A young lady named Lucy B. Hyde, ate a lot of green apples, and died: "the apples fermented," the doctor commented, "and made cider inside her inside."

Collection:: Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Contributor(s):: Zwerdling, Michael, former owner
Exhibit Supply Company, publisher.
Publication:: Chgo. : Ex. Sup. Co., [1941]
Language(s):: English
Format:: Still image
Subject(s):: Nurses
Surgeons
Operating Room Nursing
Genre(s):: Postcards
Humor
Abstract:: Postcard features a color drawing of a young lady lying on an operating table, looking at her doctor in astonishment. The doctor is looking at her reciting a limerick while a nurse in a surgical mask is standing next to him holding a tray with instruments.
Copyright:: This item may be under copyright protection; contact the copyright owner for permission before re-use.
Extent:: 1 postcard : 14 x 9 cm
Provenance:: Purchase; Michael Zwerdling; 2004; 04-22.
Technique:: color
NLM Unique ID:: 101703299 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101703299

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