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The original drama of operating theatres
Medicine as ‘theatre’ began in the 16th century, when paying audiences enjoyed candlelight, live music – and a cadaver being dissected in front of them, all the in name of education.
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Getting under the skin
Before the invention of X-ray in 1895 there was really only one way to accurately study the human body, and that was to cut it open.
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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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What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
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Arms showing funis brachii, Berengarius, 1523
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Thomas Lorkyn's dissections, 1564/5 and 1566/7 / Peter Murray Jones.
Jones, Peter Murray.Date: 1988- Books
Sensata veritas : l'affiorare dell'anatomia patologica, ancora innominata, in scritti di anatomisti del '500 / Giorgio Weber ; in appendice il Liber introductorius anatomiae(1536) di Nicolò Massa.
Weber, Giorgio.Date: 2006- Pictures
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A fugitive sheet of a seated female figure, her hand resting on a vase, with her thorax and abdomen dissected to reveal the ribs, vertebral column and pelvis. Photograph after a woodcut, 1611.
Sabio, Giovanni Antonio de Nicolini de, active 16th century.Date: 1900-1999Reference: 26738i- Books
Theatrical dissections and dancing cadavers : Andreas Vesalius and sixteenth century popular culture / by Cynthia Klestinec.
Klestinec, Cynthia.Date: 2001