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Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Footed vessel with round body and covered in iridescent muddy gray-ish glaze
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1935
Accession Number
1972/2.181
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Native Healing, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.4
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Benjamin Rush, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Professional, moral, and physical courage of Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) was taxed to exhaustion during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia, capital of the the new United States of America. Those residents who could, fled; those who could not were decimated by disease. Horror and hysteria reigned. Hundreds died daily. Dr. Rush stayed, cared for patients, personally survived two attacks of fever. Though his heroic treatments were severly criticized, Rush was unswerving. Patriot, signer of the Declaration of Independence, leader in the country's first medical school, Dr. Rush came to be called the first great physician in the United States of America.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.21
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
The Conquest of Yellow Fever, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Methods of controlling and preventing yellow fever resulted from investigations conducted in 1900 at Camp Lazear, Cuba, by a United States Army commission led by Major Walter Reed (1851-1902). This research proved conclusively that mosquitos carry the yellow fever virus from person to person. First volunteer patient to be infected by mosquito bites was Private John Kissinger. Examining physicians were Major W. C. Gorgas, Havana sanitation officer; Dr. Aristides Agramonte, pathologist; Dr. Carlos J. Finlay, chairman of the cooperating Cuban Yellow Fever Commission and first man to point out the positive infective role of mosquitos; Dr. James Carroll, bacteriologist; and Dr. Reed, commission chairman.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.37
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Orchid and Rock
Artist
Chang Ku-nien, Liu Yantao, Gao Yihong
Physical Description
A rock dominates the image, with orchids and grasses growing next to it. Calligraphic text accompanies the image, places above the rock, with three seals.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
last quarter of 20th century
Accession Number
2006/1.131
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink on paper
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Hemlock Canyons
Artist
Mike Irolla
Physical Description
Large, turned wood vessel. Fire has been used to color and texture the surface. Bark has been left on to provide texture. The mouth of the vessel is jagged.
large burnt wood vessel with bark marking the top irregular edge
Artist Life Dates
born 1974
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
2001
Accession Number
2002/2.147
Medium and Support
hemlock
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Ceramic vessel with round body wide mouth and slightly flared lip covered in a bright blue-gold iridescent glaze
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1920
Accession Number
1972/2.169
Medium and Support
stoneware with bright blue-gold iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Ceramic vessel with short neck, rounded shoulder, flared lip and wide mouth covered in iridescent gray-green glaze
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1920
Accession Number
1972/2.199
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Mei-p'ing-shaped Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
This vase has an elegantly tapering body based on Asian sources and has a dark iridescent glaze of black and blue hues.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1916
Accession Number
1972/2.168
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Ambroise Paré: Surgery Acquires Stature
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Ambroise Paré, a young French army surgeon with troops of King François at Turin, in 1536, had his first experience treated men for arquebus wounds. Running ouf of boiling oil (traditional treatment for gunshot injuries), he improvised, discovered that unburned patients healed much better, and resolved never to use hot oil again. Countless soliders and citizens benefited from this rule. It was some years later, in 1552, that Paré put aside cautery irons used to stop bleeding in amputations and reintroduced ligatures for tying blood vessels. During his life (1510-1590), inventive, observant, compassionate Paré served as surgeon to four French kings; earned the title: "Father of Surgery."
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.13
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
J. Marion Sims: Gynecologic Surgeon, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.30
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Rubbing of Journey of the Soul to the Paradise of the Queen Mother of the West (2000/2.1) - Front
Artist
Bo Yang
Physical Description
Rubbing of limestone slab carved bas-relief with six registers. The lower register depicts a chariot procession above fish-inhabited waters. The central three registers depict figures carrying out funerary rites. The top register shows a winged creature with a human face flanked by two writhing dragons and other animals, including two rabbits and a nine-tailed fox.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1961
Century
21st century
Object Creation Date
2008
Accession Number
2008/1.154.1
Medium and Support
ink on paper
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Lone Rooster Summons the Spring
Artist
Chang Ku-nien
Physical Description
The Rooster is singled out by its expressive outlining brushwork and the vibrant red color of the comb. Its decorative flavor is also enhanced by using a specific type of paper called “cloud-dragon paper” (yunlong zhi), as the pattern of décor resembles motifs of cloud and dragon. Vertical calligraphic text in in the upper left corner.
