Medicine : the art of healing / Sherwin B. Nuland.

[Place of publication not identified] : Beaux Arts Editions, [1992], ©1992.

115 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Includes index.

Oath of Hippocrates: twelfth century -- Chirurgie: 1314 / Henri de Mondeville -- Harvesting the mandrake: ca. 1390 -- De arte phisicali et de Chirurgia: after 1412 / John of Arderne -- Scene in an open-air pharmacy: ca. 1440 / Avicenna -- Illustration of Galen's four humors: ca. 1472 -- Dissection scene, from Fasciulo di Medicina: 1493 / Johannes de Ketham -- Studies of the fetus: ca. 1510 / Leonardo da Vinci -- Syphilis: 1496 / Albrecht Durer -- Limb transplantation miracle by saints Cosmas and Damian: ca. 1500 / A Swabian master -- Short-robed surgeon catheterizes a patient: ca. 1510 / Heinrich Kullmaurer and Albrecht Meher -- Amputation of a leg: 1517 / Johann Wechtlin -- Transfiguration: 1517 / Ralphael -- Henry VIII in 1540 handing to Thomas Vicary the act of union between barbers and surgeons of London: 1541 / Hans Holbein the Younger -- Muscle-man from Vesalius, from de humani corporis fabrica: 1543 / Stephen van Calcar -- Gaspare Tagliocozzi second half of the sixteenth century / attributed to Tiburzio Passarotti -- Practica Copiosa: 1559 / Caspar Stromayr.

(cont) Itinerant toothpullers: early seventeenth century / Theodore Rombouts Roelands -- Village doctor: seventeenth century / David Teniers the Younger -- Plague at Ashdod: 1630 / Nicolas Poussin -- Sebastian de Morra: mid-seventeenth century / Diego Velazquez -- Anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp: 1632 / Rembrandt -- Christ at the pool of Bethesda: 1735-1736 / William Hogarth -- Leg amputation: mid-eighteenth century -- View of the old sick ward of St. John's Hospital, Bruges: 1778 / Johannes Beerblock -- Digitalis purpurea: 1785 / J. Sowersby -- John Hunter: 1786 / Sir Joshua Reynolds -- Man-midwife: 1793 / Isaac Cruikshank -- Gout: 1799 / James Gillray -- George Washington in his last illness, attended by doctors Craik and Brown: ca. 1800 -- Diphtheria: 1802-1812 / Francisco Goya -- Anatomist: early nineteenth century / Thomas Rowlandson -- Showing the results of a cataract operation at the Hotel Dieu, Paris: Nineteenth century / Artist unknown -- William Harvey presenting a deer heart to his king: 1848 / Robert Hannah -- Amputation by Peter Parker: mid-nineteenth century / Lamqua.

(cont) Clinique du docteur Robert-Macaire: ca. 1837 / Honore Daumier -- Rudolf Virchow: late nineteenth century / Sir Leslie Ward (Spy) -- Gross clinic: 1875 / Thomas Eakins -- Theodor Billroth operating: 1890 / Adelbert Seligmann -- First operation under ether: 1881-1894 / Robert C. Hinckley -- Doctor: ca. 1891 / Sir Luke Fildes -- Sick child: 1894 / Edvard Munch -- Four doctors, members of the first clinical faculty of Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland: 1905 / John Singer Sargent -- Radiation treatment: mid-twentieth century / Ivo Saliger -- Anatomists, detail from the history of cardiology: 1943-1944 / Diego Rivera -- Children's doctor: 1949 / Andrew Wyeth -- Second year: introduction to clinical diagnosis, from the art of learning medicine: 1974 / May Lesser -- Norman Bethune operating: ca. 1975.