American Red Cross nurse aiding wounded soldier in battlefield
Description:
Title from item., Date derived from subject and uniforms depicted., Place of publication from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Mounted on linen.
Publisher:
The Atlantis Press, Boston
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Military, Nursing, World War, 1914-1918, Trench warfare, Foxholes, Nurses, Soldiers, Wounds & injuries, and Battlefields
Codman and Shurtleff Streeter, Edward Clark (1874-1947)
Published / Created:
1870
Collection Title:
Medical Instrument Collection
Container / Volume:
Box 022
Image Count:
6
Description:
A rectangular wooden box made of rosewood and fitted with velvet trays, holding a number of instruments including
a trephining set (including two trephines and a brush), a capital saw, an elevator, a Hey's saw, a catling knife, a pair of bone forceps, a spiral tourniquet, a metacarpal saw, a pair of artery forceps, a tenaculum, two amputating knives, and an amputating scalpel.
Subject (Name):
Bernard Kosto, M.D. and Yale University. School of Medicine.
Elijah W. Carpenter attended the first session of the Medical institution of Yale College in 1813-1814. He stayed only one year and did not obtain an M.D. from Yale. This engraving is located in the Elijah W. Carpenter papers. Inscription: "J. G. Chandler Lith. Boston."
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Carpenter, Elijah W., 1778-1855 and Yale College (1718-1887). Medical Institution
The plate design is such that it looks like the outside of a mausoleum, including columns, carvings, and other design. At the top are two portraits. Below is the dedication Bibliothecæ in Quibus tan quam Mausolæis Priscorum Sanctorum Reliquiæ Virtutis Plenæ Conditeæ Sunt. Additionally, enclosed is a letter dated 1922 that indicates Dr. Dane had stopped collecting bookplates.
Fulton, John F. (John Farquhar), 1899-1960, Yale University. School of Medicine. Department of History of Medicine, and Yale University. School of Medicine. Department of Physiology
Subject (Topic):
Faculty, Medical, Medical historians, and Physiologists
Color; Shows original building (North Building) of hospital. and Inscription: The Metropolitan News and Publishing Co., Boston, Mass. and Germany, No. G 15 002.; Made in Germany.
Publisher:
Metropolitan News and Publishing Co.
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, New Haven (Conn.), and New Haven Hospital (New Haven, Conn.)