Books

The paper trail, which on this subject is unusually rich. The Edwin Smith papyrus from about 1600 BC, the earliest surviving surgical document. Vesalius in 1543 and the engravings copied from him for centuries. The Sushruta Samhita. Al-Zahrawi. The great illustrated atlases of the nineteenth century, the journals, the case books, and the trade catalogues. These are instructional documents by intent, and they are held here as historical objects: what they are and why they mattered, never what they instruct.

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  1. - Eygptian Medicine; Papyrus. Edwin Smith Papyrus Recto Column 2 (Cases 3-6). The Edwin Smith Papyrus, copied circa 1600 BCE and thought to derive from an older text, sets out 48 cases of wounds and fractures ordered from the skull downward.
  2. - EdSmPaPlateVIandVIIPrintsx. Edwin Smith Papyrus, Recto Column 7 (left) and Column 6 (right), containing Cases 12-20. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, copied circa 1600 BCE and thought to derive from an older text, sets out 48 cases of wounds and fractures ordered from the skull downward.
  3. - Images from Edwin Smith Papyrus. Edwin Smith Papyrus Recto Column 14 (Cases 41-43) Original papyrus on left, Hieroglyphic transliterations on right. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, copied circa 1600 BCE and thought to derive from an older text, sets out 48 cases of wounds and fractures ordered from the skull downward.
  4. - Edwin Smith Papyrus v2. The Edwin Smith papyrus, the world's oldest surviving surgical document. The Edwin Smith Papyrus, copied circa 1600 BCE and thought to derive from an older text, sets out 48 cases of wounds and fractures ordered from the skull downward.
  5. - Page from Edwin Smith surgical papyrus... 2 (Cases 3-6). The Edwin Smith Papyrus, copied circa 1600 BCE and thought to derive from an older text, sets out 48 cases of wounds and fractures ordered from the skull downward.
  6. - Reduction of a dislocated mandible by a Greek surgeon.. 's 1544 commentary on the Hippocratic surgical texts.
  7. - The Susruta-Samhita or Sahottara-Tantra (A Treatise on Ayurvedic Medicine) LACMA M.87.271a-g (1 of 8). Nepal, Text- 12th-13th century; Images- 18th-19th century Books Ink and opaque watercolor on palm leaf Gift of Emeritus Professor and Mrs. Thomas O. Ballinger (M.87.271a-g) South and Southeast Asian Art. The Sushruta Samhita, circa 600 BCE, describes the management of fractures and dislocations, including a classification of fracture types.
  8. - Treatise on Surgery of al-Zahrawi (CBL Ar 3172, ff. 49b-50a). Treatise on Surgery (Al-tasrif li-man' ajiza'an al-tal'if) of al-Zahrawi. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, latinised Albucasis, of Cordoba, wrote the thirty-volume Kitab al-Tasrif whose final surgical volume was illustrated with drawings of instruments.
  9. - Chirurgia e Graeco in Latinum conversa, traduction en latin par Vidus Vidius - btv1b90670219 (236 of 356). Sujet : Galien, Claude (0131?-0201?) Hippocrate (0460-0377 av. The Hippocratic bench, or scamnum, was a wooden traction apparatus with windlasses.
  10. - Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, 1543. Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564 Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem; Basileae, 1543; EPB/D 6560/D. Page 192: skeleton leaning against a wall. Andreas Vesalius published De humani corporis fabrica in 1543.
  11. - Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis. Anatomical work by Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis (Vesalius). Andreas Vesalius published De humani corporis fabrica in 1543.
  12. - Ambroise Paré using the ligature when amputating on the batt. Nineteenth and early twentieth century operative atlases are heavily digitised and are literally instructional documents. They are admissible here as artefacts of their period.
  13. - Anatomisch theater Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, invictissimi Caroli V. Imperatoris medici, de Humani corporis fabrica Libri septem (titel op object) Titelpagina voor Andreas Vesalius, De humani corpo. 1555, RP-P-2016-1796. IdentificatieTitel(s): Anatomisch theater. Andreas Vesalius published De humani corporis fabrica in 1543.
  14. - Woodall: <i>The Surgeon's mate</i>, 1639: title page. Woodall: The Surgeon's mate, 1639: title page. Title page to Woodall, John: The surgeons mate or military and domestique surgery, London : Printed by Rob. Nineteenth and early twentieth century operative atlases are heavily digitised and are literally instructional documents.
  15. - Anatomical chart, Cyclopaedia, 1728, volume 1, between pages 84 and 85. Anatomical atlases established the normal against which skeletal deformity was defined, and the great ones were as much publishing achievements as medical ones.
  16. - Osteographia, or the anatomy of the bones Fleuron N055711-38. Fleuron from book: Osteographia, or the anatomy of the bones. William Cheselden published Osteographia, an atlas of the human skeleton.
