COLOR OUR COLLECTIONS 2017

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Woodcut illustration of a fifteenth century physician’s library. From Dionysius Cato, Disticha de Moribus (Lyons: Jean de Vingle, 28 January 1497/98). Ballard 256. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

The Heart with the Auricles, &c. fill’d with Wax. From: The Anatomy of the Humane Body Illustrated with Twenty-three Copper-plates of the Most Considerable Parts All Done After the Life by William Cheselden, 1713. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Teaching watercolor of diseased bone painted by William J. Kaula in 1894 for John Collins Warren to use in teaching. https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/13338. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Ulyssis Aldrovandi, philosophi et medici Bononiensis, De reliquis animalibus ex- anguibus libri quatuor. Bononiae æ Apud Jo. Baptistam Bellagambam, 1606. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Digitalis purpurea, color plate originally printed in William Withering’s An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses, 1785. https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12628. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Lithographic print of "The Dissecting Room" by T. C. Wilson, after the original by Thomas Rowlandson, in the possession of William Tiffin Illife, Esqr. circa 1840. https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/13559. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Oliver Wendell Holmes’ bookplate. The nautilus shell is a theme in Holmes’ work, and is the inspiration for the design of his bookplate. It also serves as inspiration for the Center for the History of Medicine’s logo. https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6269. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Nekpokēdeia, or, The art of embalming., Thomas Greenhill, 1705. Available via the Medi- cal Heritage Library: https://archive.org/details/nekpokedeiaorart00gree. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Hand colored woodcut print from Hortus sanitatis (Mainz, 23 June 1491) showing the analysis of urine. https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12580. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Drawing of the head and neck, lateral view, Original drawing by H. F. Aitken for Warren's Handbook, circa 1928. http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/13554. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Illustration from Hortus sanitatis (Mainz, 1491) of a virgin and a unicorn, 23 June 1491. http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12573. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Illustration from Hortus sanitatis (Mainz, 1491) showing a serpent in an apple tree, 23 June 1491. http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12569. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Illustrated diagram of the phrenological faculties from How to Read Character by Samuel Roberts Wells, 1890. http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6190. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Etching of Dr. M. Elizabeth Reifsnyder performing surgery, circa 1885. http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12640. The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, a partnership of the Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Library #ColorOurCollections @HarvardHistMed

Illustration from Fasciculus medicinae (Venice, 1495) of the medieval medical library of Petrus de Montagnana by Johannes de Ketham, 15 October 1495. http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12570.