1829 GERDY, Pierre Nicolas (1797 – 1856)
Anatomie des formes extérieures du corps humain appliquée à la peinture, à la sculpture et à la chirurgie.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13359
1831 –1854 BOURGERY, Jean Baptiste Marc (1797 – 1849); JACOB, Nicolas-Henri (1782 – 1871)
Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, comprenant la médecine opératoire. 16 vols.
With over 2000 pages of text and 726 lithographed plates (incorporating 3604 individual figures), this work is the most comprehensive, and perhaps the most beautiful anatomical surgical atlas of the 19th century. It w…
GMN 7246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9415
1833 FLAXMAN, John (1755 – 1826); LANDSEER, Sir Edwin Henry (1802 – 1873)
Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists. From drawings by the late John Flaxman, Esq. R.A. Engraved by Henry Landseer. With two additional plates, and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
Digital facsimile from digitalcollections.nypl.org at this link.
GMN 411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/912
1833 LORDAT, Jacques (1773 – 1870)
Essai sur l’iconologie médicale, ou sur les rapports d’utilité qui existent entre l’art du dessin et l’étude de la médecine.
Pioneering study of art and medicine based on collections at Montpellier.
GMN 6604.93 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8567
1840 FABRE, François (1797 – 1854); DAUMIER, Honoré-Victorin (1808 – 1879)
Némésis médicale illustrée, recueil de satires par François Fabre....contenant trente vignettes dessinées par M. Daumier... 2 vols.
The only medical book illustrated by Honoré Daumier (1808-79), and a great satire in verse on the medical profession. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 6604.94 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8568
1851 MACLISE, Joseph (1815 – 1880)
Surgical anatomy.
"The drawings of Maclise for Quain's Anatomy of the arteries and for his own Surgical anatomy are indeed done, as Quain wrote, with spirit and effect. These figures of anatomical dissection seem lifelike; in many plat…
GMN 13302 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15568
1852 KNOX, Robert (1791 – 1862)
A manual of artistic anatomy.
Knox, remembered because of his indiscreet association with the Edinburgh “resurrectionists”, was one of the best teachers of anatomy during the 19th century.
GMN 415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/945
1852 CHOULANT, Johann Ludwig (1791 – 1861)
Geschichte und Bibliographie der anatomischen Abbildung.
In this classic work Choulant traced the evolution of anatomical illustration from the early schematic plates up to his own time, including a valuable bibliography. Reprinted, Wiesbaden, 1974. An English translation b…
GMN 440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1098
1861 CATLIN, George (1796 – 1872)
The breath of life; or mal-respiration, and its effects upon the enjoyments and life of man.
Catlin, the famous American artist, was the first in America to call attention to the bad effects of mouth-breathing. He based his book on observations of native American practices, and illustrated his book with humor…
GMN 3267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3961
1861 MARX, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 – 1877)
Ueber die Beziehungen der darstellenden Kunst zur Heilkunst. Aus dem zehnten Bande der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12228
1864 LARTET, Édouard (1801 – 1871); CHRISTY, Henry (1810 – 1865)
Cavernes du Périgord. Objets gravés et sculptés des temps pré-historiques dans l’Europe occidentale.
In 1863 Lartet and Christy began systematically examining the caves in the Périgord (Dordogne) region of France. This study of mobiliary or portable art, such as carved stones, carved ivory, carved bones, or carved re…
GMN 7258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9427
1875 LARTET, Édouard (1801 – 1871); CHRISTY, Henry (1810 – 1865); JONES, Thomas Rupert (1819 – 1911)
Reliquiae Aquitanicae; being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Périgord and the adjoining provinces of southern France. Edited by Thomas Rupert Jones.
This beautiful and bibliographically complicated work was issued in 17 parts from 1865 to 1875. It includes 82 tinted lithographic plates, and is the first visually spectacular large extensively illustrated publicatio…
GMN 9492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11677
1877 SAYRE, Lewis Albert (1820 – 1900)
Spinal disease and spinal curvature, their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage.
Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic quali…
GMN 4344.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5717
1877 RIMMER, William (1816 – 1879)
Art anatomy.
Perhaps the first great American anatomy for artists by an American painter and sculptor. Rimmer not only drew the 900 drawings on the 81 heliotype plates, but he also wrote in the explanatory text on the sheets along…
GMN 11096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13292
1886 KOLLMANN, Julius Konstantin Ernst (1834 – 1918)
Plastische Anatomie des menschlichen Körpers.
