and Dr. Robert Burt of Edinburgh. Both are full body images and are facing right. Writing at the bottom identifies the two doctors. On the reverse: Jonathon Clerke, M. D., Bandon, 1835 Robert Burt, M. D., Edinburgh, 1831, original silhouettes on original leaf from Edouart's portfolio from collection of Mrs. Nevill Jackson, London. Artist: Auguste Edouart
This is a silhouette of James Cocke, M.D. A profile of his face, black image on white background. On reverse: James Cocke, M.D. (1780-1813) Was born at Tar Bay below City oint, Va.; read medicine with one of the local doctors, and then became a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper at Guy's Hospital, London in 1801-02. For some reason he returned to America without taking his degree, but entered the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of M.D. in 1804. His thesis at this time attracted a great deal of attention and was reprinted in 1806. The title was: "An attempt to ascertain the causes of the extraordinary inflammation which attacks wounded cavities and their contents." In this paper he ably advocated and defended the propriety and practicability of Ovariotomy--five years before McDowell performed his famous operation. In 1804 after graduation he located in Baltimore, and in 1807 associated himself with Dr. John Davidge in lecturing to private pupils, and still later they with Dr. John Shaw founded the College of Medicine of Maryland finally advancing it to the rank of University. Here he taught anatomy until his death in 1813. He was also an able surgeon, and in 1805 reduced a dislocation of the Humerus of seventeen weeks and three days standing and unsuccessful attempts of other surgeons. I bought this silhouette from a Howard Street dealer in Baltimore in 1905 or '06. It is identified by "Dr. James Cocke, Baltimore Town, Maryland on the back of the black part.
Dr. James Craik of Virginia, a black, profile head on a white background. There is a glass matte, with a black and gold frame. On reverse: Dr. Craik of Virginia.
This group of silhouettes is of Drs. Craik and Dick. It is a full body silhouette of the two men facing each other, with Dr. Dick holding out his hand, Dr. Craik holding a cane. Black image on white background. On reverse: Dr. James Craik (1741-1814) and Dr. Elisha C. Dick (1762-1825) were two of the most eminent physicians in northern Virginia in the last half of the 18th century and first quarter of the 19th. and famous as the attending physicians in the last illness of General George Washington. For extended biographies see Kelly's American Medical Biography. This old silhouette in the original frame of these famous physicians was found several years ago in an old junk shop and old furniture store at Alexandria, Virginia.
This is a silhouette of Dr. John Cullen, a profile of his face, black image with white background. On reverse: Dr. John Cullen, a native of Ireland; graduate of the Univ. of Dublin; settled in Richmond, Va. 1st quarter last century. One of the founders and 1st Prof. Theory & Practice of Medicine at Hampden-Sydney Med. College, 1838, now Medical College of Va., father of Dr. John Syng Dorsey Cullen (1832-1893) distinguished Richmond, surgeon, gnecologist [?] and professor. Silhouette purchased with the Cabell and Hare silhouettes at the old Stone House, Richmond during my student days, 1897-1900. Dr. Cullen's name is under the head as is Dr. Cabell's on the Cabell portrait.
A silhouette of Dr. William Potts Dewes (1768-1841). The silhouette is a head and shoulders view. On the reverse in script: Dr. William Potts Dewes (1768-1841) Silhouette by Peale about 1798-1800. Began practice at the age of 21 with degree of M. B. from Univ. of Penn., where later he rec'd degree of M.D. in 1806. He specialized in Obstetrics from the start, his graduation thesis being " Lessening pain in Parturitoil" which the great Shippen said mared an era in the history of medicine. Prof. Ob. 1834-1841. Artist: Charles WIlson Peale
Silhouette depicting Dr. Andrew Duncan, seated holding his glasses and reading a book. Written on the bottom of the picture, "Dr. Andrew Duncan, M.D. Professor of Materia Medica, Edinburgh 25th December 1830. Dr. Andrew Duncan, Secundus, (born 1774 died 1832) Professor Medical Jurisprudence 1807-1820. Professor Materia Medica 1821-1832, University of Edinburgh. 'Had a mind of greater calibre than his worthy father.' Graduated M.A. in 1793, and M.D. in 1794. Two years in post-graduate study in London, Germany and Italy. From the collection of original silhouettes by Edouart, owned by Mrs. Nevill Jackson, London, England." Artist: Auguste Edouart
A silhouette of Dr. Benjamin Flower. The subject is facing left and the image is a head and shoulders view. On the reverse: A letter from M.R. Nugent of New York to Dr. J.L. Miller of West Virginia: M.R. Nugent / Central Park L. I. / New York / DR. J.L. Miller / Thomas W. Va. / June 4, 1926 / Dear Dr. Miller, / I have been on a motor trip for over the holidays and have had quite and interesting time among the antique shops. I also am able to give you some information about the Hubard silhouette of Dr. Flower. / Dr. Benjamin Flower was a direct descendant of Benjamin Flower the composer of "Nearer My God To Thee" who was a publisher in Cambridge England. Dr. Flower was born in Hertfordshire Eng. about 1783. He followed his brother to this country in 1825 or perhaps earlier as he attended Kenturcky University when he made an extended study of medicine whence later he joined his brother in founding Edwards Co., Ill. later called Albion. From all accounts Dr. Flower died around 1830 as he was a man of frail constitution and not able to cope with the hardships of pioneering for this reason he has not been mentioned in the history and settlement of western Ill. as much as his brother Geo. Flower. / Hoping you will receive same in good condition and that it will prove interesting. / Sincerely I am, (signed) MR Nugent. Artist: Hubbard
This group of three silhouettes includes Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. John Redman. Franklin and Rush are facing to the left and Redman is facing to the right. Black images on white background. On the reverse: From M. R. Nugent, Central Park, Long Island, New York to Dr. Joseph Miller in Thoms, West Virginia: Dear Dr. Miller: In my last visit to Philadelphia I saw a group picture of three Peale silhouettes, Dr. Ben. Franklin, Dr. Ben Rush, and Dr. Drowne, in an old maple frame size 14 x 16 glass mat embellished with etched gilt eagle, this is a very beautiful picture, and is a rare piece for any collector. This is in the possession of an old lady in Philadelphia. I have an option on same which expires Jan. 15, if you are interested the price is [illegible]. Kindly advise me as soon as possible, so I can close my option and will send to you by express fully insured. Thanking you for an early reply I am, Yours truly, M. R. Nugent.The note at the bottom from Miller states: After receiving the above, I removed the portrait of Dr. Drowne, and substituted one I had of Dr. John Redman being more appropriate for the company of Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Benj. Rush. While it is slightly larger than the other two and stamped with the Peale's stamp, it resembles his work so much it was probably cut by him or an assistant. Dr. Redman was a lifetime friend of Franklin, and the preceptor of Rush of six years, so in my opinion makes the grouping better than by retaining the portrait of Dr. Drowne of Rhode Island, who may or may not have been an acquaintance of the other two. Drowne was a medical student at Univ. of Penn from which he was graduated MD in 1781.
