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Woman in fur-trimmed jacket and gown is seated in bed-chamber, doctor in fur-trimmed coat and hat stands near her with his fingers on her pulse, gazing into an upheld flask, while a female servant in the background parts a bedcurtain. Date engraved on edge of tray with quill.

Single page with four black-and-white reproductions of 19th century photographs. Cut from jacket of book, "Send Us A Lady Physician: Women Doctors in America 1835-1920," 1986

Engraving is from original by Italian Carracci. Page title is "Bildersammlung aus der Geschichte der Medizin," from Kunstbeilage 65 zur Deutschen Medizinischen Wochenschrift 1911, no. 18.

Information about image is taken from penciled note.

Penciled note on back says "Prof. G. v. Bergmann."

Mounted on board. Bears detailed engraved borders and illustrations: the Philadelphia State House, oval portraits of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and other men, and vignettes of docks, a locomotive, and workers. Signed by the City Controller and Treasurer.

Fisher, Son, & Co., London.

Scenes from a doctor's life, from paintings by medical illustrator Frank Netter, include an emergency ward, cramming for exams, a new private practice, an anatomy lab, an African American home birth, a pediatric ward in a hospital, an ambulance call, a clinic with working-class patients, on the scene at a fire, and others.