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Recognizing Dr. William Lane Watkins: Archives

Medical Equipment

Doctor's bag/medical kit, Becton Dickenson & Co., Rutherford NJ, early 20th century.

Doctor's bag/medical kit, unknown manufacturer, late 19th century.

Previously owned by George N. Gage, BUSM class of 1877.

Photos by Victor Gvirtsman from items in the Boston University Alumni Medical Library Archives.

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Books

Bookplate from A Dictionary of Practical Medicine, published in 1859 and donated to the medical school library in 1874. 

Some then-unusual color plates from Practical Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology; Hygiene and Therapeutics, by T.S. Lambert, MD, published in 1850 and an early addition to the medical library collection.