Medical Society of New York Parchment Diploma

DeRuyter, New York: Medical Society of New York, 1829. Good to very good. Wrinkled with some dust soiling, toning, wear/damage to wax seal.. Original parchment diploma certifying "proficiency in the healing art" for Jonas C. Maine of DeRuyter, Madison County, New York. It is dated May 1829, and is signed by the President and Secretary of the Medical Society of New York. Includes a handsome engraved allegorical image of a Hermes in flight, having shot an arrow and pierced a serpent on the forest floor. Engraved parchment leaf measuring approx. 12.25" by 9.75", with blue silk ribbon woven into the left-hand margin and secured with red wax seal. Dr. Jonas Chapman Maine (c.1806) was a renaissance man who worked as a doctor, farmer, and musician, as well as Yale law student and town surveyor in Bolton, Connecticut. He graduated medical school from the Castleton Vermont medical college.