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colored plate of a child with measles. The top of the page shows a child's head with their eyes closed and laying on a pillow. Red bumps of various sizes and shapes cover their face. In the center of the page the words "Rubeola vulgaris" are written in script. The bottom of the page shows a child's arm with red bumps covering the hand and forearm.

Rubeola vulgaris - Measles

plate 20, color illustration of measles

black and white facsimile of 1678 broadside with large heading "A brief rule" and smaller font "to guide the common-people of New England how to order themselves and theirs in the small pocks or measles." Under the heading, the broadside is split into to columns with small print covering thirty suggestions and signed "A friend, readers, to they welfare, Thomas Thacher November 21, 1677.

A brief rule to guide the common-people of New England by Thomas Thacher

facsimile of the 1677 broadside

Title page of Thomas Sydenham's Opera Universa Quibus accedunt additiones novae in red and black text with several manuscript notes in the margins

Opera Universa by Thomas Sydenham

Title page of Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem

Title page reads Iagttaglser, anstillede under Maelinge-Epidemien paa Faroerne i Aaret 1846. Af Cand. med. & chir. P.L. Panum. Bibliothek for Laeger, Copenhagen 1847, pp. 270-344.

Iagttagelser, anstillede under Maeslinge-Epidemien paa Faroerne i Aaret 1846

Title page for typed translation of Observations made during the epidemic of measles on the Faroe Islands in the year 1846

Rhazes's Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles

Title page of report by Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Rhazes, c900AD

The first two pages of John McVail's lecture on the prevention of measles, which he points out mostly effects children and is not helped by the usual public sanitation methods. Included is a chart on the death rate from measles per million in England and Scotland from 1855 to 1905, to show that it is a dangerous disease mostly due to complications it can cause.

The Prevention of Measles by John McVail

Lane Lectures at Cooper Medical College compiled as The Prevention of Infectious Diseases

color map of the North Atlantic Ocean from 2025 showing location of the Faroe Islands in relation to Iceland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Norway.

map showing Faroe Islands

color map showing North Atlantic Ocean and surrounding countries

Bright orange paper sign with printed warning "Measles: All persons are notified of the presence of this disease and on account of its being so contagious are warned against visiting or coming in contact with those sick with it." E.G. Carper, Health Officer and Edward Martin, Commissioner of Health.

Measles quarantine sign, c1920

bright orange printed sign declaring the presence of measles and its contagiousness. Pennsylvania Department of Health officers listed on bottom: E.G. Carper and Edward Martin.

Thomas Sydenham

portrait of Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)

Peter Panum (1820-1885)

black and white portrait of Peter Panum

page from the 1969 University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine yearbook showing an article and five black and white photographs about Freedom House Ambulance Service.

1969 Hippocratean, page 203

article about Freedom House Ambulance Service in University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine yearbook

color photograph of Dr. Nancy Caroline standing in a Freedom House ambulance.

Dr. Nancy Caroline, 1975

color photograph of Dr. Nancy Caroline in a Freedom House ambulance, 1975

Portrait of Peter Safar standing in a white lab coat

Dr. Peter Safar, 1986

Black and white photograph of Peter Safar in white lab coat

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Freedom House Ambulance Service: An Assessment of Program Activities

Nursing Procedures for Presbyterian and Women's Hospitals

Mimeographed book of nursing procedures for two hospitals in Pittsburgh. 169 pages. Illustrated.

Picture of officer at 27th General Hospital

Aerial view of the U.S. Army 27th General Hospital

Entrance to 27th General Hospital

Picture from 27th General Hospital

New Guinea beach

World War I Allied Propaganda Medal

Unsigned. Remembering German atrocities of the World War I. Obverse: A Fury of War, personified by a naked woman on a horse, riding to left, with a torch in her left hand, and Paris in flames under the hooves; at left, NACH / PARIS in two lines, and at right, 1914. Reverse: In the field, between two separation marks, LOUVAIN / THE LUSITANIA / EDITH CAVELL / CAPT. FRYATT / THE ZEPPELIN / VICTIMS in six parallel lines; in a curve around, from lower left THE PRUSSIAN IS CRUEL BY BIRTH CIVILIZATION WILL MAKE HIM FEROCIOUS – GOETHE - .

Rudolf Ludwig Virchow Medal

Silver. 1902. Unsigned. Posthumous. Honoring the great man, physician and teacher on his death. Obverse: Clothed bust to right, wearing spectacles, framed by laurel branches crossed and tied below; in field at right, RUDOLPH / VIRCHOW in two lines; the whole within a beaded circle. Reverse: DEM / EDLEN MENSCHEN / DEM GROSSEN ARTZ / UND LEHRER / cross symbol, 5 . SEPTBR. / 1902 in six lines framed below and at left by palm and laurel branches, with urn on its side on left and staff of Aesculapius topped with a torch on right of the date; the whole within a beaded circle. Edge: Number 990 incused

Andreas Vesalius Medal

Bronze. Belgium 1848. Signed. Posthumous. Commemorating famous Belgian physician. Obverse: Clothed bust to left, wearing ornamented doublet; under truncation, JOUVENEL; in a curve at left to right, ANDRE VESALE NÉ EN 1514 MORT EN 1564 Reverse: On top, several books, among them one is open, upon it, DE CORPORIS / HUM. FABRICA / LIB. VII. BASIL / 1543. In field, in sixteen parallel lines, VESALE QUE BRUXELLES A VU NAITRE / FUT LE PÈRE DE L’ANATOMIE. / 1537, APRÈS AVOIR ÉTUDIÉ ET AVOIR / OBTENU LES PLUS BEAUX SUCCÈS A / MONTPELLIER, A PARIS, A LOUVAIN, A / PADOUE ET A VENISE, FUT CHARGÉ DE / PROFESSER L’ANATOMIE ET LA CHIRURGIE / A L’UNIVERSITÉ DE PADOUE ET CE FUT L’A / QU’IL COMPOSA SON MAGNIFIQUE / OUVRAGE SUR L’ANATOMIE DU CORPS / HUMAIN. PLUS, TARD AYANT QUITTÉ / LA COUR DE MADRID QUI LUI / ÉTAIT DEVENUE INSUPPORTABLE. / IL ALLA MOURIR A ZANTE / OU LES VENTS CONTRAIRES / L’AVAIENT JETÉ.