“Illustrated with lithographs from hand-drawings, photographs from the nude, ethnic studies of facial features…The text…is of unusual historic interest, and includes special chapters on the anatomy of the infant, huma…
GMN 427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1023
1887 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893); RICHER, Paul Marie Louis Pierre (1849 – 1933)
Les démoniaques dans l’art.
Charcot was a talented artist; he collaborated with Richer, artist at La Salpêtrière, in the production of interesting books on disease and deformity, and aspects of medicine and art.
GMN 6605 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8571
1889 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893); RICHER, Paul Marie Louis Pierre (1849 – 1933)
Les difformes et les malades dans l’art.
Reprinted Amsterdam, B.M.Israël, 1972
GMN 6606 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8573
1890 RICHER, Paul Marie Louis Pierre (1849 – 1933)
Anatomie artistique: Decription des formes extérieures du corps human au repos et dans les principaux mouvements. Avec 100 planches renfermant plus de 300 figures dessinées par l'auteur. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 10600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12793
1892 –1896 BRAMWELL, Sir Byrom (1847 – 1931)
Atlas of clinical medicine. 3 vols.
Published at the end of the 19th century, and employing the wide variety of illustration technologies then available, including color lithography, lithography, and photography, this work testifies to the breadth and d…
GMN 10621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12814
1893 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); SABACHNIKOFF, Theodore (Fyodor Vasilyevich Sabašnikov) (1869 – 1927); PIUMATI, Giovanni (1850 – 1915); RAVAISSON-MOLLIEN, Charles Lacher (1849 – 1919)
Leonardo da Vinci: Codice sul volo degli uccelli e varie altre materie. Pubblicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcrizione e note di Giovanni Piumati; traduzione francese di Carlo Ravaisson-Mollien.
The scientific study of the mechanics of flight begins with Leonardo’s investigations on birds, undertaken during his attempts to build a flying machine. At the time of publication Sabachnikoff owned the manuscript. A…
GMN 93 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/53
1894 CURSCHMANN, Heinrich (1846 – 1910)
Klinische Abbildungen: Sammlung von Darstellungen der Veränderung der äusseren Körperform bei inneren Krankheiten.
Includes 57 fine heliogravure reproductions of artistic photographs of disease, including numerous congenital deformities. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12788
1894 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11121 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13317
1896 EDER, Josef Maria (1855 – 1944); VALENTA, Eduard (1857 – 1937)
Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen.
"Eder was the director of an institute for graphic processes and the author of an early history of photography. With the photochemist Valenta, he produced a portfolio in January 1896, less than a month after Wilhelm C…
GMN 10607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12800
1896 KÖNIG, Carl Georg Walter (1859 – 1936)
14 Photographien mit Röntgen-strahlen aufgenommen im physikaloschen Verein zu Frankfurt A. M.
This collection of x-ray photographs published within a few months of Röntgen's discovery includes applications in archaeology and anthropology (x-rays of mummies) and forensic medicine (for the investigation of gunsh…
GMN 10608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12801
1898 –1901 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); SABACHNIKOFF, Theodore (Fyodor Vasilyevich Sabašnikov) (1869 – 1927); PIUMATI, Giovanni (1850 – 1915)
I manoscritti de Leonardo da Vinci della Reale Biblioteca di Windsor. Pubblicata da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcritti e annotati da Giovanni Piumati. 2 vols.
Includes folios A & B of his anatomical MSS. Text in French and Italian.
GMN 364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/416
1900 PETERS, Hermann (1847 – 1920)
Der Arzt und die Heilkunst in der deutschen Vergangenheit.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10918
1900 MCCLELLAN, George (1849 – 1913)
Anatomy in its relation to art. An exposition of the bones and muscles of the human body with especial reference to their influence upon its actions and external form.
The work was offered for sale by J. B. Lippincott with title pages dated 1901. Digital facsimile of the Lippincott issue from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12781
1902 RICHER, Paul Marie Louis Pierre (1849 – 1933)
L’art et la médecine.
GMN 6607 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8575
1903 HOLLANDER, Eugen (1867 – 1932)
Die Medizin in der klassischen Malerei.
4th edition, 1950 (a re-impression of 3rd edition, 1923).
GMN 6608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8577
1903 WITKOWSKI, Gustave-Joseph (1844 – 1922)
Les seins dans l'histoire.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13315
1904 MÜLLERHEIM, Robert Nathan (1862 – )
Die Wochenstube in der Kunst.
