Lewis Albert Sayre with Patient

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Lewis Albert Sayre, MD (1820-1900), observes the change in the curvature of the spine as a patient self-suspends herself prior to being wrapped in Sayre's plaster of Paris bandage treatment. Dr. Sayre served as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Bellevue Hospital Medical College from 1861 to 1897 and as Emeritus Professor from 1897 to 1898.

Bellevue Hospital - House Staff, 3rd Medicial Division

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Group portrait of Bellevue Hospital’s House Staff, Third Medical Division, circa 1927. Caption reads: “Back Row: Victor Carabba, ? Charles [Messelhoff], Frances Barnhart, Norman Jolliffe, Katherine Shaw, ?, Andre Brunner, Robert P. Wallace. Front Row: Joseph E. Connery, Edward Reilly, Bernhard L. Robbins, Robert J. Carlisle, George B. Wallace, Warren Coleman, Mills Sturtevant, Louis L. Shapiro.”