Art
Illuminating the history of medicine
A lush new chronicle of health-related art tracks centuries of scientific gains
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Wellcome Library, London
Artist unknown, "Organ Man, with Arteries, the Stomach and Internal Organs," from "The Apocalypse," c. 1420–1430.
Ink and watercolor.
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Wellcome Library, London
Artist unknown, Nude Female Anatomical Figure, from "Arzneibuch" (a German health manual), 1524–c. 1550.
Color wash and ink.
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Wellcome Library, London
Artist unknown, Bloodletting Points and Moxa Points on the Human Body (according to the medical philosophy of Tibetan scholar Sangye Gyamsto, 1653-1705).
Gouache with ink inscriptions.
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Wellcome Library, London
Charles Williams (1798–c.1830), "The Country Infirmary," 25 June 1813.
Etching with watercolor.
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Wellcome Library, London
Fortunino Matania (1881–1963), "World War I: An Advanced Dressing Station on the Western Front," 1917.
Watercolor.
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Wellcome Library, London
G. Hazan (fl. 1920s), "The Health Giver (La Messagére de Santé)," c. 1920s.
Colored lithograph.
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Wellcome Library, London
Dorothy Darling Fellnagel, "Syphilis Strikes 1 in 10 Before 50," made for the U.S. Public Health Service, 1940.
Color lithograph.
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Bobby Baker, Wellcome Images, London
Bobby Baker, "Day 711, The Daily Stream of Consciousness," 2008, from a series documenting "[Baker's] care at day treatment centers and psychiatric wards, and her experiences with different drugs and therapies" used to treat mental illness and, later, cancer.
Watercolor and pencil.
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Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy, Wellcome Images, London
Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy, "Aspirin Crystals," 2006.
Color enhanced scanning electron micrograph.
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Anne Weston, LRI, CRUK, Wellcome Images, London
Anne Weston, LRI, CRUK, "Ruptured Blood Vessel," 2006.
Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph.
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Spike Walker, "Quinidine Crystals," 2006.
Polarized light micrograph.
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