The Center for a Healthy Maryland and the History of Maryland Medicine Committee are pleased to announce that Richard Colgan, M.D. will be the speaker at the Sixth Annual Hunt Lecture to take place on Thursday, June 25, 2015 at MedChi’s Osler Hall.
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As I was searching the archives in preparation for a Graphic Design & Branding class I am hosting at MedChi this evening, I came across an envelope with one small piece of paper contained within.
It is a prescription from John Ruhräh, M.D. to Marcia Noyes on Christmas Day, 1934 for joy, happiness, health and prosperity to be taken throughout the year. It is a sweet commentary on the friendship between these two people who both loved books.
As I worked on cleaning up the bookplates, I couldn’t help but notice how many times I saw an owl depicted on the plates. The owl is sacred to the Greek goddess of learning, Athena and is even depicted on some Greco-Roman currency as a symbol of status, intelligence and of course, wealth. But there is also their association with wisdom, which might be why owls are on a lot of the plates.
Here are some of the owls I have found.
Right at the top.
It’s a little hard to see, but the owl is perched on the books.
The memorial bookplate for Sir William Osler, MD.
Ruhräh by Brödel. Two owls.
Just perched there on the shelf.
Owls are not the only birds depicted in the bookplates, there are also others, including several chickens!
