Renaissance anatomical illustration Paper.
Renaissance anatomical illustrations often followed artistic conventions (situating the skeleton in a lifelike pose in a landscape) and played wittily on the tensions between life and death. The contemplation of the skull prefigures Hamlet’s later meditation. Line drawing, Valverde de Hamusco, Historia de la composicion del cuerco humano (Rome: A. Salamanca & A. Lafreri, 1556). Renaissance anatomical illustration Paper.
TO Mikuláš Teich,
true friend and scholar
Sick – Sick – Sick. . . O Sick – Sick – Spew DAVID GARRICK, in a letter
ORDER A CUSTOM-WRITTEN, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPER HERE
I’m sick of gruel, and the dietetics, I’m sick of pills, and sicker of emetics, I’m sick of pulses, tardiness or quickness, I’m sick of blood, its thinness or its thickness, – In short, within a word, I’m sick of sickness! Renaissance anatomical illustration Paper.
THOMAS HOOD, ‘Fragment’, c. 1844
They are shallow animals, having always employed their minds about Body and Gut, they imagine that in the whole system of things there is nothing but Gut and Body.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, on doctors (1796)
CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I Introduction
II The Roots of Medicine
III Antiquity
IV Medicine and Faith
V The Medieval West
VI Indian Medicine
VII Chinese Medicine
VIII Renaissance
IX The New Science
X Enlightenment
XI Scientific Medicine in the Nineteenth Century
XII Nineteenth-Century Medical Care
XIII Public Medicine
XIV From Pasteur to Penicillin
XV Tropical Medicine, World Diseases
XVI Psychiatry
XVII Medical Research
XVIII Clinical Science
XIX Surgery
XX Medicine, State and Society
XXI Medicine and the People
XXII The Past, the Present and the Future
FURTHER READING
INDEX
More praise for: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
FIGURES
The main organs of the body The four humours and the four elements The heart and circulation, as understood by Harvey Neurones and synapses, as understood by neurologists c. 1900. Renaissance anatomical illustration Paper.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Imhotep. Portrait of Hippocrates. Portrait of Galen by Georg Paul Busch. Portrait of Hildegard of Bingen by W. Marshall. Portrait of Moses Maimonides by M. Gur-Aryeh. The Wound Man, from Feldtbuch der Wundartzney by H. von Gersdorf. The common willow, from The Herball, or General Historie of Plantes by J. Gerard. St Cosmas and St Damian performing the miracle of the black leg by Alonso de Sedano. A medieval Persian anatomical drawing. A medieval European anatomy, from Margarita Philosophica by Gregorius Reisch. A Chinese acupuncture chart. ‘Two Surgeons Amputating the Leg and Arm of the Same Patient’ by ZS. The frontispiece to Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica. A medicine man or shaman. An Indian doctor taking the pulse of a patient. Portrait of Vesalius. Portrait of William Harvey by J. Hall. Portrait of Louise Bourgeois. Portrait of William Hunter by J. Thomas. Portrait of Benjamin Rush by R. W. Dodson. An early seventeenth-century dissection.
Scenes from the plague in Rome of 1656. A mother and baby, from Anatomia uteri humani gravidi by William Hunter. Three stages of dissection.
ORDER A CUSTOM-WRITTEN, PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPER HERE
Opthamology instruments, eye growths, a cateract operation and other eye defects by R. Parr. The preserved skull of a woman who had been suffering from syphilis. Punch Cures the Gout, the Colic, and the Tisick by James Gillray. Breathing a vein by J. Sneyd. An Apothecary with a Pestle and Mortar to Make up a Prescription by A. Park. The interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory with people at work. Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. Portrait of René Théophile Hyacyinthe Laennec Portrait of Louis Pasteur by E. Pirou. Portrait of William Gorgas. Portrait of Joseph Lister. Christiaan Barnard, photographed by B. Govender. Renaissance anatomical illustration Paper.Mentally ill patients in the garden of an asylum by K. H. Merz. Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones, Sandor Ferenczi, Abraham Bill and G. Stanley Hall. A male smallpox patient in sickness and in health. A Fijian man with elephantiasis of the left leg and scrotum. An Allegory of Malaria by Maurice Dudevant. A white doctor vaccinating African girls all wearing European clothes at a mission station by Meisenbach. Portrait of Florence Nightingale. A Nurse Checking on a Playful Child by J. E. Sutcliffe. ‘A district health centre where crowds of local children are being vaccinated’ by E. Buckman. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Hôtel Dieu. Renaissance anatomical illustration Paper.