Fuck yeah, medical stuff!

realhorrorshowlike:

Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty.

Anatomie générale des viscères et de la névrologie, angéologie et ostéologie du corps humain, en figures de couleurs et grandeurs naturelles.

Paris, 1754.

A compleat treatise of the muscles, as they appear in the humane body, and arise in dissection…

London, 1681. Copperplate engraving. National Library of Medicine.

Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams…

Amsterdam, 1690. Copperplate engraving with etching. National Library of Medicine.

Govard Bidloo
(1649-1713)
[anatomist];

Gérard de Lairesse
(1640-1711)
[artist]

Bidloo’s realistic anatomy has affinities to trompe l’oeil and still-life, two popular genres of 17th-century Netherlandish painting that often featured bones and other symbols of death.

De Humani Corporis Fabrica…

Basel, 1543. Woodcut. National Library of Medicine.

Andreas Vesalius
(1514-1564)
[anatomist]

Stephen van Calcar and the Workshop of Titian
[artists]

Vesalius sought to make illustrations that were true to nature, but many of his figures conform to classical ideals of beauty and proportion, and stand in classical poses.

The nerves of the scalp, face, and side of neck.

Anatomia del corpo humano…

Rome, 1559. Copperplate engraving. National Library of Medicine.

Juan Valverde de Amusco
(ca. 1525 - ca. 1588)
[anatomist]

A flayed cadaver holds his skin in one hand and a dissecting knife in the other. The skin’s distorted face has the appearance of a ghost or a cloud, suggesting that spirit has been separated from, or peeled off of, the fleshy inner man.

Tabulae Anatomicae

Venice, 1627. Copperplate engraving. National Library of Medicine.

Giulio Casserio
(ca. 1552-1616)
[anatomist]

Odoardo Fialetti
[artist]