  17. - The crooked tree plate from Nicolas Andry, Orthopaedia, 1743. The plate of a crooked young tree tied to a straight stake, engraved by James Hulett for the 1743 English edition of Nicolas Andry's Orthopaedia. The image was later adopted as the emblem of orthopedic societies worldwide, including the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. It is an analogy about a gardener staking a sapling, not a picture of a device, and the version in modern society logos is a redrawn one rather than Andry's plate.
  18. - Orthopaedia: or, the Art of Correcting and Preventing Deformities in Children, title page, London, 1743. Title page of the first English edition of Nicolas Andry's Orthopaedia, printed. Millar in London in 1743, two years after the French L'orthopedie. The title page states the book's audience plainly: means as may easily be put in practice by parents themselves. Andry built the word orthopaedics from Greek orthos, straight, and paidion, child, and he was a physician who fought publicly against the surgeons of his day, so the word names a field of child-rearing rather than of surgery.
  19. - Orthopædia- or Fleuron T088365-6. Fleuron from book: Orthopædia: or, the art of correcting and preventing deformities in children: By such Means, as may easily be put in Practice by Parents themselves, and all such as are employed in Educating Children. Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard built the word orthopaedics from Greek orthos, straight, and paidion, child, in L'orthopedie of 1741.
  20. - Straightening the crooked trunk of a young tree, from Andry's Orthopaedia. A second impression of the crooked-tree plate from Andry's Orthopaedia of 1743. Andry built the word orthopaedics from Greek orthos, straight, and paidion, child, and addressed the book to parents rather than to surgeons. He was a physician who fought publicly against the surgeons of his day, which is a genuine irony given that the specialty carrying his coinage became a surgical one.
  21. - Nightingale-mortality. Example of polar area diagram by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). Florence Nightingale brought sanitation and statistics to military medicine in the Crimean War, including her polar area diagrams.
  22. - (Covers to) England and Her Soldiers.. Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com.This image 10563.001 is a part of image group 10563.000."Florence Nightingale worked closely with medical statistician William Farr to create a series of analytic arguments for better sanitation in the British Army.
  23. - Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East.. Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com.This image 10563.002 is a part of image group 10563.000.Colored."Florence Nightingale worked closely with medical statistician William Farr to create a series of analytic arguments for better sanitation in the British Army.
  24. - Diagram Representing the Mortality in the Hospitals.. Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com.This image 10563.004 is a part of image group 10563.000.Black and White."Florence Nightingale worked closely with medical statistician William Farr to create a series of analytic arguments for better sanitation in the British Army.
  25. - (Title page to) England and Her Soldiers.. Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com.This image 10563.003 is a part of image group 10563.000."Florence Nightingale worked closely with medical statistician William Farr to create a series of analytic arguments for better sanitation in the British Army.
  26. - Abulcassis Instruments01. Surgical instruments Abulcasis. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi, latinised Albucasis, of Cordoba, wrote the thirty-volume Kitab al-Tasrif whose final surgical volume was illustrated with drawings of instruments.
  27. - Fracture of the fibula bone: anterior and posterior views. Line block print after R.W. Smith, 1862.
  28. - Fractures of the radius and ulna bones, anterior and posterior views. Line block print after R.W. Smith, 1862.
  29. - Catalogue of Sharp and Smith - importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses, (1478. Catalogue of Sharp and Smith - importers, manufacturers, wholesale and retail dealers in surgical instruments, deformity apparatus, artificial limbs, artificial eyes, elastic stockings, trusses,. Crutches, calipers and walking supports are the everyday apparatus of orthopedic care and are far more numerous in the visual record than any operation.
  30. - Roentgen Strahlen 2 01. This is a scan of the historical document: Über eine neue Art von Strahlen (II. Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen observed the effect on 8 November 1895 at Wurzburg.
  31. - Tri-State medical journal and practitioner (1897). Plate from Tri-State medical journal and practitioner, 1897 (St. Louis : (s.n.)). Nineteenth and early twentieth century operative atlases are heavily digitised and are literally instructional documents.
  32. - The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent; designed for the use of practitioners and students (1903). Plate from The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery as an aid in diagnosis and as a therapeutic agent; designed for the use of practitioners and students, 1903 by Williams, Francis H. (Francis Henry) (New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., lt). Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen observed the effect on 8 November 1895 at Wurzburg.
  33. - Diseases of bones and joints (1914). Plate from Diseases of bones and joints, 1914 by Ely, Leonard Wheeler (New York : Surgery Publishing Company). Nineteenth and early twentieth century operative atlases are heavily digitised and are literally instructional documents.
  34. - Maryland medical journal (1918). Plate from Maryland medical journal, 1918 ((Baltimore, Md. Nineteenth and early twentieth century operative atlases are heavily digitised and are literally instructional documents.