A framed of Dr. Samuel Griffin of Bedford County, Virginia. The silhouette is a full body view and is facing right. There is text next to the silhouette: Floramont Bedford County, Virginia / May 28, 1803 / Dear Bartlett, / Since my effusiion of a few days ago a kind lady in this vicinity has cut my likeness which they say is very good. If you put a piece of black paper or silk back of it you will see your old friend again .through some friends more than you used to know. Alas such is age. The Beaver is the latest style here. After my lenghty [?] I have nothing more to say now but to beg of you a return visit from your...[illegible]. Signed by Samuel Griffin.
This group of silhouettes includes eight physicians from New York City. Each a profile of their head, black image on white background. There is a glass matte and a wooden frame surrounding it. On the top row, left to right, are Dr. Nicholas Romayne, Dr. John Jones, Dr. Sam Mitchell. Second Row, Dr. W. Post, Dr. Sam Bard, Bottom Row, Dr. Edward Miller, Dr. Wm. Macneven, and Dr. David Hosack. On reverse: This group of silhouettes includes eight physicians from New York City. Each a profile of their head, black image on white background and include Dr. Nicholas Romayne, Dr. John Jones, Dr. Sam Mitchell. Second Row, Dr. W. Post, Dr. Sam Bard, Bottom Row, Dr. Edward Miller, Dr. Wm. MacNeven, and Dr. David Hosack. On reverse: This group of early New York City physicians were purchased in 1914 from an antique dealer, who claimed to have had them with a number of others (not of this series) from the family of a deceased physician who had collected them. They had all been disposed of but this group and one of Archibald Bruce, which I purchased. Very probably there were a number of other similar portraits in the series, but evidently none of the others had been found by the collector. They probably were painted about the beginning of the 19th century, or sometime between 1790 and 1810, and represent early members of the Medical Faculty of the old College of Physicians of Columbia University. For extended sketched see Kelly's American Medical Biographies, and History of the College of Physicians of N.Y. Jones, John. (1729-1791). Very prominent surgeon in New York City and later Philadelphia. First professor of anatomy and Obstetrics in Medical Department of the College of New York. See Kelly page 639. Romayne, Nicholas (1756-1817). One of the most highly educated physicians in New York. Professor on faculty of College of New York, and also a private teacher in medicine. "Anatomy, practice of physic, chemistry, and botany were all taught by this extraordinary man with such success that he drew hearers even from Canada." See Kelly, page 999. Mitchell, Samuel L. (1764-1831). One of the most prominent physicians and naturalists in New York City. Member of the faculty of the College of New York. His first course of lectures on natural history including, geology, mineralogy, zoology, ichthyology and botany were in extenso in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1811. "He was the delight of a meeting of naturalists; the seed he sowed gave origin and growth to a mighty crop of those disciples of natural science. He was, emphatically, our greatest living ichthyologist." See Kelly page 807.Bard, Samuel (1742-1821). President of the College of Physicians & Surgeons of New York. Prof. of the theory & practice of medicine. His favorite branch was midwifery, and in 1807 published his treatise on that subject being the author of the first American textbook on obstetrics. See Kelly page 59.Post, Philip Wright (1766-1828). Pupil of John Hunter of London, Prof. of Anatomy in the College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, 1792-1813 and after that date in Columbia University. Prominent as a surgeon in the first quarter of the 19th century etc. See Kelly, page 927.Miller, Edward (1760-1812). Surgeon in the Navy during the Revolution. Attended lectures at the Univ. of Penn. for two years at close of war, receiving his degree in 1785. Removed to New York in 1796 and following year joined J.L. Mitchell and Elihu Smith in editing the Medical Repository, physician to Port of N.Y. 1803 et sub. prof. of Practice of Medicine 1807 in College of P. & S. Clinical Lecturer at N.Y. Hospital in 1809. He was among the earliest to note the advantages of clinical instruction and study of pathological anatomy. See Kelly page 792. MacnNeven, Wm. James (1763-1841). Born in Ireland, sent at the age of 10, to his uncle Baron (and Doctor) McNeven, Court Physician to the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, who had him educated in Prague and Vienna, where he received the degree of M.D. from the Univ. of Vienna in 1785. Mixed up in the seditious affairs in Ireland he was arrested in 1798 and confined in Scotland, and was refused admission to the U.S. by Rufus King, Ambassador at London. Released in 1802 and in 1804 came to New York City, and began practice at once. In 1806 received honorary degree of M.D. from Columbia. 1807 appointed professor of Obstetrics at Coll. of P. & S., later had chairs of Chemistry and Materia Medica added to his duties. "Dr. William McNeven was a light of no ordinary luster in the annals of American Medical History." Hosack, David (1769-1835). "David Hosack was one of those who live for tomorrow, who doggedly advocate and carry out reforms for which they themselves get neither credit nor profit." Graduated M.D. from the Univ. of Penn. 1791. Spent two years in the hospitals of Edinburgh and London under the great men of that day in those cities. Offered professor of Botany chair by Columbia in 1795. Did great service in the Yellow Fever epidemic of that year and was taken into partnership with Dr. Samuel Bard. Was a great botanist and mineralogist. Founded the Humane Society. Excellent surgeon, introducing new operations from Europe. Was the first American to tie the femoral artery for aneurism, 1808. Professor of surgery and midwifery College of P. & S. 1807-1826. See Kelly, page 561.
