Previous Exhibits at Lane Library
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What Degas and Monet Saw
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2009
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An original exhibit showcasing the scholarship of Dr. Michael Maror, professor and former chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford. Dr. Marmor explores the question of whether the changing eyesight of the great Impressionist painters Claude Monet and Edgar Degas may have influenced their artistic styles. The exhibit included historical ophthalmological instruments from the Lane Medical Archives.
An original exhibition about Surviving! magazine, a publication by and for cancer
patients that ran 1983-2003. The magazine was pioneered by Stanford clinical social worker Pat Fobair, supported by
Department of Radiation Oncolgy at Stanford. It offered an innovative way for cancer patients to connect by sharing their
stories with one another.
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"Not a Cough in a Carload" Images from the Tobacco Industry's Campaign to Hide the Hazards of
Smoking
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2007
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Backed by pseudo-scientific reports, smoking ads from the 1920s through the 1950s were orchestrated to reassure the
public that smoking was safe. Lane Library is hosting an exhibition of these provocative images through May. The
exhibit is the product of the interdisciplinary collaboration of Robert Jackler, Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery and Professor of Neurosurgery and Surgery, Laurie Jackler, Artist, and Robert Proctor, Professor
of History.
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Bugs and Drugs: a History of Tuberculosis
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2006
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Tuberculosis is an ancient disease; signs of tubercular decay have been found in Egyptian mummies dating from 2400
BCE. The Greeks were the first to describe tuberculosis in detail; they named it phthisis, meaning "I waste
away." This exhibit (organized by Virginia Adi and currently on display at Lane) showcases key medical texts from
Lane's rich historical collections, and includes descriptions of and remedies for tuberculosis from some of the
earliest Greek, Latin, and Arabic medical authors, as well as from more modern authors.
These 19th and 20th century canes are from Lane's medical instruments collection. Once considered an essential part
every physician's equipment, canes eventually became fashion statements. They usually had gold, silver, or ivory knobs,
and were hollow to store aromatic preparations used to prevent contagion. William Macmichael's 1825 text The
Gold-headed Cane (of which Lane owns three editions) made cane-carrying physicians famous.
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Lane Celebrates 100 Years
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2006
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Lane Medical Library's first 100 years have seen many changes: from an old stone building in San Francisco to the
new integrated knowledge center that is slated to break ground in 2007; from a collection of 35,000 books
hand-cataloged in cursive in a thin ledger book to a collection of hundreds of thousands of both print and digital
materials managed through an online catalog. This exhibit showcases books and artifacts from Lane's first century, and
includes such materials as Levi Cooper Lane's original desk, old photographs, and the original hand-written
catalog.
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Healing HeARTS
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Winter 2006
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Healing HeARTS is a children's advocacy project established by a coalition of
staff at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and students at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The mission of
the project is to encourage and support the creative expressions of children undergoing treatment and hospitalization
for a variety of illnesses. Lane hosted an exhibition of Healing HeARTS artwork from December 2006 through February
2006.
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Anatomy of Anatomy
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Spring 2005
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Meryl Levin is a freelance photographer focused on issues of health and social welfare. She is adjunct Faculty
Member at the School of Visual Arts, NYC and the author of Anatomy of Anatomy and Beyond the Emergency
Room: The Search of Health Care in the South Bronx.
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Encounter Merce: Body and Time
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Spring 2005
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Stanford's inaugural interdisciplinary exploration through the arts, focuses on the life and art of Merce
Cunningham, legendary choreographer, dance innovator, and artistic thinker. The Body and Time portion of this multi-location exhibition
featured selections from Cunningham's daily journal chronicling his thoughts via words and drawings focusing on aging
through the prism of one whose live has been devoted to movement and the power of the human body.
From the Fruit and Flower Mission to the McGann Lectures:
An Historical Record of Social Work at Stanford University
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Spring 2005
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This exhibit was inspired by the publication by Leona M. McGann and Flora M. Finney, emeritae members of the
Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine, of their History of Social Work in the Leland Stanford Jr.
