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Page from Jonathan Knight's daybook showing an entry [the last entry on this page] for a "black woman" patient, whom Knight saw at the home of "Mrs. M. Lyons." It appears that Mrs. Lyons paid 25 cents for Knight's visit.
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Benjamin Silliman, Sr's house, 28 Hillhouse Avenue.
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Portrait of Benjamin Silliman by Daniel Huntington (ca. 1850s).
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Cortlandt Van Rensselaer Creed memorial marker, describing Creed as "Physician. Son of John and Vashti Duplex Creed. Graduate of the New Haven Lancasterian School. First African American Graduate of Yale. First African American to earn an MD from an Ivy League Medical School. 1st Lieutenant and Surgeon of the 31st Regiment U. S. Colored Troops 1864. One of nine African American physicians to serve in the Union Army. Physician at the Knight U.S. Army General Hospital, New Haven. Member of the Connecticut Medical Society and the Colored Freedmen's Aid Society. Expert consultant on President James A. Garfield's assassination." In the background is the grave marker of Jown W. Creed, Cortlandt's father.
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Receipt of payment to John W. Creed from Calliopean Society, January 22, 1849, "for the sum of $15.00 for services to the Calliopean Society for 3 months"
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Annual Circular for 1840-1841, noting donations to the Medical Institution of Yale College that include the materials from Edinburgh phrenologist George Combe’s lecture tour of the United States
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Cover of Annual Circular for 1840-1841, showing the medical school building as it would have appeared in 1835, when a Yale medical students noted that “the back part of the [medical] college is occupied by a colored family”
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Portrait of Jonathan Knight (1789-1864, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, M.D. (Hon.) 1818), founding Yale Professor of Anatomy and Physiology and later Professor of Surgery
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Excerpt from Henry Williams Foster's 1861 medical school thesis, “Dissertation on Intermittent Fever of West Africa,” describing predisposing causes to intermittent fever: “as Predisposing causes maybe mentioned. Sedentary habits, intemperance, a change of residence, constipation, and in females that condition of the system that attends upon the menstrual flow.”
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Title page of Cortlandsr Van Rensselaer Creed's 1857 medical school thesis, "Dissertation on the Blood"
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Yale medical student Jacob Keeler mentions in a letter to a recent graduate that “the back part of the [medical] college is occupied by a colored family, who has the care of the college, cleans it and tends to warming of the different apartments”
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Satirical depiction of George Combe delivering a phrenological lecture to an Edinburgh audience in a room filled with skulls, books, and plaster casts of heads
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Eli Ives (February 7, 1779-October 8,1861)
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1826 portrait of Nathan Smith, a founding professor of Yale School of Medicine, by Samuel Finley Breese Morse