Artist Life Dates
1906-1987
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1981
Accession Number
2006/1.112
Medium and Support
ink and color on paper
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Pike Decoy
Artist
Oscar Peterson
Physical Description
Carved wooden decoy of a Pike fish; green along dorsal region with yellow underbelly, spots and flecks of yellow, white, and black.
Artist Life Dates
1887 - 1951
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1928
Accession Number
2002/1.216
Medium and Support
carved and painted wood and painted metal
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
This small vase has a matte black glaze on the lower portion and a thick green glaze with many bubbles in it that extends from the narrow mouth across the shoulder of the vessel.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1917
Accession Number
1972/2.184
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Bowl, with cover
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Footed ceramic bowl-shaped vessel with lid and knobbed handle covered in an iridescent copper glaze
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1931
Accession Number
1954/1.476
Medium and Support
stoneware with copper iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Footed ceramic vessel with bulbous body and very large neck covered in an iridescent mottled blue glaze with striations
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1919
Accession Number
1972/2.190
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Susruta-Surgeon of Old India, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Su?ruta, famed Hindu surgeon, is depicted in the home of a noble of ancient India, about to begin an otoplastic operation. The patient drugged with wine, is steaded by friends and relatives as the great surgeon sets about fashioning an artificial ear lobe. He will use a section of flesh to be cut from the patient's cheek; it will be attached to the stump of the mutilated organ, treated with hemostatic powders and bandaged. Details of this procedure, and of Su?ruta's surgical instruments, are to be found in the "Su?ruta-samhit?," ancient Indian text. Plastic surgery was practiced in India more than 2000 years ago.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.6
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Jenner: Smallpox is Stemmed, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
The first vaccination against smallpox was performed by Edward Jenner, English rural physician, in his apartment in the Chantry House, Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Exudate from a cowpox pusule on the hand of dairymaid, Sarah Nelmes, was inserted in scratches on the arm of eight-year-old James Phipps, May 14, 1796. The vaccination was effective, for two later attempts to induce infection with smallpox pus were unsuccessful. After proving his discovery, Jenner published his vaccination findings in 1798. Despite opposition, vaccination became accepted practice during Jenner's lifetime.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.23
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Enrlich: Chemotherapy is Launched, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
In a crowded laboratory at Frankfurt's Institute of Experimental Therapy, German research scientist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) habitually scrawled work orders to associates with stubby colored pencils on "blocks" of note paper. Dr. Ehrlich and his Japanese assistant, Dr. Sahachiro Hata, announced Salvarsan (606) to the world in 1910 as a "chemical bullet" for treatment of syphilis. Dr. Ehrlich's success with chemical synthesis gave impetus to a new medical science, chemotherapy. Though his greatest achievements were in this field, Dr. Ehrlich contributed to many branches of medicine and shared in a 1908 Nobel Prize for his work on immunology.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.39
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Cross-Island Highway Based on Sketches
Artist
Chang Ku-nien
Physical Description
Painted and inscribed on the occasion of Veterans’ Day. The artist depicts a view of the narrow, winding roadway cutting through a magnificent rocky mountain.
In his inscription, Chang claims to use methods of Song masters that were adopted in painting the scene. A small detail on the lower right of the painting represents a couple of tiny figures standing aside the road. One figure is depicted as making life-sketches of the scene.