Framed silhouette of Dr. James Hamilton, born in 1767 and died in 1839. It is a full body silhouette and the subject is facing right. Written on the mattboard: James Hamilton, M. D. Born 1767, --Died 1839 / Professor of Midwifery, Univ. Edinburgh / 1800 to 1839 / silhouette cut by Auguste Edouart -24 May 1831 / From the Collection of Mrs. Neville Jackson.
This group of two silhouettes contains Dr. Henry Cary Hampton and Mrs. Elizabeth P. Hampton. There is also a silhouette of the face of a house with trees around it. The images are black with white background, glass matte surrounded by wooden frame. There is handwriting all over the white background. On reverse: Dr. Henry Cary Hampton (1754-1840), Mrs. Elizabeth P. Hampton (1758-1802). His Home "Soldier's Claim." Dr. Henry Cary Hampton, was the 2nd son of Capt. Henry Hampton, "Buckland," Prince William County, Virginia, and his first wife Elizabeth Cary Hobson, daughter of William Hobson of Northumberland County. Henry Hampton, Sr. (1721-1778) was the 5th son of John and Margaret Wade Hampton of Fairfax County, and brother of Anthony Hampton who went to South Carolina and was the father of the first Gen. Wade Hampton (old Bible records and other family letters and papers). Dr. Henry Cary Hampton, was educated at private schools in Virginia, and read medicine for 4 years (1771-1775) under Dr. Andrew Robertson, a Scotch surgeon who settled in Lancaster Co., Va. after the French and Indian War. The certificate he gave to Dr. Hampton is still preserved and as an example of practice of that day I will copy it here. "These presents will inform all whom are concerned that Mr. Cary Henry Hampton of the County of Prince William in the Colony of Virginia hath Compleated his Appentisship to my Instruction in the Arts & Sciences of Anatomy, Chirurgery, Physic and Midwifery to all of which for the space of years he hath been Studious & Diligent. He is well grounded in the teachings of Cheseldens Anatomy, Heisters Surgery, Cullens Materia Medica, Smellies Midwifery, the Works of our Masters Sydenham & Hippocrates which he hath read in the Latin tongue, as well as many other books of our Profession, and in the Instruction I have give to him at the beds of my Patients & elsewhere. So I repose my Confidence in his knowledge & Recommend him to all those who require his Skill & Services. Given under my hand & seal this the 1st Day of August 1775. Andrew Robertson Doctor in Medicine. (Wax Seal)" Later Dr. Hampton entered the Continental Army as an assistant surgeon and in 1783 received back pay to the amount of 113 pounds and 4 shillings. After the death of his father he dropped the name of Cary and in 1798 removed to some French and Indian War lands inherited from his father on the Ohio River where Huntington, West Va. now stands. This silhouette was cut in 1802, by an artist who stopped at Dr. Hampton's home as he was travelling to Cincinnati to open a studio (name not given) and sent by Dr. Hampton to his brother, William Hampton of "Cedar Hill," Fauquier Co. Va. whose descendants returned it to Mrs. Miller (see Pamela Hampton of Ashland, Ky.) who was a great, great granddaughter of Dr. Hampton. The simiar treatment of the dress in this and the sihouettes of Dr. Richard Alison and Dr. Daniel Drake of Cincinnati, would indicate they were cut by the same artist and confirms Dr. Hampton's statement on the back of his silhouette hat the artist who cut his was en route to Cincinnati or Lexington to open a studio. Dr. Hampton's letter on back of silhouette. "Soldier's Claim.""Brother William, Mr. Thornton will hand you these likenesses cut by a gentleman who stopped with me as he passed down the Ohio to Lexington in Kentucky to take up his residence as a painter of portraits. He has limnd [?] my likeness in Color and all agree it is a fine one of the subject. He cut these one night as we sat around the fire you no doubt have seen like them before. You must put a sheet of black paper or cloth behind them. You will notice we are comfortably tho not finely housed. There is not much news since my letter of you of date of March 22. and Mr. Thornton can give you that with more ease than I can write it. I shall be glad to have a letter from you at your first opportunity & hope you are well. Yr. brother, Henry Hampton."
A silhouette of Dr. William B. Hare (1760-1818) of "Harewood", Nelson County, Virginia. The subject is facing right and the silhouette is a head and shoulders view. On the reverse: Dr. William B. Hare, (1760-1818) of "Harewood," Nelson County, Virginia. Dr. Hare was born in King & Queen Co., Va. in 1760 and removed to Amherst County, prior to 1791. Member of the Va. Legislature, 1799-1801 and probably 1802. Married on July 11, 1793 Elizabeth Cabell at "Liberty Hall", the Cabell home. She died in 1802, and about 1804 he removed to "Harewood" in Nelson Co. 1805 to 1810, was a member of the Council of State. Died at "Harewood" 28th June 1818. "He was a man of complaisant, agreable manners, friendly and affable and very popular." - Notes from "The Cabells & Their Kin." While student in Richmond, 1897-1900, I bought this silhouette with those of Drs. John Cullen and George Cabell at the curio and junk shop kept at that time in the Old Stone House on Main St. --now the Poe Shrine. This silhouette is evidently older than the others and probably cut about 1795-1800, while the others were probably cut about 1820-25, and by a different artist. They probably all belonged to one person originally ---a friend or relative of one or more of them.
