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Janus was the Roman god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings. He was represented with a double-faced head, each looking in opposite directions. At the end of the old year we look forward to the new, and offer these varied historic images which appear opposite the opening title pages of the works listed below. These and more may be viewed in the University Archives.
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Scenes in the Practice of a New York Surgeon, Edward H. Dixon, M.D., 1855.
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Liber Theoricae nec Non Practicae Alsaharavii in Prisco Arabum Medicorum…, Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn Abbas al-Zahrawi, 1519.
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De Verulamio Historia Naturalis & Experimentalis de Ventis &c, Francis Bacon, 1648. [“Bacon on Wind”]
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