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Title comes from penciled note on page from book with illustration. Title under illustration states that heroic doctor, who seems to be performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, died "for an unknown child."

Village physician in his consulting room with a woman holding a little boy; bundles of herbs hang from the ceiling. Illustration is from Cosmorama oder dei..., Zurich.

Color title page in mat of third edition of work by Wilburt C. Davison, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University, 1940, adapted from Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, 1653.

Ruby glass stemmed cups of various sizes, ruby glass dispenser (sugar?), small oval china serving plate, and silver spoon. Probably pharmaceutical set. May be in Trent Collection at Duke.

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.