William H. Welch, undated

This engraving is of William H. Welch "Dean of American Medicine", illustrated by Max Brodel (1870-1941) a young German artist who came to Baltimore and worked for Howard A. Kelly, Chief of Gynecology, as his illustrator for a two-volume textbook, Operative Gynecology. Then he trained students at Johns Hopkins to become medical illustrators. William H. Welch is known as one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he was the first dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and founder of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first public health school in the country.