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Philippe Verheyen (1648-1711) Dissecting His Amputated Limb By an anonymous artist, ca. 1715. Postmortem painting in honor of a famous Belgian anatomist and surgeon. Medium: Oil on Panel. Size: 16.3”X16.5” From the collection of Pieter Deheijde.

Philippe Verheyen (1648-1711) Dissecting His Amputated Limb

By an anonymous artist, ca. 1715. Postmortem painting in honor of a famous Belgian anatomist and surgeon.

Medium: Oil on Panel. Size: 16.3”X16.5”

From the collection of Pieter Deheijde.

Tumorific! Pterygium, staphyloma, scurrhius eye, and fistula lacrymalis figures, with suture diagrams. A General System of Surgery. Dr. Laurence Heister, 1745.

Tumorific!

Pterygium, staphyloma, scurrhius eye, and fistula lacrymalis figures, with suture diagrams.

A General System of Surgery. Dr. Laurence Heister, 1745.

1450 reproduction of Guy de Chauliac illustration of setting a dislocated shoulder. Guy de Chauliac (1300-1368) was one of the first doctors to re-introduce science and legitimacy to medicine. His surgical manuscripts were translated into pretty much every language in late Medieval Europe, including English (in 1425), and were the most influential clinical practice books for over a century.  He was also the physician to Popes Clement VI, Innocent VI, and Urbain V. When the Black Death came to Avignon, he was one of the few physicians who remained. He got quite sick a few weeks after the first Black Death case, but survived. De Chauliac kept very exacting records of each case he treated, and is thought to be the first European to differentiate between Pneumonic Plague and Bubonic Plague.

1450 reproduction of Guy de Chauliac illustration of setting a dislocated shoulder.

Guy de Chauliac (1300-1368) was one of the first doctors to re-introduce science and legitimacy to medicine. His surgical manuscripts were translated into pretty much every language in late Medieval Europe, including English (in 1425), and were the most influential clinical practice books for over a century. 

He was also the physician to Popes Clement VI, Innocent VI, and Urbain V. When the Black Death came to Avignon, he was one of the few physicians who remained. He got quite sick a few weeks after the first Black Death case, but survived. De Chauliac kept very exacting records of each case he treated, and is thought to be the first European to differentiate between Pneumonic Plague and Bubonic Plague.

Who was it that wanted medieval images? I mostly leave the older realm to The Study of Man, but I have a few good medieval miniatures/illustrations that I’ll post today. 11th Century English Surgery Miniature Lower Right: Removal of hemorrhoids Upper and Lower Left: Patient with gout being treated with cutting and burning of feet Upper Right: ?? Looks like buboes in the groin, but I don’t know why the buboes wouldn’t be in the other lymph nodes.

Who was it that wanted medieval images? I mostly leave the older realm to The Study of Man, but I have a few good medieval miniatures/illustrations that I’ll post today.

11th Century English Surgery Miniature

Lower Right: Removal of hemorrhoids

Upper and Lower Left: Patient with gout being treated with cutting and burning of feet

Upper Right: ?? Looks like buboes in the groin, but I don’t know why the buboes wouldn’t be in the other lymph nodes.

Pompeii had preserved Roman medical tools. Some of them were nearly the same as what were used over 1800 years later.

Left: Reproductions of Pompeii surgical instruments at National Museum of Medicine

Right: Cours d’Operations de Chirurgie. M. Dionis, 1757.

1944. A young surgeon and his assistants perform emergency surgery on an injured soldier. One man is dripping ether onto a makeshift gauze mask for anesthesia.

1944. A young surgeon and his assistants perform emergency surgery on an injured soldier. One man is dripping ether onto a makeshift gauze mask for anesthesia.

Soldier being embalmed by surgeon during US Civil War - though embalming was an art pioneered by a few specialists on the east coast, embalming duties after battle (at least in the Union) often fell to the same surgeons who may have had to attempt to save that soldier’s life just hours earlier.

Soldier being embalmed by surgeon during US Civil War - though embalming was an art pioneered by a few specialists on the east coast, embalming duties after battle (at least in the Union) often fell to the same surgeons who may have had to attempt to save that soldier’s life just hours earlier.

Re-setting bones and joints. Fig I. Compound fracture of humerus Fig II. Luxation [complete dislocation] of elbow  Fig III. Luxation of humerus Fig IV. “Restoration of femoris” - I haven’t the slightest what’s happening there. Restoring the femur or something femoral, presumably.  Armamentarium chirurgicum. Ioannis Sculteti [Johannes Schultes], 1655.

Re-setting bones and joints.

Fig I. Compound fracture of humerus

Fig II. Luxation [complete dislocation] of elbow 

Fig III. Luxation of humerus

Fig IV. “Restoration of femoris” - I haven’t the slightest what’s happening there. Restoring the femur or something femoral, presumably. 

Armamentarium chirurgicum. Ioannis Sculteti [Johannes Schultes], 1655.

Injuries of the nose, with marked deformity, are in a measure combated by devices invented for restoring the missing portions of the injured member. Taliacoitus, the distinguished Italian surgeon of the sixteenth century, devised an operation that now bears his name, and consists in fashioning a nose from the fleshy tissues of the arm. The arm is approximated to the head and held in this position by an apparatus or system of bandages for about ten days, at which time it is supposed that it can be severed, and further trimming and paring of the nose is practised. A column is subsequently made from the upper lip. -Drs. George M. Gould & Walter L. Pyle, in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine. 1900. ————— Using one body part to save or regenerate another is apparently a much older practice than I thought. Attaching a severed foot, ear, or other extremity to the highly-vascularized stomach to regenerate vessels before attempting re-attachment at its proper site is fairly common these days. It’s especially common in re-attachment attempts where the severed body part was detached for an extended period of time that normally would result in an unsuccessful re-attachment.

Injuries of the nose, with marked deformity, are in a measure combated by devices invented for restoring the missing portions of the injured member. Taliacoitus, the distinguished Italian surgeon of the sixteenth century, devised an operation that now bears his name, and consists in fashioning a nose from the fleshy tissues of the arm. The arm is approximated to the head and held in this position by an apparatus or system of bandages for about ten days, at which time it is supposed that it can be severed, and further trimming and paring of the nose is practised. A column is subsequently made from the upper lip.

-Drs. George M. Gould & Walter L. Pyle, in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine. 1900.

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Using one body part to save or regenerate another is apparently a much older practice than I thought. Attaching a severed foot, ear, or other extremity to the highly-vascularized stomach to regenerate vessels before attempting re-attachment at its proper site is fairly common these days. It’s especially common in re-attachment attempts where the severed body part was detached for an extended period of time that normally would result in an unsuccessful re-attachment.