Artist Life Dates
(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1980
Accession Number
2006/1.111
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink on paper
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Sam Mackey
Artist Life Dates
1897-1992
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
1987-1992
Accession Number
2002/1.203
Medium and Support
black, blue, and red crayon on cream wove paper
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Bottle-shaped vessel with short neck, flared lip and small mouth. Vessel is covered with an iridescent glaze over a semi-matte glaze that creates the appearance of irregular patches of color. Vessel has an overall yellow-ish appearance with patches of brown.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1915
Accession Number
1972/2.171
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Tile
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Square ceramic tile with orange glaze
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1937
Accession Number
1973/2.56
Medium and Support
stoneware with orange matte glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Bowl
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Footed bowl-shaped vessel covered with an iridescent glaze over a semi-matte glaze in gray-ish blue
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1923
Accession Number
1972/2.166
Medium and Support
stoneware with matte and iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Pewabic Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
This is a tall vase with an oval shaped body. It has a short neck with a flat banded lip and the shoulder has a distinct, but rounded edge. It has a dark blue glaze and the upper portion has a golden iridescent color. The surface of the pottery is very rough with bumps and rough patches.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1909-1930
Accession Number
1997/1.186
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Sydenham: Proponent of Clinical Medicine, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), seventeenth-century London physician, at the bedside of a patient - the only place, he believed, where doctors could learn about disease. Sydenham's plain Puritan costume contrasts markedly with high-fashion raiment worn by his lifelong friend, John Locke, physician-philosopher, who frequently accompanied him on his rounds of patients. Sydenham's honest and straighforward observations, accepted and published in many countries, earned him such posthumous titles as that of the "English Hippocrates," and also the "Father of Clinical Medicine in Britain."
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.16
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Pasteur: The Chemist Who Transformed Medicine, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Proof that microbes are reproduced from parent organisms, and do not result from spontaneous generation, came from careful experiments in makeshift laboratories of France's famed chemist and biologist, Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), at the Ecole Normale, Paris. Behind him are portraits of his father and mother, which he painted during his youth. Mme. Pasteur waits patiently for him to complete an observation. From basic work in these laboratories came proof of the germ theory of disease, which transformed medical practice; vaccines for virulent diseases, including anthrax and rabies; solution of many industrial biochemical problems; and founding of the Pasteur Insitute.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.32
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Portrait of Shirley and Chen-yang Chang
Artist
Chang Ku-nien
Physical Description
A man and woman under a tree while the woman plays a type of zither. Nearby are trees in bloom with pink flowers. Writing is located in the upper left corner of the painting.
Artist Life Dates
(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1984
Accession Number
2006/1.114
Medium and Support
ink and color on paper
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Ceramic bottle-shaped footed vessel with bulbous body, narrow neck and flared mouth covered in an iridescent glaze over a semi-matte glaze that creates an appearance of irregular patches of color in greens and blues with an overall rose color.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1916
Accession Number
1972/2.188
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Bowl
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Bowl-shaped footed vessel covered with an iridescent glaze over a semi-matte glaze that creates the appearance of irregular patches of color ranging from a deep green-blue to a coppery-orange.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1920
Accession Number
1972/2.189
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Vase with two handles
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Two-handled ceramic vase covered with iridescent glaze in muted grays and creams
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1906
Accession Number
1972/2.195
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Galen, Influence for Forty-Five Generations, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Galen was a pillar of medicine; the last important pillar in the millennium of Greek domination of the medical world. Physician to emperors as well as commoners in the Roman Empire, Galen (130-220 A.D.) traveled extensively, lectured widely, wrote prolifically. The great Greek was a shrewd observer who gained much experience through experimentation. Cupping was among the forms of treatment which he advocated. Pharmacy as well as medicine benefited from his formulas, called "galenicals;" he was a leader in the health sciences of his day. Galen's teachings were accepted as dogma by both teachers and practioners of medicine for fifteen hundred years.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.8
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Conquerors of Pain, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Before a skeptical group of surgeons in the operating amphitheater of Massachusetts General Hospital, October 16, 1846, William T.G. Morton, Boston dentist, prepared to anesthetize Dr. John C. Warren's surgical patient, Gilbert Abbott, by causing him to enhale ether. Though Crawford W. Long, Georgia physician, had used ether for anesthesia in 1842, and Horace Wells, Connecticut dentist, tried unsuccessfully to demonstrate anesthesia with nitrous oxide in 1845, reports of painless operations resulting from Morton's methods gave practical anesthesia to mankind. Within a year ether was being used world-widely to conquer the pain incident to surgical operations.
