Libraries, Medicine and Worcester – and historical medical images

Long before U Mass Medical School came to Worcester, there was another connection between libraries and medicine here in town. It was John Green MD (the same Green family as in Green Hill Park) that in 1859 founded the Worcester Public Library with a bequest of books and funding. And his picture is available online through the National Library of Medicine’s Images from the History of Medicine database. Do you need historic medical images to use in a presentation? This collection is the most comprehensive of its kind found online. Not only are there images of people in medicine, you will also find photos of instruments, procedures, buildings, etc. Not all of the images are copyright free but many can be freely used simply by citing the National Library of Medicine in your slide.