"large enough to withstand our Utah climate on its own"
By
Peter Strohmeyer
Intro
In front of the library, south-west corner, is an oriental plane tree.
It is not an ordinary plane tree, it is a direct descendant of the original Tree of Hippocrates.
Location
South-West Corner
40.769537, -111.834692
Dedication
May 28, 1975
Hippocrates Tree Dedication Speech
by Priscilla M. Mayden, Director,
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
Excerpt:
There is a traditional story concerning Hippocrates, his life and teaching, which persists to the present day in a tangible form, remarkable because it is a living link between that distant past and the present. This link is the Tree of Hippocrates…
At last we do have our Tree of Hippocrates, large enough to withstand our Utah climate on its own.
We are planting it today at the southwest corner of this building and dedicating it to the teaching of all health science students on this campus in the hippocratic tradition.
We had already taken the leaf of the oriental plane tree as our library’s logo – using it on book plates, literature stationery and even decals on our glass partitions. Since we had no visible tree to go with it, this has always been something of a mystery to our clientele.
-Priscilla M. Mayden
May 28, 1975
Hippocrates Tree Dedication Speech
Leaf of Hippocrates logo circa 1973, Julian Maack, Director of the Department of Medical Illustration, University of Utah School of Medicine
Invitation Tickets for a lecture on the “History of Hematology” by Dr. Maxwell M. Wintrobe. Embossed Tree of Hippocrates Leaf logo. Circa 1975.
Leaf of Hippocrates logo emboss on file folder
Leaf of Hippocrates, colorized by Derek Cowan. Digitized by Peter Strohmeyer in 2019.
Digital Leaf
EHSL Plane tree leaf with geometric diagrams overlayDiagram: The origin of each design element composed in the EHSL Digital Leaf icon.EHSL Digital Leaf, 2018 by Peter Strohmeyer
50th Logo
Forming the leaf logo by merging the two leaf styles
Image Credits
Cover photo, Peter Strohmeyer
Campus Map, University of Utah
Aerial Map, Google
Hippocrates Teaching, Creator: Wellcome Library, London
1959 Postage Stamp, NIH
Frank B. Rogers, source Allen Browne
Hippocrates Plaque, Peter Strohmeyer
2021 Tree of Hippocrates, Peter Strohmeyer
Hippocrates Leaf, George Julian Maack
Hippocrates Leaf, colorized, Derek Cowan
Digital Leaf, Peter Strohmeyer
Video Credits
Dedication Ceremony, NLM archive and hosted on YouTube
In front of the library, south-west corner, is an oriental plane tree.
