c. 900 APOLLONIOS OF KITION (OR APOLLONIUS OF CITIUM; ἈΠΟΛΛΏΝΙΟΣ Ὁ ΚΙΤΙΕΎΣ) (-50 – )
The Nicetas codex.
The earliest surviving illustrated surgical codex was written and illuminated in Constantinople for the Byzantine physician Niketas (Nicetas) about 900 CE. It contains 30 full-page images illustrating the commentary o…
GMN 6817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8980
1465 SABUNCUOGLU (OTTOMAN TURKISH: شرف الدّین صابونجی اوغلی), Şerafeddin (1385 – 1468)
Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery)
In 1465, at the age of 80, Ottoman surgeon and physician Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu published in manuscript an illustrated atlas of surgery and dentistry. This was also the first medical textbook written in Turkish, proba…
GMN 6819 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8982
1540 RÖSSLIN, Eucharius [RHODION; ROESSLIN] (1470 – 1526)
The byrth of mankynde.
The first English treatise on midwifery, translated by Richard Jonas from the 1532 Latin translation by Roesslin the Younger (De partu hominis) of Roesslin's work (1513). The 1540 English edition was illustrated with …
GMN 6139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7681
1598 PÉREZ DE HERRERA, Christóbal (1588 – 1620)
Discursos del amparo de los legitimos pobres y reduccion de los fingidos, y de la fundacion y principio de los albergues destos Reynos, y amparo de la milicia dellos.
In this rather utopian work with emblematic illustrations Pérez presented a plan for a state funded public health system and poor relief program. His ten essays concerned hospital sanitation, kitchen gardens, care of …
GMN 12829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15075
1751 STUBBS, George (1724 – 1806); BURTON, John (1697 – 1771)
An essay towards a complete new system of midwifery, theoretical and practical.
Burton was the first to suggest that puerperal fever is contagious, and the first to give a detailed discussion of Caesarean section. Laurence Steme satirized him as “Dr. Slop” in The life and opinions of Tristram Sha…
GMN 6268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7976
1752 SMELLIE, William (1697 – 1763)
A treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery.
Smellie contributed more to the fundamentals of obstetrics than virtually any individual. In his Treatise he described more accurately than any previous writer the mechanism of parturition, stressing the importance of…
GMN 6154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7719
1754 SMELLIE, William (1697 – 1763)
A sett [sic] of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment, of the practice of midwifery…
The celebrated atlas for No. 6154, which is a complete work in itself. The 39 superb engravings include 26 after drawings by Jan van Rymsdyk, which are preserved in the Hunterian Collection at the University of Glasgo…
GMN 6154.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7722
1801 CAMPER, Petrus (Pieter) (1722 – 1789)
Icones herniarum. Editae a S. T. Soemmerring.
Camper illustrated his own work, and was an outstanding anatomical artist. His illustrations of hernias are of great value.
GMN 3580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4187
1809 SCARPA, Antonio (1752 – 1832)
Sull’ernie. Memorie anatomico-chirurgiche.
This splendidly illustrated work with life-size plates includes the description of “Scarpa’s fascia” (creasteric fascia) and Scarpa’s triangle of the thigh.
GMN 3583 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4258
1817 CLOQUET, Jules Germain (1790 – 1883)
Recherches anatomiques sur les hernies de l’abdomen.
This is Cloquet’s medical thesis. It was followed by his thesis in competition for head of the anatomy section of the Paris Faculty: Recherches sur les causes et l’anatomie des hernies abdominales. Paris, Méquignon-Ma…
GMN 3585 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4267
1837 WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856)
Surgical observations on tumours, with cases and operations.
The first North American book on tumors, with 16 hand-colored plates by David Claypoole Johnston (1799-1865).
GMN 2611.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3100
1856 –1876 HEITZMANN, Carl (1836 – 1896); HEBRA, Ferdinand Karl Franz Schwarzmann, Ritter von (1816 – 1880); ELFINGER, Anton (1821 – 1864)
Atlas der Hautkrankheiten. 10 parts.
Hebra's work includes 104 spectacular folio-sized chromolithographed plates reproducing paintings by Anton Elfinger and Carl Heitzmann.
GMN 3992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5035
1857 –1861 LEBERT, Hermann (1813 – 1878)
Traité d’anatomie pathologique générale et spéciale. 4 vols.
Lebert set out to cover both general and special pathology. The superb hand-colored folio-sized copperplate engravings of macro- and micropathology in this work are among the finest ever published.
GMN 2297.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2931
1875 –1888 HUTCHINSON, Sir Jonathan (1828 – 1913)
Illustrations of clinical surgery. 2 vols.
Vol. 1 pp. 49-52: Hutchinson’s classic description of cheiropompholyx, dysidrosis (“Hutchinson’s disease”). The first description and illustration of sarcoidosis is on p. 42.
