Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Medical Events in North America

Barcode: 58505

Image Number: 58505.0001

Creator: Corcos, Lucille

Publishing Location: Chicago

Brief Description: Pictorial map celebrating medical milestones in North America as a promotion for pharmaceutical firm Abbott Laboratories. Illustrated by prolific artist Lucille Corcos, it features famous doctors such as Dr. Walter Reed , Dr. Carlos Finlay and associates who studied mosquitos related to yellow fever. Included is the first use of ether in 1842 by Dr. Crawford Long and Benjamin Franklin who promoted the Pennsylvania Hospital. Although the map is dominated by male figures, Doctor Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman to receive a degree in medicine and Marie Zakrzewska who established the first training school for nurses in America are also featured.  Also included is a quote from French physiologist Claude Bernard: "The names of the prime movers of science disappear gradually in a general fusion, and the more a science advances, the more impersonal and detached it becomes."

Date/Date Range Produced: 1950

Date/Date Range Published: 1950

Language: English

Region Depicted: United States

Map Type: Historical mapsPictorial maps

Dimensions: 53cm x 77 cm

Historical Context: Map shows the progress of medicine and accomplishments in the field by numerous scientists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Abbott Laboratories which used this as a promotion for its pharmaceuticals was founded in 1888 by Dr. Wallace C. Abbott of Chicago. During World War II it led an effort to ramp up production of penicillin. It continues to focus on a variety of general pharmaceuticals.

LC Call Number: G3301.E55 1950 C6

OCLC: 1393654741

Subjects: medicineScience

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/58505.0001