This is a silhouette of Robert Hare. It is a black, profile image of his head on a white background. On reverse: Robert Hare (1781-1858) An eminent American pioneer chemist, after receiving the degree of M.D. from Harvard in 1818 was elected professor of chemistry and natural history in William and Mary College, but within the year was called to the chair of Chemistry in the Univ. of Pennsylvania, which he occupied for 30 years. As early as 1801 he invented the hydrostatic or oxyhydrogen blowpipe. By 1803 he had perfected an apparatus by which he fused for the first time large quantities of lime, manesium and platinum. He invented the calorimeter, the deflagrator, and devised a plan to denarcotize laudanum, etc. etc. See sketch in Kelley's American Medical Biography.
A silhouette of Dr. William Heron, the Andersonian Professor of Natural Philosphy in Glasgow. The silhouette is a full body image with the subject facing left. On the matt is written: Wm. Heron, M. D., Andersonian Professor Natural Philosophy, Glasgow. Original silhouette [remounted] by Auguste Edouart in 1832 from collection of Mrs. Neall Jackson, London.
Framed silhouette of Dr. Walter Jones (1745-1815). The silhouette is a head and shoulders cut with his name in script below the silhouette. On the reverse in type: Dr. Walter Jones / (1745-1815) / native of Va. Graduate of Edinburgh in 1769. A. B. from Wm. & Mary in 1760. Greatly esteemed by Cullen and other members of the faculty at Edinburgh, who described him as " the most shining young gentleman of his profession in Edinburgh and one who would make a great figure wherever he went." / 1777 app't by Congress, Physician General to the Hospitals of the Middle Military Dept. Member of Congress 1797-99, and 1803-11. This silhouette by Peale of Phila. was probably cut about 1810. Miller acquired it in Alexandria in 1907.
A silhouette of Dr. Aquila Leighton Knight. The subject is facing left and the silhouette is a head and shoulders view. On the reverse: Knight, Aquila Leighton. West Columbia, West Va., was born in the county of Mason, Va., December 25, 1823. He is the son of George Ray Knight, whose ancestors came from England. He was educated by private tutors, and studied medicine in the med. dept. of the Western Reserve College in Ohio, graduating M. D., March 1850, and settled in West Columbia in the general practice of medicine and surgery, in which latter branch he has performed a number of successful operations. He is a member of the Meigs and Mason acad. of med.; was its president in 1866 and 1872; of the Mason co. med.soc., West Va., was its president in 1876; of the Meigs co. med. soc., president in 1875; of the Ohio valley med. asso., and of the West Va. State med. soc., its vice president in 1874. To the literature of his profession he has contributed and article on "Clay as a Therapeutical Agent," Southern Medical Record; "Ischuria Renalis," Medical and Surgical Reporter, Philadelphia; "Differential Diagnosis of Diphtheria." Southern Medical Record; "Duodenitis, ibid.; "Medical Jurisprudence." Cincinnati Lancet and Observer, etc. In 1861 he entered the southern army as a private, and after serving three months, was detailed as surgeon in Brigadier-General John Floyd's division, and captured. After being six months in prison, with an indictment for treason hanging over him, he was released with the loss of all his property. He returned to the practice of his profession in 1863. In 1855 he married Susan Frances, daughter of Wyatt Willis, Esq., of Lawrence co., Ohio. Dr. Knight died in June 1897. This silhouette of him was cut about 1845-6 and given to me by him in July 1896. He was a talented artist and several of his paintings of historic scenes in Western Virginia were burned in the West Virginia state capitol.
A silhouette of Rene La Roche, Jr., M.D. (1795-1872) This well known Philadelphia physician was the son of a French physician of the same name who was a graduate of the University of Montpelier, and a practicioner in San Domingo until the insurrection in that island when he came to Philadelphia, where he died in 1819. Dr. LaRoche, Jr. was born in Philadelphia and at the age of 17 served in the War of 1812 as a captain under Col. Chapman Biddle. After the war he entered the Univ. of Penn., and was graduated in medicine in 1820. Besides being one of the founders of the Monday Evening Club, said to the the first medical club in the United States, active member of the College of Physicians, president of the county and state medical societies, trustees of the University, editor of the North American Medial and Surgical Journal, etc. he was an assiduous writer on medical subjects, his chief work being a treatise on Yellow Fever, which Gross said was . "A work of profound erudition, at once complete and exhaustive." In his autiobiography Dr. Gross also said: "Dr. LaRoche had an expressive and intellectual countenance, a handsome eye, and a good forhead, although his head was not very large. His highly organized and well-balanced brain enabled him to perform a vast amount of labor. In his physique he was so fragile that it seemed as if a heavy wind might readily blow him over. I knew LaRoche personally for more than a third of a century, a part of this time intimately, and during all that time he retained his attenuated form." This original silhouette was cut by the famous Edouart on December 12, 1843, and mounted on one of his lithougraphed backgrounds. I bought it from Mr. George H. Rigby, Philadelphia in 1919. The name and date in Edouart's handwriting are on the back of the mount. Artist: Auguste Edouart
This is a silhouette of Crawford Long, a black, profile image of his head on a white background. On reverse, handwritten: Presented to Dr. Harris by Mrs. Taylor for the daughter of Crawford W. Long. Mrs. Taylor died in Athens, Georgia in 1930 at the age of 87. Presented to Dr. J. Miller for the Richmond Academy of Medicine.
