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Leiden (Netherlands)

Images

  • Hermann Boerhaave. Line engraving by J. Houbraken after J. Wandelaar.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), in the background is a manic woman who is waiting for the operation. Photogravure, 1926, after T. de Brij after M. de Vos.
  • Doorway of the old pest house at Leiden, with a sculptured stone relief above, dated 1660. Photograph.
  • Index plantarum, quae in horto academico Lugduno Batavo reperiuntur / Conscriptus ab Hermanno Boerhaave.
  • A statue of Aesculapius holding his staff and a plant stands in a large pharmacy below the coat of arms of Leiden; men working in the pharmacy in the background; representing the pharmacopoeia of Leiden. Engraving by F. van Bleyswyck, 1751.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine (VI), Leiden, 1927: delegates at the opening of the Congress. Photograph, 1927.
  • Doorway of the old pest house at Leiden, with a sculptured stone relief above, dated 1660. Photograph.
  • Leiden, the Netherlands: the University, Anatomy theatre, Botanic garden, Lakenhal, city and two portraits of Counts. Line engraving.
  • International Congress for the History of Medicine (VI), Leiden, 1927: delegates at the opening of the Congress. Photograph, 1927.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Album promotorum van de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1813-1900 / M.J. van Lieburg & F.A. van Lieburg.

    Lieburg, M. J. van. | Date: 1985
    • Books

    Leiden imprints 1483-1600 in Leiden University Library and Bibliotheca Thysiana : a short-title catalogue.

    Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Bibliotheek. | Date: 1974
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Hermann Boerhaave. Line engraving by J. Houbraken after J. Wandelaar.

    Wandelaar, Jan, 1690 or 1692-1759. | Reference: 1200i
    • Books

    Een Universiteit herleeft : wetenschapsbeoefening aan de Leidse Universiteit vanaf de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw / uitgegeven door W. Otterspeer.

    | Date: 1984
    • Books

    Catalogus codicum Orientalium Bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno Batavae.

    Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Bibliotheek. | Date: 1851-1877
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