GMN 6290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8022
1908 PETTIGREW, James Bell (1834 – 1908)
Design in nature illustrated by spiral and other arrangements in the inorganic and organic kingdoms as exemplified in matter, force, life, growth, rhythms, &c., especially in crystals, plants, and animals. 3 vols.
"Illustrated by nearly two thousand figures, mostly original and from nature." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14495
1910 FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci.
The first psychoanalytic investigation in art.
GMN 6608.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8579
1911 –1916 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); FONAHN, Adolf Mauritz (1873 – 1940); VANGENSTEN, Ove Conrad Langaard (1880 – 1946); HOPSTOCK, Halfdan (1866 – 1925)
Leonardo da Vinci: Quaderni d’anatomia I-VI. Fogli della Royal Library di Windsor, pubblicati da Ove C.L. Vangensten, A. Fonahn, H. Hopstock. 6 vols.
Leonardo, “the greatest artist and scientist of the Italian Renaissance, was the founder of iconographic and physiologic anatomy” (Garrison). He made over 750 sketches of all the principal organs of the body, drawings…
GMN 365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/422
1911 LANDOUZY, Louis Théophile Joseph (1845 – 1917); LEGRAND, Noé (1875 – 1915)
Les collections artistiques de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris: Inventaire raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné of the collection of paintings, drawings, prints, medals and sculptures belonging to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 8692 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10869
1912 HOLLANDER, Eugen (1867 – 1932)
Plastik und Medizin.
GMN 6609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8582
1914 CRAWFURD, Sir Raymond Henry Payne (1865 – 1938)
Plague and pestilence in literature and art.
Deals with the subject up to the end of the 18th century. Revised ed., 1951.
GMN 5138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6151
1915 BRUCK, Walther
Das Martyrium der heiligen Apollonia und seine Darstellung in der bildenden Kunst.
Illustrates with 100 plates various early depictions of the martyrdom of St. Apollonia, patron saint of dentistry. Saint Apollonia was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria, Egypt during a local …
GMN 13031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15281
1917 GAUTIER D’AGOTY, Jacques Fabien (1716 – 1785); SINGER, Hans Wolfgang (1867 – 1957); LADMIRAL, Jan [l'Admiral] (1698 – 1773)
Der Vierfarbendruck in der Gefolgschaft Jacob Christoffel Le Blons mit Oeuvre-Verzeichnissen der Familie Gautier-Dagoty, J. Roberts, J. Ladmirals und C. Lasinios
GMN 7494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9666
1922 HOLLANDER, Eugen (1867 – 1932)
Wunder, Wundgeburt und Wundergestalt in Einblattdrucken des 15-18. Jahrhunderts.
History of teratology in art from 15th to 18th centuries.
GMN 6609.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8583
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
1925 VETH, Cornelis (1880 – 1962)
De arts in de caricatuur.
German edition, Berlin, 1927.
GMN 6610 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8586
1928 HOLLANDER, Eugen (1867 – 1932)
Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.
An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.
GMN 194.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3478
1928 CABANÈS, Augustin (1862 – 1928)
Esculape chez les artistes.
Chapters and illustrations on deformities, infirmities, medicine, surgery, etc.
GMN 6610.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8588
1931 WARTHIN, Aldred Scott (1866 – 1931)
The physician of the Dance of Death: A historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art.
"Reprinted with additions and corrections from Annals of medical history (n. s., vol. II, nos. 4, 5, 6, 1930, and vol. III, nos. 1, 2, 1931)."
GMN 9449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11632
1938 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); MACCURDY, Edward [McCurdy] (1871 – 1957)
The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. Arranged, rendered into English and introduced by Edward MacCurdy. 2 vols.
2nd edition, 1956 (reprinted London, Cape, 1977).
GMN 94 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1473
1945 MARSH, Reginald (1898 – 1954)
Anatomy for artists.
By the famous American social realist artist.
GMN 9177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11356
1949 LERICHE, Henri Marie René (1879 – 1955); MATISSE, Henri (1869 – 1954)
La chirurgie discipline de la connaissance.
Three hundred copies on papier vélin contain a lithographed portrait of Leriche drawn and hand-signed and numbered by Henri Matisse.
GMN 12784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15030
1952 LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452 – 1519); O’MALLEY, Charles Donald (1907 – 1970); SAUNDERS, John Bertrand deCusance Morant (1903 – 1991)
Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.
Includes 215 plates.
GMN 366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/430
1952 KRIS, Ernst (1900 – 1957)
Psychoanalytic explorations in art.
Kris trained as an art historian before becoming a psychoanalyst.
GMN 9738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11925
