Ep. 2 Art & Medicine (Pre-1850)
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Marble votive relief fragment of goddesses, mother, nurse, and infant, Greek, late 5th century BCE, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Material Medica of Dioscorides, Abdullah ibn al-Fadl, 1224 CE, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Oxen amongst Foliage", Folio from a Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishy, Ibn Bakhtishu, 1297-99, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Personal Image of Four Humors
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Coconut cup in form of an owl, c.1600, Kunstkammer Georg Laure (TEFAF Maastricht 2020)
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Hildegard von Bingen empfängt eine göttliche Inspiration und gibt sie an ihren Schreiber weiter, Miniatur aus dem Rupertsberger Codex des Liber Scivias, date unknown
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De humane corporis fabric (Of the Structure of the Human Body), Andreas Vesalius, 1555, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci, c.1489, Gallerie dell’Accademia (Venice)
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Anatomy drawing, Leonardo da Vinci, c.1489, Private Collection
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Helpful Resources
Wikipedia
Medieval medicine of Western Europe [Link]
Early Middle Ages [Link]
Egyptian Medicine [Link]
Ancient Greek Medicine [Link]
Miasma Theory [Link]
Hildegard of Bingen [Link]
Books & Essays
"Medicine in the Middle Ages" by Sigrid Goldiner, Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications (January 2012) [Link]
Medieval Art 2nd Ed. by Marilyn Stokstad [Link]
"Medicine in the Middle Ages" by Alice Bovey (30 Apr, 2015) [Link]