University School of Medicine, 1913-1981. Lane Library combined photographs and documents from Lane's Special
Collections and Archives with original correspondence and memorabilia provided by McGann and Finney to tell the story
of the history of social work at Stanford.
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Great Men of Medicine Medals
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Summer 2004
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An extensive collection of silver and bronze medals depicting and honoring great figures in medicine is currently on
display in Lane Library. The medals were created by Abram Belskie, a London native and a former medical sculptor for
the New York Medical College.
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Stanford Nurse Alumnae
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Spring 2004
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Photos and regalia dating back to the early years of Stanford nursing education were exhibited in honor of National
Nurses week, May 6-12, 2004. Inaugurated by Mrs. Lane in 1895, the Lane Hospital Training School for Nurses graduated
217 nurses by 1912. Eventually changing its name to the Stanford University School of Nursing, the school trained
nurses for 79 years both in San Francisco and, after 1959, in Palo Alto. The school closed in April 1974 but still has
a very active alumnae who gather annually for the Stanford
Nurse Alumnae Spring Luncheon.
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Replicas of pre-Columbian Sculptures
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Winter 2004
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Miniature sculptures of a variety of medical conditions, including anxiety and depression from the Island of Jaina,
Mexico, a male figure with skin lesions from Colima, Mexico, and a Peruvian Mochica Medicine man.
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1957 Groundbreaking
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Spring 2003
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In 1959 Stanford's School of Medicine moved from San Francisco to Palo Alto to become part of a new Stanford
University Medical Center. Part of a strategic plan that included a revised curriculum for the medical school and
addressed the need to be an organic part of the parent university, ground breaking began in 1957. The Architect for
Stanford's 440-bed Palo Alto-Stanford Medical Center was Edward Durell Stone, noted for his design of the American
Embassy at New Delhi and the United States Pavilion at the Brussels World Fair. Historical photographs of this
important School of Medicine building project were exhibited.
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Interplast Photographs
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Spring 2002
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Dr. David Zlotnick's photographs chronicle the many lives he touched during his 20 years of service to children in
developing countries who suffer physically or emotionally from congenital deformity or injury. A devoted pediatrician
and longtime friend and volunteer at Lane Library, Dr. Zlotnick and his wife, Caroline, a nurse, played a key role in
building and developing Interplast's programs.
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2300 Years of Medical Costumes
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Summer 2001
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Delightful reprints of watercolor pictures depicting distinctive garb of the medical and related professions from
the time of Hippocrates to the Napoleonic era. These prints were created by the Swiss illustrator, Warja
Honegger-Lavater from the authentic replicas in the University of Rome's Institute of Medical History. They are
currently on display in the large conference room on the main floor of Lane Library.
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The Physician and the Slave Trade
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Spring 1999
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Daniel Liebowitz, M.D. published a biography of John Kirk, M.D. Kirk's early African expeditions with Livingstone
inspired his personal crusade against slavery in East Africa. His efforts ultimately persuaded Sultan Bargash to sign
and enforce an historical anti-slavery treaty. Memorabilia from the making of this biography were displayed in Lane
Library.
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Bloodletting Through the Ages
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Summer 1999
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The exhibit will briefly touched upon the practice from its use by ancient Greek physicians to the current use of
leeches in the Stanford Hospital. The exhibit featured medical instruments used for the procedure such as scarificators
and a spring lancet.
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Domestic Violence
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Fall 1998
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Lane Medical Library displayed resources about domestic violence for health care providers and their
patients.
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Microscopes
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Summer 1997-Winter 1998
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The eighteenth century witnessed a great shift in the study of the Natural Sciences, usually divided into three
broad areas of inquiry: the animal, the vegetal, and the mineral. The invention of the compound microscope (around 1600
in Holland) and its optical improvement during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries furthered study of animal
physiology and botany. Lane exhibited compound microscopes from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.
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Lane Medical Lectures Centennial
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Spring 1996
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The Lane Medical Lectures were an endowed lacture series founded by Dr. Levi Cooper Lane to foster an atmosphere for
the exchange of ideas among medical scholars and researchers of the West and the great minds of the East and Europe.