Silhouette of Dr. James McCaw of Richmond, Virginia. The subject is facing left and the silhouette is a full body view. The background is a pencil sketch with trees on some rocks. On the reverse: This old silhouette of Dr. James McCaw of Richmond, Virginia, was bought with the one of the duel between Doctors Archer and Crump at the Old Stone House on Main Street while I was a student in Richmond, and evidently they are by the same artist, unknown. Whether they are actual likenesses I do not know. The artist was evidently another doctor, hence the professional subjects for his scissors. Dr. McCaw was the son of Dr. James McCaw, a Scottish surgeon of Wigonshire, Scotland, who came to Virginia in 1771 and settled near Norfolk. Dr. James McCaw, Jr., was a pupil of Benjamin Bell at Edinburgh and later a graduate in medicine of the University of Edinburgh. After his return to Virginia he practiced in Richmond until his death in 1842.
This silhouete contains a full body image labelled simply McClurg. There is a drawing of a room around the silhouette, and an orange wax seal on the face of the picture.
Silhouette of Dr. James McClurg, black profile of his face on a white background. On reverse: Dr. James McClurg (1745-1823) was a very prominent physician of Williamsburg, Va. and in the Revolutionary War. Son of Dr. Walter McClurg, a wealthy physician of Elizabeth City Co., Va. Graduate of Wm. & Mary College, 1762 and of Univ. of Edinburgh in Medicine 1770, later studied for three years in hospitals of London and Paris. This old silhouete was found between the leaves of a copy of Heister's surgery, which bears Dr. McClurg's autograph on the title page and front cover, which I bought in New York some years ago. Probably at the time it was cut it was placed there and forgotten while waiting to get some black paper to place behind it. The black paper and frame are modern.
A silhouette of Ephraim McDowell, M. D. (1771-1830). He is facing right and the silhouette is a head and shoulders view. On the reverse: Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830) By birth a Virginian, by adoption a Kentuckian, and by his (missing) a leader of the Medical World --designated as "The Father of Ovariotomy." In 1809 in a small Kentucky village, threatened by a mob of the patient's friends if he were not successful, he removed a large ovarian tumor that was rapidly hastening to a fatal termination of the patient. Within the next seven years he did two more successfully operations for similar trouble before reporting them. By 1820 he had operated seven times, with but one death. This original silhouette portrait of McDowell was given to Dr. Elisha Bartlett, an admirer of McDowell, who was professor of the Theory & Practice of Medicine at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky from 1841-1844. In the latter year when leaving Kentucky to take a chair in the University of Maryland, he presented it with one of himself to one of his favorite pupils, Dr. Fielding Davis of Woodford County, Kentucky. Dr. Davis being a great uncle of mine presented these silhouettes to me in 1905 shortly before his death. For his medical education, McDowell returned to Virginia, where he read medicine with Dr. Alexander Humphreys of Staunton, who in 1794 assisted Dr. Jessee Bennett perform the first successful Cesarean Section in America. After reading medicine with Dr. Humphreys, McDowell went to Edinburgh in 1793 where he remained for the session of 1793-94, but left without obtaining his degree. In 1839 without solicitation the Unversity of Maryland conferred the degree of M. D. upon him.
A silhouette of Dr. and Mrs. McFarlane. The silhouettes are full figure and they are facing each other. On the matt below the silhouette: John Macfarlane, M. D. (born 1796 -died 1869) Graduates M.D. 1824 Univ. of Glasgow. 1826-1832 was surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow. President 1832-1834. In 1852 succeeded Dr. Wm. Thompson in the Chair of Medicine, retired from the University in 1862. Mrs. Macfarlane was Miss Mary Gray Edington. From the collection of original Edouart silhouettes of Mrs. Nevill Jackson. Artist: Auguste Edouart
This is a silhouette of Dr. John Peter Mettauer. It is framed with a glass matte surrounded by a wooden frame. On the reverse, "Of the many able men the Old Dominion has given to the medical profession, Mettauer was, unquestionably, the most remarkable. By nature, a great surgeon, he also was an able physician, and a voluminous contributor to medical literature. His marvelous surgical skill and ingenuity soon obtained for him such a reputation that, despite the fact of his work lying in an obscure country village and before the days of numerous railroads patients flocked to him from all around, some even from abroad. He performed almost, if not every operation known in his day and it is certain he did more than 800 operations for cataract. In operations for vesical calculus, his operation exceeded by 175, Dudley's 225 . . . . . . To him unquestionably belongs the priority for the cure of vesico-vaginal fistula. His first successful operation was done in August 1838, and preceded Dr. Hayward's by a year and Sims' by ten. He was the first surgeon in Va. and one of the first in the U.S. to operate successfully for cleft palate, his 1st operation having been done in 1827. The most notable of his articles was one entitled 'The Continued fever of Middle Virginia from 1816 to 1829' which shows conclusively that he recognized Typhoid fever as a distinct disease, and was familiar with its characteristic lesions. For further account of his surgical and medical work and his work as a teacher in the Randolph-Macon Medical College, formerly known as Mettauer's Medical Institute, and in the Washington Univ. of Baltimore, see sketch in Kelly's Am. Med. Biographies, and Dr. Geo. Ben Johnson's Presidential Address to the American Surgical Association in 1905. 'He would never assist in an operation, having an insuperable objection to matching another's work. He was also remarkable for the care and detail of his preparation for an operation, being far ahead of his time in this.' 'He invariably wore a tall stovepipe hat which nothing could induce him to remove, and he wore it everywhere and, on all occasions, even at meals and it is said also in bed. He never attended service in any church, a fact attributed to his unwillingness to remove his hat. When called upon to testify in court, he always declined to remove his headgear. He even left directions that he should be buried in it, so that it was necessary to have a coffin made eight feet long to allow for this.' Dr. Mettauer was the son of Dr. Francis Joseph Mettauer, one of two brothers who came as regimental surgeons with Gen. Lafayette. After the battle of Yorktown his regiment was stationed in Pr. Edward Co., and he was persuaded to settle there after the war, where he married Elizabeth Gaulding, and his son was born. Dr. John Peter Mettauer was graduated A.B. from Hampden-Sydney College in 1806, also rec'd degrees of A.M. and LLd. later in life. In 1809 took his degree of M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania."
