The Stuyvesant Polyclinic
Sunday, April 3rd, 2005
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Ottendorfer Library and The Stuyvesant Polyclinic. Second Avenue between St Marks Place and East 9th Street. These adjoining building were both designed by architect William Schickel and used molded terra cotta for exterior decoration. They date from 1884 when this was a German neighborhood.
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| From the plaque, now hidden behind a gate: “Stuyvesant Polyclinic formerly the German Dispensary. In 1884 William Schickel designed this building as a health clinic for the city’s German immigrants. It is an ornate version of Italian Renaissance design. The facade is enhanced by sculpted portrait busts of famous physicians and scientists, includingh English physiologist, William Harvey; Swedish Botanist, Carolus Linnaeus; French chemist, Antoine Lavoisier; and German naturalist, Friedrick Von Humboldt. – New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation 1989″ |
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| Anders Celsius 1701-1744 – For his metereological observations he constructed his world famous Celsius thermometer, with 0 for the boiling point of water and 100 for the freezing point. After his death in 1744 the scale was reversed to its present form.. |
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| Hippocrates (c. 460 BC–380 BC) – A famous, time-honoured medical rule ascribed to Hippocrates is Primum non nocere (“first, do no harm”); another one is Ars longa, vita brevis (“art is long, and life short”). |
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| Aesculapius – In Greek mythology, Aesculapius, son of Apollo, (often referred to as the god of medicine or healing) was a Greek healer who became a Greek demigod, and was a famous physician.His mother, the nymph Coronis, a princess of Thessaly, died when he was an among the Greek gods and heroes who were associated with health and curing disease. |
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined.
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (August 12, 1762 – August 25, 1836), was a German physician. He is famous as the most eminent practical physician of his time in Germany
Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné ) – Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology.
americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
William Harvey – (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was an English physician who was the first in the Western world to describe correctly and in exact detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart.
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794; French pronunciation: [???twan l????? d? la.vwa?zje]), the father of modern chemistry,[1] was a French noble prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology. He stated the first version of the law of conservation of mass,[2] recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783), abolished the phlogiston theory, helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature. He discovered that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same.
Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (AD 129 – 200/217), better known as Galen of Pergamum, was a prominent Roman physician and philosopher of Greek origin,[1] and probably the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period. (I’m not sure of this attribution, the clothes on the bust look too modern)