GMN 4067 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5464
1886 –1890 MANSUROV, Nikolai Porfir'evich (1834 – 1892)
Klinicheskii sbornik po dermatologii i sifilologii. 4 vols.
Mansurov was the first dermatologist in Russia, and one of the first physicians to use photography systematically in medical illustration. This was a periodical, illustrated with original photographs, of which Manusro…
GMN 7744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9916
1888 –1918 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893); RICHER, Paul Marie Louis Pierre (1849 – 1933); GILLES DE LA TOURETTE, Georges Albert Édouard Brutus (1857 – 1904); LONDE, Albert (1858 – 1917)
NOUVELLE Iconographie de la Salpêtriere. 28 vols.
Henry Meige, Richer, and other pupils of Charcot published many valuable studies of the constitutional aspects of nervous diseases in the above work, a series unique in the history of medicine and of great value for t…
GMN 4575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8973
1921 HAAS, Walter de (1886 – 1969)
Wunder in uns. Ein Bch von menschlichen Körper für Jedermann von Hanns Günther [Walter de Haas].
Remarkable illustrations in the 1920's "modernizing" industrial style later, made more famous by Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) who got his start by contributing an essay to this work. Günther was the pseudonym of the popular…
GMN 7746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9918
1922 –1931 KAHN, Fritz (1888 – 1968)
Das Leben des Menschen. Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 5 vols.
By developing a new infographics style of illustration in which physiological processes and other technical medical and biological concepts were often depicted as, or compared to machines, Kahn made medical and biolog…
GMN 7649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9821
1959 WILSON, Mitchell; DEWITT, Cornelius Hugh (1905 – 1995); SELIGMANN, Arthur W.
The human body, what it is and how it works. Text by Mitchell Wilson. Illustrations by Cornelius De Witt. Arthur W. Seligmann, M.D., medical consultant.
A modern classic of medical illustration, and the popularization of medicine. The artist is best known for illustrating children's books.
GMN 13256 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15521
1961 KELLETT, Charles Ernest Montchal (1903 – 1978)
Lectures on the iconography of the Chirurgia of Vidus Vidius and the De dissectione of Estienne and Rivière. Given at the University of California Los Angeles October 1961
"Fifty copies of this collection of papers have beem printed for private circulation." Half title and cover title of the volume: Mannerism and Medical Illustration.
GMN 7033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9200
1983 THORNTON, John Leonard (1913 – 1995); REEVES, Carole
Medical book illustration: A short history.
GMN 7653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9825
1985 KARP, Diane R. (1948 – )
Ars medica: Art, medicine, and the human condition.
Fully annotated and illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of paintings, prints, drawings, book illustrations, and photographs. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6610.18 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7658
1990 BRIDSON, Gavin Douglas Ruthven (1936 – 2008); WHITE, James J.
Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.
The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…
GMN 7025 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9192
1991 BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941); CROSBY, Ranice W. (1915 – 2007); CODY, John (1925 – 2016)
Max Brödel, The man who put art into medicine
In the late 1890s, Brödel was brought to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to illustrate for Harvey Cushing, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and other notable clinicians. Besides creating a prolific amount of work B…
GMN 10202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12391
2001 WHEELER, Susan
Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library.
GMN 7654 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9826
2007 NORMAN, Jeremy Michael (1945 – ); EDELL, Dean (1941 – )
Anatomy as art: The Dean Edell collection.
Extensively annotated and well-illustrated catalogue of books, prints, sculptures, and anatomical models from the 15th to 20th centuries, written by Jeremy Norman for the auction sale of Dean Edell's library sold at C…
GMN 6977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9143
2009 DEBSCHITZ, Uta von; DEBSCHITZ, Thilo von
Fritz Kahn: Man machine / Maschine Mensch.
Text and captions in English and German.
GMN 7650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9822
2011 ABTEILUNG GESCHICHTE DER NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN UND TECHNIK
Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450-1950.
http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/hi/gnt/dsi2/index.php? "Welcome to the Database of Illustrators! Courtesy of the Section for History of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart ! Our online database, fully function…
GMN 10008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12197
2012 SAPPOL, Michael
Hidden treasure: The National Library of Medicine. Edited by Michael Sappol.
A visually spectacular collection of illustrated essays on remarkable books, manuscripts, artwork and films in the National Library of Medicine written by numerous historians and edited by Sappol. Photography by Arne …
GMN 7751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9923
2013 DEBSCHITZ, Uta von; DEBSCHITZ, Thilo von
Fritz Kahn.
Text and captions in English, French and German.
GMN 7651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9823
2015 BREDEKAMP, Horst (1947 – ); DÜNKEL, Vera; SCHNEIDER, Birgit
The technical image: A history of styles in scientific imagery.
GMN 7509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9681
2017 OSLER LIBRARY OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Osler Library Prints Collection.
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php "This varied collection of approximately 2,500 prints offers a fascinating look into the history of medicine through popular imagery. The medium of the print, bei…
GMN 8520 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10697