A framed silhouette of John Morgan, M. D. (1735-1789). The subject is facing right and it is a head and shoulders view. There are three painted stars on the frame. On the reverse: Dr. John Morgan, / (1735-1789) / Founder of the 1st. Medical College in America, educated at Findley's Academy, Nottingham, Md., A. B. College of Philadelphia, 1757; read medicine under Dr. John Redman for 13 months, then to London where he studied with the Hunters, then to Edinburgh where he took his M. D. in 1763. Founded the Medical Department of the College of Philadelphia in 1765 (now the Univ. of Penn.). He succeeded Dr. Benjamin Church in Oct. 1775 as Medical Director of the Continental Army which he held for about a year. Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital 1773-1783. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Englan. He did without issue Oct. 15, 1789.
Silhouette of Valentine Mott and Valentine Seaman. Both are full body images and are facing left. There is a background behind the silhouettes by Wm. H. Broum. The background image contains a fireplace to the proper right with a vase and flowers on the mantel and a painting in the upper center. On the reverse of the frame: To DR. J. W. Francis from Dr. Valentine Mott, 1857. Later, property of Master G. Condon and Condon estate.
This frame includes two silhouettes, Drs. James Moultrie, Sr. and Jr., with a glass matte surrounded by a wooden frame. Each of their faces are directed towards the right. On reverse: "These silhouettes cut about 1812-20 represent two members of one of South Carolina's most distinguished 'medical families' which in four generations covered one hundred and forty years continuous practice in Charleston. They were: Dr. John Moultrie, Sr. of French Hougonot descent who came from Scotland to Charleston prior to 1729 and until his death in 1773 'he stood at the very head of his profession in that city, and was especially distinguished for his skill in obstetrics and his death was regarded as a public calamity.' His eldest son- Dr. John Moultrie, Jr. was the first native American to graduate in Medicine abroad. He took his degree at Univ. of Edinburgh in 1749, defending as his inaugural thesis 'Febre maligna biliosa Americae' (Yellow Fever), a rare copy of which is in my collection. 'He was a distinguished scholar and eminent practitioner of medicine in Charleston.' During the Revolution he was a Royalist or Tory, though his younger brother William (1731-1805) was a distinguished general in the Continental Army. It is uncertain whether he was the uncle or father of-- Dr. James Moultrie, Sr., who like the others is said to have been a most scholarly and distinguished member of the profession for many years in Charleston, and was succeeded by his son Dr. James Moultrie, Jr. (1793-1869) whom he sent to England for part of his education. However he returned to America for his medical education and received his degree of M.D. at the age of 19 from the Univ. of Pa. in 1812. During his long life he held a most distinguished position in the profession in South Carolina. Was a surgeon in the War of 1812; physician to the Port of Charleston; and as early as 1822 began working to establish a medical college in Charleston, which was accomplished in 1824 and for many years he was professor of physiology. He was a member of two important French Medical Societies; of his state Medical Society which sent him as a delegate in 1847 to help establish the American Medical Ass'n of which he was elected one of its first vice-presidents and in 1851 president. Though he was married in 1816 he never had any children.
This is a silhouette of Joseph Parish, black profile image of his head on a white background. On reverse: Joseph Parish, 1779-1840. A fine silhouette cut by the famous Charles Wilson Peale of this celebrated Philadelphia physician, who from 1805 to 1829 was on the staffs of The Philadelphia Dispensary, The Philadelphia Almshouse, and The Philadelphia Hospital. He was associated in the establishment of the Wills Hospital, an active member of the College of Physicians, editor of the North American Medical & Surgical Journal, lecturer on anatomy, chemistry, and materia medica to private classe. Author of a text on Strangulated Hernia and Diseases of the Urinary Organs, etc. See Kelly's medical biographies.
Silhouette of Baily Powell of Loudoun County, Virginia. The silhouette is a head and shoulders view with the subject facing right. On the reverse: (photocopy) in script: Baily Powell of Loudon C [missing text] as a physician as shown by the several [illegible] of the Apothecary shop of Drs. Mackey and [illegible].
