Saturday, January 23, 2010

History of Medicine Images


A statue of Asclepius.



The hieroglyphic for brain from The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (17th century B.C.)




Physician treating a patient. Red-figure Attic aryballos, ca. 480–470 BC.



Trepanation, as described by Hans von Gersdorff in Feldbuch der Wundartzney (1517)


Image from Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543), page 164.




Image from 11th century AH (17th century AD) Persian manuscript by Mansur ibn Muhammad 
Ahmad at the Majles Library, Tehran.




Drug Ampoules



The earliest illustration of tuberous sclerosis, displayed in Rayer's 1835: "Traité des maladies de la peau".

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