Identity of persons in the picture, "Conquerors of Pain"
1. Dr. John C. Warren, operating surgeon
2. Dr. William T.G. Morton, demonstrated ether anesthesia
3. Dr. Charles F. Heywood, house surgeon
4. Gilbert Abbott, patient
5. Dr. Augustus A. Gould
6. Dr. Henry J. Bigelow
7. Dr. Solomon D. Townsend
8,9,10,11,12,13,14 Medical students
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.25
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Harvey Cushing and Neurosurgery, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Surgery on highly sensitive tissues of the brain was seldom attempted, even after anesthesia and sepsis became standard operating room procedures. Not until the early 1900's was the tremendous risk of life reduced by research and delicate surgical techniques, many of them developed and taught by Ohio-born Dr. Harvey W. Cushing, at Johns Hopkins, at Harvard and at Yale. Dr. Cushing removed 2,000 brain tumors; developed a "school" of students from many lands who put up with his pungent personality in order to learn his methods. Adolph Watzka, surgical orderly, for many years was his constant operating room companion.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.41
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
In the Spirit of Li Bai's Poetry
Artist
Chang Ku-nien
Physical Description
Green mountains create the edge of a river. Red flowers grow on the hill framing the scene in the right corner, and two boats sail the waters below. In the upper center of the painting is calligraphic text.
Artist Life Dates
(Shanghai, China, 1906 - 1987, Flint, Michigan)
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1975
Accession Number
2006/1.120
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink on paper
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Untitled
Artist
Sam Mackey
Artist Life Dates
(1897 - 1992)
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
1987-1992
Accession Number
2002/1.206
Medium and Support
blue marker, orange crayon, blue ink on cream wove paper
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Miniature Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
This small vase has a thick blue-green glaze that extends down about 3/4 of the vessel; the base remains unglazed, exposing the brownish clay body.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1935
Accession Number
1972/2.174
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Tile
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Square ceramic tile with copper and turquoise iridescent glaze
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1937
Accession Number
1973/2.58
Medium and Support
stoneware with copper and turquoise glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Ceramic vessel with rounded shoulder, large mouth and no neck or lip covered with heather green-gray glaze. The rings of the thrown clay can be seen beneath the glaze.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1923
Accession Number
1972/2.176
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Medicine in Ancient Egypt, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
An Egyptian physician of the Eighteenth Century (1500-1400 B.C.), clothed in clean white linen and a wig, as became the dignity of his status, is confronted with a patient having symptoms of lockjaw (described in an ancient scroll now known as the Edwin Smith papyrus). With sure, sympathetic hands, the physician treats the patient, who is supported by a "brick chair." Directions for treatment appear on the scroll held by his assistant. Specially trained priests observe prescribed magico-religious rites. Egyptian medicine occupied a dominant position in the world of the ancients for 2500 years.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.1
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Morgagni and Pathologic Anatomy, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
In the famous anatomic amphitheatre built in 1590, Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771) demonstrated before medical students from many countries during the 56 years he served as Professor of Anatomy at the famed University of Padua. Although his first book was published in 1704, Morgagni's greatest contribution to medicine, "On the Seats and Causes of Disease," came out 57 years later, in 1761. This five-book work, embodying a lifetime's experience in dissection and in observation, convinced medical men that diseases were not dispersed generally throughout the body, but got their start locally in specific organs or tissues. It ranks high among 18th-century scientific works.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.18
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Charcot: Master of Neurology, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Greatest neurologist of the 19th century, Parisian physician Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) developed La Salpêtrière from an asylum for indigent women to one of France's leading hospitals. Charcot's study and care of its vast patient population led to teaching, research, and the creation of the world's leading neurological clinic; attracted students from many nations; raised neurology to a respected medical science. Some of Charcot's teachings inspired Sigmund Freud of Vienna (Charcot's student, 1885-1886) to develop the world-famous Freudian hypothesis on psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.34
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Title
Yellow Interior
Artist
Blanche Ackers
Artist Life Dates
b. 1916
Century
late 20th century
Object Creation Date
1987-2000
Accession Number
2002/1.197
Medium and Support
marker, black ink, paper collage, crayon, graphite on white wove paper
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Michigan (state)
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Title
Calligraphy, One of a Pair
Artist
Chen Shu-chen
Physical Description
Vertical hanging scroll of calligraphic text consisting of five Chinese characters in black ink. One of a pair.