This group of two silhouettes includes Dr. WIlliam Hall Richardson and Dr. Benjamin Winslow Dudley, black images of faces on white background. On the reverse, "These silhouette portraits of two of the most distinguished members of the Medical Faculty of the old Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky., were purchased at a small antique shop in Louisville, Ky. in 1920 when I was visiting my mother. The calgraphic finish to the busts, being exactly the same as that of a silhouette of my great, great grandfather, Thomas Davis, of Woodford County, Ky., which we know was cut by an unknown artist who was with Ollendorf and Mason's Wax Works, exhibited at the Kentucky Hotel, Lexington, in August, 1809. Who announced through the Lexington papers that they 'Respectfully acquaint the ladies and gentlemen of Lexington and Vicinity that they have opened at the Kentucky Hotel a new and elegant collection of wax figures if not superior to any exhibited in America.' Among others mentioned were: 'An excellent representation of Geo. Washington giving orders to the Marquis de la Fayette, his aid,' General Bonaparte in Marshall Action,' 'The Duel between Alex. Hamilton and Aaron Burr,' and many other famous personages. At the end of the advertisement it is stated: 'Profiles taken with accuracy at the Museum.' Both the family silhouette and this have similar painted mats. Dr. William Hall Richardson (d. 1844) was elected to the Chair of Obstetrics at the organization of the Medical Dept. of Transylvania University in 1815 and continued in his connection with the faculty until his death. "He was a man of great energy and many admirable traits of character." His old home 'Caneland' with his name on the old brass knocker, still stands near Lexington. Educated at the Univ. of Penn. 1804. See Hist. of Transylvania Univ. Dr. Benjamin Winslow Dudley (1785-1870) 'was a long time the unrivaled surgeon of the Mississippi Valley, one of the founders of the earliest of our western schools of medicine.' In 1804 went to the medical department of the Univ. of Pa. having as fellow students the later famous physicians, Daniel Drake, John Esten Cooke, and Wm. H. Richardson, all of whom were later associated with him on the Faculty of Transylvania. Was graduated in 1806, and then 1810 to 1814 spent four years in the hospitals of Paris and London. For extensive biography see Hist. of Transylvania University, Kelly's Med. Biographies and other biographical works. A curious incident in connection with these two old doctors is that--in 1817 Dr. Dudley became involved in a quarrel with Dr. Daniel Drake, Prof. of Materia Medica, which becoming quite bitter, Dudley challenged Drake to fight a duel. Drake refused, and then Drake's friend Dr. Richardson (also a friend of Dudley) accepted the challenge for Drake. At the first fire the inguinal artery in Richardson's groin was severed by Dudley's ball, and he would have speedily bled to death, but for Dudley's skill and magnanimity. He immediately asked permission to stop the hemmorhage, which he did with his thumb until Richardson's surgeon could apply a tournequet. From this time on Dudley and Richardson were even greater friends than they had been previously."
Silhouette of Dr. Andrew Robertson, head and shoulders view and the subject is facing left. On the reverse: Dr. Andrew Robertson, (1716-1795) born in Scotland, graduated from the University of Edinburgh, entered the British Army and served three years in Flanders, being present at the battle of Fontency in 1745. Ten years later he came with his regiment to America and was in the disastrous campaign against Ft. DuQuesne. With Twenty men he managed to escape the carnage of Braddock's defeat and made his way to Dunbar's camp, to which the remnant of the army under Col. Washington had retreated. Soon after this he resigned his commission and emigrated to Virginia with his wife and child. They settled in Lancaster County where he acquired a high reputation and an extensive practice, and was especially noted for his charity and attention to the indigent sick. He acquired considerable wealth and was married four times, the last wife being his first patient when he came to Va.--at that time she was a little girl with measles. He contributed many articles to the Medical press of his day, most of them being published in the London Medical Inquiries and Observations. Like most physicians of his day who held a high reputation heattracted many students, among whom was Henry Cary Hampton, son of Henry Hampton of "Buckland," Prince William County,Va., a first cousin of Gen. Wade Hampton of the Revolution of South Carolina. Dr. Hampton studied under Dr. Robertson for two years and received from him a certificate of proficiency in August 1775. (This is still preserved by his descendants. Folded up with this certificate and other papers was this silhouette bearing inscription as shown.). Instead of the ususal commercial black paper this seems to be on of those rare "smoke stained" silhouettes, in which the black is derived from pine soot and beer, or candle smoke collected on a plate and mixed with sizing. Note the stain of it where the paper has been folded over. This silhouette came to me from my wife--a great granddaughter of Dr. Hampton.
Silhouette of Dr. Henry Rose of Westmoreland County, Virginia. He is facing left and it is a head and shoulders view. On the reverse: Dr. Henry Rose of Westmoreland County, Virginia. This silhouette (identified by the name under the picture) was purchased about 1898 or 1899 in Alexandria, Va. (during a visit there) together with those of Dr. John Morgan and Wm. Shippen, which had been presented to Dr. Rose by Shippen --see his note on back of Morgan portrait. So far I have found no biographical sketch of Dr. Rose, but do have an original copy of his inaugural thesis for the degree of M.D. from the Univ. of Penn. on the 19th of May 1794, on the subject of "Effects of the Passions Upon the Body" which he dedicates to Dr. Shippen ---"A Man whose character, as a Professor, is deservedly considered in many respects as unparalled, and as a physician and a citizen, justly stands in the highest point of esteem, &c. &c...... and gratitude will not allow me to pass unnoticed the undisguised acts of friendship and hospitality I always experienced within your walls, etc. etc."
This is a silhouette of Dr. John Royster, a profile of his face, black image on white background. On reverse: Dr. John Royster, presented by Dr. Lawrence Royster.
This is a profile image of the head of Dr. William Shippen, Jr., a black image on a white background. On reverse: Dr. William Shippen, Jr., (1736-1808) "The first in America to lecture on midwifery, and to establish a hospital for its teaching." Son of prominent Philadelphia physician. A.B. Princeton, 1754; M.D. Edinburgh, 1761. Had previously studied under his father, 1754-58, and 1758-9 anatomy under John Hunter and midwifery under William Hunter in London. He turned to Phila. and in Nov. 1762 opened a private school for lectures, dissections, and demonstrations in Anatomy, & Surgery. Joined Morgan in founding Phila. Med. Coll. in 1765, holding the chairs of Anatomy & Surgery; and was the only member of the old faculty who became a member of the faculty of the Univ. of Penn. on its creation in 1779. Succeeded Morgan as Director General of the Medical forces of the Continental Army, which caused an estrangement through no fault of Shippen. The inscription on the back of the Morgan silhouette would indicate this was healed before Morgan died.
