Visualizing Disease: The Art and History of Pathological Illustrations

311 Pages·2017·16.68 MB·English

by  Domenico Bertoloni Meli

Visualizing Disease

V i s ua l i z i n g
I
D S AS
e
E
The Art and
History of
Pathological
Illustrations
domenico bertoloni meli
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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Published 2017
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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-11029-5 (cloth)
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-46363-6 (e-book)
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226463636.001.0001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bertoloni Meli, Domenico, author.
Title: Visualizing disease : the art and history of pathological illustrations
/ Domenico Bertoloni Meli.
Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
| Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016057353 | ISBN 9780226110295 (cloth : alk. paper)
| ISBN 9780226463636 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Medical illustration—History. | Medicine and art—History.
| Anatomy, Artistic—History.
Classification: LCC R836 .B47 2017 | DDC 610.22/2—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016057353
∞ This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992
(Permanence of Paper).
A physician, in looking at his patient, ought, in imagination,
to turn him inside out.
Anne Hope, Memoir

THis book is dedicATed To THe memory of All
THose pATienTs wHose medicAl condiTion
fosTered THe sTudy of diseAse

Contents
Preface
xi
Introduction: Bodies, Diseases, Images
1
1 2
Visualizing Disease in the Early “Sic nata est anatome pathologica
Modern Period picta”: The Diseases of Bones
23 53
3 4
Preserved Specimens and Intermezzo: Identifying
Comprehensive Treatises Disease in Its Inception
81 107
5 6
The Nosology of Cutaneous Diseases Morbid Anatomy in Color
125 155
7
Comprehensive Treatises in Color
185
Concluding Reflections
211
Acknowledgments Notes
223 231
Illustration Credits Bibliography
225 253
List of Abbreviations Index
229 285