Neurology in Art

In 1861, the medical historian K. F. X. Marx published an essay of seventy-four pages on medicine in the graphic arts, containing the first list of paintings and engravings relating to medicine. Unnoticed in its time, this pamphlet opened a new pathway of research which has since been retraced and extended by many investigators, more particularly in the subsequent lists made by Sudhoff, in the well known illustrated books of Charcot, Holl änder, Müllerheim and Parkes-Weber, and in various magazine articles of more recent date. The subject is one of immense interest to the physician who loves his profession, for paintings and engravings, old and new, tell more about the physician’s social and professional status in the different p eriods than does the printed literature. Many diseases have been accurately represented (without diagnosis tag) in the paintings and sculptures of the past.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research