The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1931
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Credit: The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    artists. The caricatures of Hogarth and Rowlandson and of the French school of their period were in the main unfriendly. Some of them were savage attacks and were of the gross character which marked the humour of the age in which they were produced. The tradition survived but in a modified form with Caron D’Ache in France. In modern England the gentle caricatures which appeared weekly, in the periodical known as Vanity Fair, came from the pen¬ cils of “Spy” and “Ape.” They were really portaits slightly exaggerating some feature or characteristic attitude of the subject which made them easily recognisable and were perhaps better than the more formal pictures as giving a true picture of the man. Good news comes from Vienna that a catalogue is in preparation of the Josef Brettauer collection which consists of about 7000 medals dealing with medicine. Dr. Josef Brettauer of Trieste died in 1905 and the collection came into the possession of the University of Vienna. It covers a wide field and will soon be open for exploration by medical monographers, for the catalogue will be prepared by Prof. Max Neuburger and Dr. August Loehr. So far as is known at present the collection consists of a section dealing with physi¬ cians—ancient and modern—of all times and nations; of another dealing with epidemics and of a group referring to the gods of healing and patrons of medi¬ cine; to medical corporations and congresses; to nurs¬ ing, pharmacy and veterinary medicine.
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