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"The craft in danger" [group of top-hatted men riding on and belaboring a mounted mega fauna fossil skeleton], matted lithograph by John Key, 1817 box size: 16.5 x 20.5 inches
Box 16 > Folder 3

Penciled note indicates it is by John Key, 1817, on the proposal for a comparative anatomy course at Edinburgh University.

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"Il caso interessante" [group of doctors examining leg of beautiful woman], matted color lithograph, Italy, by P. Folli, early 20th century box size: 16.5 x 20.5 inches
Box 16 > Folder 3

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"L'intervento chirurgico" [group of surgeons in 18th century wigs, hacking apart a patient on operating table with cleavers, mallets, and saws], matted color lithograph, Italian, by P. Folli, early 20th century box size: 16.5 x 20.5 inches
Box 16 > Folder 3

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"The Philadelphia physician-factory," by James Albert Wales, published in Puck, color lithograph mounted on board, 1880 April 14
Box 20 > Folder 11

Shows the "diploma mill" in action at Philadelphia Medical College, operated by "Professor Grind-em-out."

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"Modern medical events," 1950 [humorous poster of history of medicine in North America]
Oversize-folder 2

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Cartoons 24 items

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"Another form of mortsafe in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh," black-and-white photograph, early 20th century
Box 12 > Folder 14

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Cemeteries 1 item

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Historical medical apparatuses from the London Science Museum: a chart (Dalton's elements), and one diagram, "Chrysopoeia," undated, modern black-and-white photographs box size: 11.5 x 15 inches
Box 14 > Folder 5

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Chemistry 6 items

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Illustration from "Rosegarten," a work by Eucharius Rösslin [midwife seated on stool examining patient in birth chair], modern black-and-white photograph of 1513 engraving
Box 12 > Folder 15

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Illustration from Della commare, Girolamo Mercurio, modern black-and-white photograph of engraving depicting Caesarean section, circa 1642,
Box 12 > Folder 15

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Physician seated on stool assisting birth, with two female attendants, consultation of stars in background, modern photograph of black-and-white engraving from circa 17th century
Box 12 > Folder 15

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"Post T[H]amar geminos vitales aedit in auras possitur ad poenas sic stat sententia Iudae," black-and-white engraving [Dutch?] [bedchamber of woman who just gave birth to twins, surrounded by female attendants], 17th century? box size: 16.5 x 20.5 inches
Box 16 > Folder 4

After the work by Martin Heemskerck, 16th century painter, representing Biblical story of Judah and Tamar, birth of Pharez and Zarah. The creator could also be the painter himself.

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"Birth of St. Edmund," color lithograph, 19th century box size: 16.5 x 20.5 inches
Box 16 > Folder 4

Reproduction of medieval illustration of bedchamber after birth; H. Shaw, lithographer.

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Childbirth 5 items

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"Ceremonie de peuples de Guinée pour la circoncision d'un enfant," black-and-white engraving, 1700s?
Box 12 > Folder 16

Tribesmen with spears standing in a semi-circle around a woman holding the hand of a small boy; a snake is in the foreground.

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"Die Beschneidung Christi," hand-colored engraving of clergy circumcising infant Christ, undated
Box 12 > Folder 16

Number 52 of an edition of 187.

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"Die Beschneidung Christi," St. Gilgen circumsising the infant Christ, painted by Pacher, circa 1932, black-and-white print illustration
Box 12 > Folder 16

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Circumcision 3 items

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