A profile image of Thomas Lee Shippen On reverse: This silhouette and its companion were purchased Nov. 23, 1926 from Mr. J.J. Schwarz, N. Howard St. Baltimore, and are a most happy "find." Mr. Schwarz said they were sold to him by a Mrs. Carr living outside of Baltimore, and were said to be portraits of Gen. Washington and a son of Robt. Fulton, inventor of the steamboat. She had no proof, and such data as he found on the back of the silhouettes proved this a mistake. On the card back of this portrait are the initials "T.L.S. 1792," and the card back of the other bears the name "W. Shippen." Folded under the wood-on back of this frame is an old advertisement of "John King's Gold & Silver Leaf Manufactory, S.W. Corner Dock and Walnut St., Philadelphia." King was a prominent manufacturer of gold leaf and fine frames in Phila. the first quarter of the 19th century and probably the last decade of the 18th. Only small fragments of paper pasted on back of this portrait mount are left, but that over the other portrait is still present and bears the following inscription: "By Mrs. Beetham, 26 Fleet St., & 18 Judd Place West, haw Roads, London;" and below "Opened by G. Young and M.W. Pierce, Baltimore, Md. No. 7 Lexington St., Sept. 17, 1874." Evidently they, too, were looking for evidence of the claim of its being a Washington portrait. Apparently the name "W. Shippen" and initials "T.L.S." meant nothing to either them or Mr. S. Thomas Lee Shippen, M.D. (1768-1798), only son of the famous Philadelphia physician, Wm. Shippen, Jr. (1736-1808) and his wife a daughter of Thomas Lee of Virginia. He was well educated having four years abroad in completing his course in medicine. Dr. Caspar Wistar in 1808 spoke of him as a "man of talents and information" and that his father "gave him the fairest portion of his estate, and , to obtain leisure and exemption from care, procured the establishment of an adjunct professorship of anatomy." But his health failed and he died in 1798 almost prostrating his father, who had held such hopes for the career of his son. Dr. T.L. Shippen married Elizabeth Carter Farley and had a son, William Shippen, born Jan. 29, 1792, died June 5, 1867. He was the fourth Doctor Shippen in direct line, and the 3rd. who was professor of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania.
A silhouette of William Shippen, Jr., M.D. (1736-1808). Shippen was the son of Dr. William Shippen (1712-1801) and his wife Susannah Harrison. William Shippen, Jr. was educated at Nottingham Academy, Maryland, under the famous Rev. Samuel Finley; was graduated A. B. from Princeton in 1754; read medicine under his father until 1758 when he went to London, where he studied anatomy with John Hunter. Obstetrics with Wm. Hunter; also had work with Sir John Pringle, Dr. Wm. Hewson and others and took his degree of M. D. from the Univ. of Edinburgh in 1762. Returned to Philadelphia and began giving private lectures, dissections and demonstrations in Anatomy, Surgery and Midwifery. With Dr. John Morgan founded the Philadelphia Medical College (now the Univ. of Penn.) in 1765 --the first medical school in America, and continued on the faculty until his death in 1808. One of the founders of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and of it 1805-1808. Saw active service in charge of Military Hospitals of the Continental forces, etc. Caspar Wistar, who knew Dr. Shippen intimately gives a delightful pen picture of him: "His person was graceful, his manners polished, his conversation various, and the tones of his voice singularly sweet and conciliatory. In his intercourse with society he was gay without proverbial for good temper. His father whom he strongly resembled in this respect, during the long life of ninety years had scarcely ever been seen out of humor. He was also particularly agreeable to young people. Known as he was to almost every citizen of Philadelphia, it is probably that there was no one who did not wish him well." It is most unfortunate that this portrait was unsealed in 1874 as that probably accounts largely for its present state of disrepair. It was evidently painted while Dr. Shippen was visiting England when his son was there as Mrs. Beetham never came to America as did Hubbard and Edouart who were celebrated silhouettists.
This silhouette is a profile of Dr. Nathan Smith's face, black image on white background.On reverse: Dr. Nathan Smith (1762-1869) Kelly's Am. Med. Biographies, page 1073, 2nd, ed., says: "Nathan Smith was one of the great pioneers of American Medicine, and during his lifetime was the omnirpresent genius in New England Medicine." Rec'd degree of Bachelor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School in 1790, the 5th. student to from the medical school in the third class. In 1811, the degree of M.D. was conferred upon all previous graduates in medicine from this school which included Dr. Smith. In 1796 he began his efforts to establish a school of medicine at Dartmouth College, and in the fall of 1797, after taking special courses in Edinburgh and London, he delivered his first course of lectures in medicine at Dartmouth. In 1798, the Trustees established the medical dept. with Dr. Smith as professor, lecturing on anatomy, surgery, chemistry and physics. As Abrahm Flennor remarked in speaking of this the 4th medical in America, "Nathan Smith was its entire faculty and a very able faculty at that." In 1812 Yale College established its medical department and invited Dr. Smith to become professor of Theory & Practice of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics, which he accepted. There were thirty members in the first class of 1813. He was thus associated with the founding of the 6th. medical college in the U.S. In 1821 the med. dept. of Bowdoin College was organized with summer lectures and Dr. Smith gave these until 1825, and continued his work at Yale in the winter. For extensive biographical sketch see Kelly's book, 1073-1076. I purchased this silhouette in Jan. 1926 from Russell Nugent. Central Park, Long Island.
Washington's silhouette is a full body image with the subject facing right. The scenery behind the silhouette is a pencil sketch with mountains in the distant background. On the reverse: Dr. Bailey Washington, son of Lawrence Washington, nephew of George Washington, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia May 12, 1787; died in Washington City, August 4, 1854. He was graduated in medicine in 1810 from the University of Pennsylvania, Surgeon in the U. S. Navy in 1813, and during the War of 1812 was surgeon on the "Enterprise" when she captured the "Boxer." Later on Lake Ontario was selected as Fleet surgeon, although a junior officer. Still later served as Fleet Surgeon in the Mediterranean, and closed his service in the Navy during the Mexican War. At the time of his death was visiting Surgeon of the Navy Yard and Marine Barricks, Washington. This silhouette signed by Edouart and on original mount often used by that famous silhouettest, bears on the back the figure "B. Washington, M. D. 16 August 1841, Washington, D. C." Artist: Auguste Edouart