Artist Life Dates
1908-2000
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
last quarter of 20th century
Accession Number
2006/1.130.1
Medium and Support
hanging scroll, ink on paper
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
This vase has a high neck and gently sloping shoulders; an iridescent glaze glaze of greens and tan overlays a deep brick red on the main body of the vessel.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1929
Accession Number
1972/2.163
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Michigan (state)
Title
Bowl
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Footed bowl-shaped vessel with iridescent dark gray-black glaze
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1918
Accession Number
1972/2.192
Medium and Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze
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Michigan (state)
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Title
Vase
Artist
Pewabic Pottery
Physical Description
Ceramic vessel with rounded shoulder and wide mouth covered with an iridescent glaze over a semi-matte glaze that creates an appearance of irregular patches of color in shades of blue. The rings of the thrown clay can be seen beneath the glaze.
Artist Life Dates
20th c.
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
1920
Accession Number
1972/2.177
Medium and Support
stonware with iridescent glaze
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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Title
Medieval Hospitals, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
The Great Room of the Poor (La Grand' Chambre des Povres) is believed to be the world's oldest edifice to have been in continuous use as a hospital. Representative of medieval hospitals, it is a part of the Hôtel-Dieu of Beaune, France, founded in 1443. Combined with modern professional hospital service it carefully preserves the atmosphere of the fifteenth century. A small chapel is located at the end of the room. Sisters of the Congregation of Sainte Marthe, garbed in habits traditional to their ancient order, have cared for the sick, the aged, and the indigent in this hospital for more than five hundred years, uninterrupted by wars, by economic upheavals, or by political changes.
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.10
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Michigan (state)
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Title
Founding of the American Medical Association, from "The History of Medicine"
Artist
Robert Thom
Physical Description
Advancement of medical knowledge, improved medical education, launcing of a program of medical ethics, and furtherance of public service - these were aims of The American Medical Association, organized May 7, 1847, by 250 delegates seated among exhibit cases and before ancient bones of a mastadon, Mammut americanum, in the hall of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chairman Jonathan Knight welcomed Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, first president (foreground) and officers as they launched what became the world's larger and greater medical bodies, now in its second century of service both to the public and to the profession.
Identity of portraits in the picture "Founding of the American Medial Association" Officers and committeemen present at the time of organiaton of the AMA included (left to right):
1. Dr. A.H. Buchanan, Tennessee, a vice-president
2. Dr. Alexander H. Stevens, New York, a vice-president; second president of the AMA
3. Dr. J.R.W. Dunbar, Maryland, a secretary
4. Dr. Thomas Cock, New York, committeeman
5. Dr. John Watson, New York, chairman of the committee for organizing a permanent national organization
6. Dr. Jonathan Knight, Connecticut, temporary chairman of the organizational meeting; vice president of the new organization; and the AMA's seventh president
7. Dr. Nathan Smith Davis, New York, committeeman credited with having been the "father" of the AMA; sixteenth president of the AMA; and first editor of the AMA "Journal"
8. Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, Pennsylvania, first president of the AMA
9. Dr. J.R. Manley, New York, committeeman
10. Dr. Alfred Stillé, Pennsylvania, a secretary; twenty-third president of the AMA
11. Dr. Isaac Hays, Pennsylvania, treasurer
12. Dr. George B. Wood, Pennsylvania, ninth president of the AMA
13. Dr. James Moultrie, South Carolina, a vice-president; fifth president of the AMA
Artist Life Dates
1915-1979
Century
20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1952
Accession Number
UMHS.27
Medium and Support
oil on canvas
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Creation Place 3
Michigan (state)
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