Anatomical illustration before Vesalius

The fabric of the body: European traditions of anatomical illustration

political unrest. Lunacy can hardly be said to have been perceived as a pressing problem: required by the 1806 Select Committee of the House of Commons to report lunatics in the county, the Bedfordshire magistrates made a "nil" return! Bernard Cashman's excellent history of the asylum (which was closed in 1860 to make way for a bigger one) offers a wholly convincing solution to this conundrum: ...

Lawrence Herbert Wells and the history of anatomical illustration.

The pre-Vesalian history of anatomical illustration, including its ancient Greek and Roman periods, is surveyed. While dissection was abandoned in Alexandria under the Romans, it was revived in Italy during the Renaissance, and the invention of printing prompted the avalanche of documents which has cascaded ever since. The considerable contribution of the late Professor Lawrence H. Wells to the...

Accuracy and Artistry in Anatomical Illustration of Perivascular Adipose Tissue

Vesalius and Paracelsus.

Introduction As we commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Andreas Vesalius, our thoughts may turn to another sixteenth-century figure who made an epoch-making contribution to medicine: to Paracelsus.1 At first glance, they seem as much alike as fire and water. Their life and work had its setting in different cultural milieus. The tempestuous character of the German reformati...

Versions of vesalius.

Andreas Vesalius reformed anatomical knowledge and teaching in the Renaissance by adopting Galenic methods from the classical past. His careful drawings revealed the human body in unprecedented and realistic detail, but the images of himself were more ambiguous.