File is a photograph Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission public health nurses. Accompanying inscription reads: Public Health Nurses on the lawn Health Centre No. 1, Front Row, left to right, Miss. Godard; Miss. Fenton, Supervisor; Miss Ross, Chief Nurse; Massachusetts-Halifax Health Commission: Misses Graham and Keatinge. Rear Row: Misses Small; Merlin; MacDonald; and Hubley.
File is a reproduction of an engraving depicting a bust of Claudius Galen. Inscription: P.P. Rubens Del: Ex Marmore Antiquo. J. Faber sen[io]r Fecit. GALEN A most excellent Physitian, born at Pirgamos in Asia. He was a great improver or the Hypocratick System of Physick, and the beginner of that Method of Practice [unknown abbreviation] has been used from his time till lately, & from him called Galenick. He is said to have been author of 200 volumes y were burnt in y temple of peace. And is numberd by Garden among y12 most subtil wits of the World. He was of a [illegible] & crazy constitution yet by temperance preserved his life to a great age. He died about the middle ... [illegible due to damage]. Accompanying note: CLAUDIUS GALEN (131-201 A.D.) Galen was the greatest Greek physician after Hippocrates. His original investigations concerned chiefly Anatomy. In the Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, Vol. IV., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881, can be found a series of articles about Galen, written by Dr. George Jackson Fisher.
File is a reproduction of an engraving depicting a medallion with the profile image of Frederick II of Germany. Inscription: Frederick II from a Medallion in the Church della Porto Santo in Andria. Accompanying note: Frederick II., (1194-1250), Emperor of Germany, King of the Two Sicilies, the last one of the Christian Kings of Jerusalem, the Author of a Treatise which contains a Complete Account of the Anatomy of the Falcon.