The Back Bay golden goose ostrich
By: [1914]
Published: 1914
Language: eng
Subjects: Medical ethics; Medical Ethics; Medicine; Caricatures and cartoons; Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School; Harvard University
Notes: Cartoon, drawn by Philip Leslie Hale; prepared for E. A. Codman to show at a meeting of the Surgical Section of the Suffolk District Medical Society, held at the Boston Medical Library, January 6, 1915. Depicts the Back Bay populace as an ostrich with its head in the sand, laying golden eggs which are being kicked to Back Bay surgeons, while the President of Harvard, the Dean of Harvard Medical School, and the Trustees of Massachusetts General Hospital look on.

Gift ; Codman, E. A., to the Boston Medical Library ; 1920 Mar. 20.