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Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty

Monday, June 25th, 2007

From Myolgie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle, by Jacques Fabian Gautier d’Agoty, 1746. Reproduced with permission from the W. W. Kellogg Health Sciences Library at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
(via a fantastic new blog called Morbid Anatomy)
Related:

Charles Bell brain engraving
Historical neuroanatomy
Rudolph Leuckart Wall Charts

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Another hole in the head

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

There was a fantastic response to my illustrated history of trepanation, including an amusing post at Table of Malcontents, and this painting via Bioephemera, which depicts an instrument that’s very similar to the transverse handle brace trepan described by Ambroise Paré in the late sixteenth century.
UPDATE: Vaughan has unearthed a 1923 paper about a ninth […]

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