A man draped in cloth is seated on a coat of arms. He wears a mortar board on his head and holds a caduceus. There is a ship on the left; a skull, and a few books and papers at his feet.
Subject (Name):
Bishop, Louis FaugeÃÄres, 1864-1941 and Yale School of Medicine
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
1939
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
The Cushing family coat of arms (with the phrase Virtute et Numine is at the top-left corner of border wrapped in leaves and ribbon, with the initials of family members who have gone on to become doctors, and the dates of their degrees or beginning of practice. At top center is a skull with a snake wrapped around it. At the bottom is a caduceus. Inside the image, at bottom center, is the signature of Harvey Cushing. Beneath the image is the text "Yale Medical Library Bequest of 1939."
Subject (Name):
Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Libraries, Nature, Neurosurgeons, Skull, Snakes, and Yale Medical Library
A man and a winged woman, both nude, with an oval between them with a large caduceus in the center. At the top are seals of three universities: The University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, and Fordham. At the bottom are various sketches of books, pens, skulls, a lamp, etc..
Subject (Name):
Seliger, Robert V. (Robert Victor), b. 1900
Subject (Topic):
Books, Medical historians, Seal, Snakes, and Woman
A caduceus is at the center of this plate, flanked by a combined lightning bolt and a nuclear power symbol to the left and an older doctor's kit and bottles to the right. A double border consists of a bold, outer line with EKG-lines on the inside. An enclosed note states that Robert Frelick was the director of the isotope laboratory and a neighborhood family practice. He did consulting work for other chemical industries, reading all of their EKGs.
At the center of the bookplate, seven distinguished individuals are featured, with a laurel wreath surrounding the portrait. A caduceus and a quill pen intersect with each other in the background. Beneath the image is an open book; above is the motto Vita humana est sacra.
Subject (Name):
Zakon, Samuel J.
Subject (Topic):
Books, Pens, Physicians, Portraits, Snakes, and Sword
A skeleton and a stork each holding a cloth with a baby at center. A banner above, held up by two caducei, reads Non est Vivere, sed Valere, uta. Beneath the baby is Aesculapius standing on a stack of books.
Image of Hippocrates, to which a caduceus is to the left, and Hippocrates written vertically with a pair of wings atop to the right. A phrase written in Greek at the bottom.