Anyone in the mood for a Facial Hair Friday? Archives and Rare Books staff members always like seein
Anyone in the mood for a Facial Hair Friday? Archives and Rare Books staff members always like seeing pictures of the truly fantastic facial hair that pop up in the archival collections. The top image shows a delicious assortment of facial hair among the first medical staff of St. Louis Children’s Hospital. This 1879 photo shows the hospital’s first group of volunteer homeopathic physicians, many of whom staffed the hospital from its founding in 1879 to 1910.In the middle is Dr. Herman Tuholske, featured here as a caricature in the 1903 “St. Louisans as we see ’em,” served as a professor of surgery at Washington University from 1899 to 1909. Concurrently, Dr. Tuholske also served as the president of the medical staff and surgeon in chief at Jewish Hospital from 1902-1920. And then comes Dr. Charles Curtman. Dr. Curtman was a professor of chemistry at Missouri Medical College, predecessor to Washington University School of Medicine, from 1868-1896. This photo shows Dr. Curtman sporting a glorious goatee in his laboratory in 1890. -- source link
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