The first of these lectures was given by Sir William Macewen in September 1896.
T. M. Keller. "Sir
William Macewen's visit to California as the First Lane Medical Lecturer. A centennial celebration." West J Med.
1996 November; 165(5): 279-282.
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Translating the Arabic Treasures of Lane
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Fall 1995
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Lane's Arabic collection in Special Collections was cataloged in part thanks to Medical Scholars' Program researcher
and medical student, Elias Aboujaoudé. The 289 Arabic script books and manuscripts have been in Lane's collection since
1922 when Dr. Adolph Barkan completed the purchase of the personal library of Dr. Ernst Seidel for Stanford University.
Selected items represented calligraphy at the intersection of Islam and traditional healing.
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Ophthalmology
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Spring 1995
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Lane Library has been collecting medical instruments since it opened in 1906. The collection exists because of
generous donations by physicians, alumni, and their families. Some of the instruments date back to the 1700s. These
instruments represent the specialties in medicine and their respective advances in technology in the history of
medicine. This exhibit featured ophthalmology instruments including ophthalmoscopes, surgical cases, and eye glasses
from the 19th century.
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Bengt Ingemar Samuelson
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Winter 1981
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A leading researcher in prostglandin biocehmistry and dean of the Karolinska Institutet, Samuelson delivered a
series of three lectures for the 37th Lane Meidcal Lecture.
Paul Berg won the 1980 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to
recombinant-DNA.
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Women in Medicine
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Fall 1980
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Autobiographies and biographies from Lane's collections
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Ophthalmology
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Spring 1995
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Lane Library has been collecting medical instruments since it opened in 1906. The collection exists because of
generous donations by physicians, alumni, and their families. Some of the instruments date back to the 1700s. These
instruments represent the specialties in medicine and their respective advances in technology in the history of
medicine. This exhibit featured ophthalmology instruments including ophthalmoscopes, surgical cases, and eye glasses
from the 19th century.
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Sir William Osler
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Spring 1980
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Nursing Today and Tomorrow
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Winter 1980
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Stanford University School of Medicine, 1959 and Now
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Fall 1979
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Henry Seymour Kaplan
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Summer 1979
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Paul G. Unna, Father of Dermatology
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Spring-Fall 1979
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Walter Dandy, Wilder Penfield, and Harvey Cushing: Fathers of Modern Neurosurgery
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Spring 1979
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10 Greatest Advances in Medicine
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1979
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William Harvey
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Summer 1978
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In recognition of the 400th anniversary of Harvey's birth, Lane Library celebrated the discoverer of the circulation
of the blood with a display placing special attention on the types of pumps used in his time.
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Hendrick van Deventer: Father of Modern Midewifery
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1978
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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis: Pioneer in surgical antisepsis
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Summer-Fall 1978
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Claude Bernard: Founder of Modern Experimental Biology
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Winter 1978
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H. Christian Zweng: Pioneer in retinal laser treatment
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Fall 1977
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Ephraim McDowell
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Spring 1977
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Ephraim McDowell is considered the father of ovariotomy. The first patient , Jane Todd Crawford, underwent the
surgery to remove a 20 pound tumor with no anesthesia or antisepsis. She survived another 30 years.
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The 1976 Nobel Prize Winners
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Fall 1976-Spring 1977
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Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries
concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.
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Hideyo Noguchi
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Spring 1977
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Hideyo Noguchi was a bacteriologist wh ofirst isolated the causative agent of syphillis.
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Benjamin Rush: Physician, Signer of the Declaration of Indepence
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Fall 1976
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William Withering and the Bicentennial of Digitalis
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Spring 1976
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William Withering was a British physician and botanist who first prescribed digitalis for the treatment of edema
(dropsy) caused by heart disease.
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Grace Thille
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Fall 1975-Winter 1976
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In the fall 1975, Grace Thille, the only surviving member of the Cooper Medical College class of 1899, turned 100
and attended her reunion at Stanford.
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Women in Medicine
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Fal 1974
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An exhibit with particular focus on the medical education of women
