#medicalhistory

The musée d’histoire de la médecine in Paris. A lovely way to spend an hour if you’re a nerdlinger like me.
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#history #historyofmedicine #medicalhistory #paris #theparisguru #paris_focus_on #parisphotography #parisestmagique #seulementparis #jaimeparis #parisgram #parismaville #parislifestyle #travelawesome #wanderlust #instatravel #igersfrance #parisgram #parisjetaime #igersparis #parisienne #parisian #parismonamour #topparisphoto #historynerd #medicine #histoire #historical #historia #docsofinsta #histoiredefrance (at Musée d'histoire de la médecine)
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Late 18th/early 19th-century experiments with corpses and electricity. #galvanism

#itsalivefrankensteinat200 #medicalhistory (at The Morgan Library & Museum)
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Red chalk drawing by William Hogarth for his circa-1750 etching The Reward of Cruelty.
#williamhogarth #therewardofcruelty #autopsy #medicalhistory #itsalivefrankensteinat200 (at The Morgan Library & Museum)
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Agata, acrylic on linen, 2020

Source image: “Illustration of Agata Lapieruz who lost her nose, upper lip, and bottom half of eyelids after being afflicted by ‘reddish patches covered with tiny blisters that soon dry up and flake off’. Rapidly changing form and location, the sores eventually formed crusts and attacked the soft flesh of the face.”

From the National Library of Medicine archives. Labeled as syphilis.

I have lost myself, so to say.
Acrylic on linen, 2019.
Based on a 1906 photograph of Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimers.

Bird I & II
both are acrylic on canvas, 5 x 7″
2019
Based on photographs by Hugh Welch Diamond of a patient at the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum. Circa 1840-1850′s.

Some Good My Gentle Master for God’s Sake, acrylic on canvas, 2019

Source: Three skulls showing the effects of leprosy (middle images). Title references the text above a medieval illumination of a leper holding a bell (bottom image). 

Lepers weren’t stigmatized in medieval Europe, and in fact were held in high regard. Their suffering on earth guaranteed them a place in heaven without having to spend time in purgatory first. The reason they were pictured with bells was because the disease affected the vocal chords which made speaking difficult. The bell was used for communication, not as a warning. 

Earrings, acrylic on canvas, 2019

“Among chronic diseases, Syphilis is the one of greatest frequency and highest importance. Few physicians are incompetent to treat the disease successfully when its nature is apparent, but there are many who are unfamiliar with its most characteristic forms. The surest diagnosis is that which is based solely unpon observation; and it can be safely asserted that of the numerous and varied symptoms of Syphilis, there are none which point so unerringly to a specific origin as do its cutaneous lesions.” - George Henry Fox,  Photographic Illustrations of Cutaneous Syphilis.1881.

Mask, acrylic on linen, 2019

Images painted from The Dr. Ikkaku Ochi Collection

Exploded view of an adult skull.
Large original lithograph from Marc Bourgery’s landmark anatomical atlas ’ Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme… … ’, Paris, volume I, 1834. $300.00 Facsimile of title and frontis included. For more information and scans contact me at [email protected] #art #illustration #interiordecorating #interiordesign #decorating #design #antiqueprints #antique #vintageprints #vintage #engraving #oldbook #oldprints #printmaking #prints #anatomy #medical #medicine #medicalhistory #anatomical #doctor #surgery #morbid #bones #death
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