The Corporation of London requests the honor of the company of... at Guildhall on Friday 5th August, 1881 at 8 o'clock p.m. to meet the members of the International Medical Congress.

Elaborate, colour invitation on cardboard. The border involves national flags and significant figures in the history of medicine from that country in small banners around them (Harvey, Jenner, Abernethy, Hunter, Benjamin, Rush, Valentine, Mott, Albertus Magnus, Hoffman, Haller, Ammann, Hoffmann, Soemmerring, Tiedermann, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Acrel, Boerhaave, Almeloveen, Vesalius, Sentin, Fallopio, Galen, Bouialsky, Theodore) and coats of arms of important national medical societies (Royal College of Physicians, the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, Royal College of Surgeons, Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain). Within that are flourishes of flowers and foliage. Aesculapius is on the left side.