A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987.
- Wellcome Historical Medical Library
- Date:
- 1987
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: A mirror for medicine : some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library an exhibition, Monday 19 October - Friday 18 December 1987. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![a headpiece by Sebastien Le Clerc showing Aesculapius recalling Hippolytus to life, is analogous to the pictorial theses popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, of which there are several medical and surgical examples. Occupational Medicine 9. Bernardino Ramazzini [1633-1714]. A treatise of the diseases of trades- men ... now done in English. London: A. Bell, etc. 1705. The anonymous first English translation of Ramazzini's classic treatise on occu- pational diseases. The work was first published in Italian at Modena in 1700. It includes sections on the occupational diseases of surgeons, apothecaries, mid- wives, wetnurses and physicians. Chiropody 10. Nicolas Laurent La Forest. L'art de soigner les pieds. Paris: The author, etc. 1782. La Forest held a court appointment as 'Chirurgien-Pedicure' to the King and Royal Family. His book, first published in 1781, is regarded as the earliest significant work on chiropody and has been translated into German, Danish, Italian, Spanish and English. The edition of 1782, shown here, includes a section on the importance of the proper care of soldiers' feet. La Forest offered to train selected soldiers to serve as regimental chiropodists. Hygiene 11. John Howard [1726-90]. An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe. Warrington: W. Eyres. 1789. Howard's interest in prison hygiene was stimulated by his appointment as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773. The rest of his life was devoted to a campaign for the reform of conditions in prisons, hospitals and similar establishments. He made tours of inspection in Britain and Europe and his writings contain a wealth of information on matters of design, hygiene, etc. His account of the lazarettos is particularly concerned with plague and quarantine. Travel 12. Mungo Park [1771-1806]. Travels in the interior districts of Africa ... in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. London: W. Buhner for the author. 1799. Many great explorers and naturalists were originally trained as medical men. Mungo Park, a surgeon, explored the course of the Niger and Gambia and his account of his travels in 1795-97 includes information on the natural history and diseases of the area. He met his death in 1806 on a second expedition. - 17-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20456852_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
