A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1987
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![6. Portrait of a deceased man. Daguerreotype by an anonymous photogra- pher, c. 1850. Serving as a visual memento, photographs of the dead helped the Victorians to come to terms with mortality. Such photographs should be considered in the larger context of practices such as elaborate funerals, prescribed periods for mourning dress, and black-edged mourning notepaper. Particularly in the early decades of photography, the 1840s and 1850s, such photographs would have represented the only visual record of a paterfamilias who had never sat for his portrait in any other medium. 7. Florence Nightingale, Charles Holte Bracebridge and Selina Brace- bridge in the Crimea. Oil painting on canvas by Jerry Barrett, 1859. When Florence Nightingale embarked for the Crimea on 21 October 1854, she was accompanied by her long-standing friends and travelling-companions, Charles Holte Bracebridge and his wife Selina, who served as her confidants and advo- cates in her many struggles and who nursed her during her illness in 1855. After returning to England, Charles Bracebridge acted as Miss Nightingale's unautho- rised spokesman. She expressed her displeasure and their friendship subsequently cooled, but on his death in 1872 she was moved to pay tribute to his noble char- acter, and on Mrs Bracebridge's death in 1874 to record that 'she was more than a mother to me'. The Brighton painter Jerry Barrett [1824-1906], who painted this picture, trav- elled to the Crimea to depict Florence Nightingale, who is shown here with her companions in a Turkish setting. The scene represented probably dates from 1855. In 1859, the date of the paint- ing, therefore, Barrett would have been working from drawings executed four years before. 8. Portrait of Sir Ivan Magill, KCVO,FRCS [1888-1986] on his 95th birthday, 1983. Colour photograph by an unknown photographer. Sir Ivan Magill qualified in medicine at Queen's University, Belfast in 1913. In the course of his long career in anaesthetics he made many innovations including a two-catheter approach which prevented blood from bubbling in the patient's mouth and the anaesthetic from affecting the surgeon; a small portable anaes- thetic machine; the 'Magill attachment'; endobronchial blockers; and selective visual bronchial intubation for lung surgery. At the forefront of his profession, Sir Ivan helped to form the Association of Anaesthetists (1932). In 1945 he was awarded an honorary DSc degree from Queen's University, Belfast, which, many years before, had turned down his MD thesis on endotracheal anaesthesia on the ground that it was unlikely to be of much value.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20456852_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
