Medieval medical illustration

Though weird and painful, there is historical evidence that these surgical devices were actually used.

@Libroantiguo Story of the Eye: 'Liber de Oculis ...' England 14th:15th century British Library Sloane 981 fol. 68r. https://t.co/YoctOIQSiG

Margarita philosophica [totius philosophiae rationalis, naturalis et moralis principia dialogice duodecim libris complectens] / [Gregor Reisch].

Sketching skulls, painting pancreases.

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 857 I’ve written a few times in this blog (here, here and here) about what I think is found/unintentional antiquarian Dadaist art and would like today to continue that thread with the following two...

A new exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in London shows how our understanding of anatomy has been represented by illustrators.

The following images are all taken from Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen Medizinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des 15. Jahrhunderts (1907) by Karl Sudhoff - a book on the topic of medical illustrations in manuscripts and early printed books (primarily) of the 15th century.