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HOW TO ORDER REPRODUCTIONS

Photographic  prints  (in  a flossy or  matte
finish) and lantern slides of pictorial works in
the  collection may be ordered on a  prepaid
basis at a nominal charge.   Cost estimates are
available on request:
Art Section, National  Library of Medicine
7th  & Independence  Ave.  SW., Washington
25, D. C.
A SELECTED SUBJECT GUIDE
Alchemy
Amputation
Anatomy
Apothecaries
Blood-letting
Cholera epidemics
Civil war hospitals
Doctors—in fine art
Early dental and surgical
instruments
Gout
Hospitals  in the United
States and foreign countries
Hospital ships
Medicine  in art

Military hospitals in the
United States
Nobel Prize Winners
 in Medicine
Obstetrical chairs
Plague
Quackery
Surgery in art
Therapeutics in
caricature
Yellow Fever
U. S. DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH, EDUCATION.  AND WELFARE
NATIONAL  LIBRARY OF
           MEDICINE
            U. S. DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE
               Public Health Service 
NATIONAL  LIBRARY OF MEDICINE   •  A  GLIDE  TO  THE  ART COLLECTION
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   .A.   he art collection of the National Library of Medicine
covers a wide range of illustrations relating to medicine and the
allied sciences.  Among the 60,000 or more items in the collection
are original woodcuts, etchings, fine engravings, and oil paintings
on a variety of subjects from ALCHEMY to YELLOW FEVER.
Other pictorial items include portraits of the  great men of
medicine, photographs of military and civilian hospitals, pictures
showing medical treatment  and  its  progressive development,
and many  other nonclinical illustrations revealing the art and
science of  healing through the ages.


   f^   ORTRAITS
    One of the largest of its kind, the Portrait Collection con-
tains over 28,000 portraits, in a variety of media, of outstanding
men and  women of medicine, of yesterday and today.  Portraits
of all Nobel Prize Winners in  medicine and  physiology are
among the  many portraits in this growing collection.
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                            EDICAL  CARICATURES
                      Medical satire is reflected in a large collection of caricatures,
                  in color and black-and-white, by a variety of well-known artists
                  such as Rowlandson, Cruickshank, Hogarth, and Daumier.


                    \XM   ISCELLANEOUS PICTORIAL ITEMS
                      The pictorial history of medicine is also revealed in a collec-
                  tion of lantern slides, maps, posters, hospital plans and sketches,
                  and  in  a  "library"  of book-plates of physicians and  medical
                  institutions.

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