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Printing the body
The 18th century saw multiple technical developments in both printing and medicine. Colourful collaborations ensued – to the benefit of growing ranks of medical students.
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The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
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Interpreting the Ayurvedic Man
A British Sign Language video is the latest interpretation of an unique 18th-century Nepali painting about Ayurvedic medicine.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
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A survey of the microcosme, or the anatomy of the bodies of man and woman : wherein the skin, veins, nerves, muscles, bones, sinews, and ligaments thereof are accurately delineated, and so disposed by pasting, as that each part of the said bodies, both inward and outward, are exactly represented. Useful for all doctors, chyrurgeons, statuaries, painters, &c. / By Michael Spaher of Tyrol, and Remilinus. Englished by John Ireton, Chyrurgeon.
Remmelin, Johann, 1583-1632.Date: MDC XCI. [1691]- Books
Male trouble : a crisis in representation / Abigail Solomon-Godeau.
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail.Date: [1997], ©1997- Books
Anxious anatomy : the conception of the human form in literary and naturalist discourse / Stefani Engelstein.
Engelstein, Stefani, 1970-Date: [2008], ©2008