  35. - Poster issued by the British Ministry of Health. Polio paralysis was responsible for more orthopedic cases than any other disease or condition of its era. For roughly the first two thirds of the twentieth century the visual and institutional identity of orthopedics in Europe and North America was paediatric, non-operative and long-stay.
  36. - April 12 1955: Polio Announcement. Footage of the announcement of 12 April 1955 that the Salk vaccine worked. United States cases fell from a peak near 58,000 in 1952 to about 5,600 by 1957.
  37. - Polio vaccine poster, 1958. Collection: Health Education Division Photographs Call number: Series 2136 System ID: 73641. Polio paralysis was responsible for more orthopedic cases than any other disease or condition of its era.
  38. - Polio poster. Poster issued by the British Ministry of Health for the vaccination against Polio. Polio paralysis was responsible for more orthopedic cases than any other disease or condition of its era.
  39. - Charta ex qva figvram parare convenit, illi qvae nervorvm seriem exprimit appendendam. Andreas Vesalius published De humani corporis fabrica in 1543.
  40. - The Canon of Medicine. The Persian manuscript copy of The Canon of Medicine in Museum and Mausoleum of Avicenna, Hamedan, Iran. Ibn Sina, latinised Avicenna, wrote the Canon of Medicine.
  41. - Medical X-Ray imaging FBL04 nevit. Nineteenth and early twentieth century operative atlases are heavily digitised and are literally instructional documents. They are admissible here as artefacts of their period.
  42. - History of Osteopathy. Lecture on the history of osteopathy. Osteopathy, chiropractic and bonesetting all developed alongside orthopedic surgery and competed with it for the same patients.
  43. - Polio Vaccination - Egypt. During a polio eradication campaign in Egypt, an FETP resident supervises the vaccination of children at a health office in Gharbia, in April 2014. Polio paralysis was responsible for more orthopedic cases than any other disease or condition of its era.
  44. - A. Pare, Les oeuvres; a clyster. Ambroise Pare revived the ligature of arteries in amputation in place of hot cautery. He did not invent it: Galen used it and al-Zahrawi described it, and it was largely lost in medieval Europe.
  45. - A. Pare, Les oeuvres; clyster. Ambroise Pare revived the ligature of arteries in amputation in place of hot cautery. He did not invent it: Galen used it and al-Zahrawi described it, and it was largely lost in medieval Europe.
  46. - Qanun (Fil-Tibb), Canon (of Medicine), vol. 5, by Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Iran or Iraq, dated 444 AH, 1052 AD, watercolor and ink on paper - Aga Khan Museum - Toronto, Canada. Exhibit in the Aga Khan Museum - Toronto, Canada. Ibn Sina, latinised Avicenna, wrote the Canon of Medicine.
  47. - Galen’s Zygoma: The Birth of Anatomical Terminology: A Confluence of Medicine, Language and History. Lecture on Galen's zygoma and the origins of anatomical terminology. Much of the language orthopedics still uses descends from Greek and Latin sources by way of Arabic transmission.
  48. - Histoire des déformations rachidiennes - BANCEL P, DUBOUSSET J (Paris). Jean Dubousset and P. Bancel at the Académie Nationale de Chirurgie in Paris on the history of spinal deformity. Dubousset gave his name, with Yves Cotrel, to the instrumentation system that succeeded the Harrington rod.
  49. - 13th-century Cikitsa-sara-sangraha, Vangasena, medical text, Sanskrit, palm leaf manuscript. Two leaves from the large 13th-century Sanskrit medical manuscript named Cikitsāsārasaṅgraha by Vaṅgasena. The Sushruta Samhita, circa 600 BCE, describes the management of fractures and dislocations, including a classification of fracture types.
  50. - The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Cincinnati Civil War Round Table on the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. The volumes were compiled from case records submitted by surgeons across the Union armies.
  51. - The Polio Epidemic - FDR & The March of Dimes - Medical History - Extra History. Extra History on the polio epidemic, Roosevelt and the March of Dimes. The March of Dimes funded the Salk vaccine trials through small public donations.
  52. - Avicenna, History of Public Health in Iran and Impacts on Modern Medicine. Georgetown lecture on Avicenna and the history of public health in Iran. Ibn Sina's Canon of Medicine was a standard European medical text for centuries after his death in 1037.
  53. - Maharshi Sushruta: The Father of Indian Medical Surgery by Aadesh Singh | UPSC Ancient History | IAS. On Sushruta and the Sushruta Samhita, dated around 600 BCE. It sets out classification of fracture types, bandaging and joint management, and predates or matches the Hippocratic Corpus of roughly 440 to 340 BCE.
  54. - A History of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. 1937.
  55. - The Visual Regime of Medicine in Late Colonial India. Wellcome Collection lecture on the visual regime of medicine in late colonial India. Medical photography and print in colonial settings recorded bodies on terms the subjects did not set.
  56. - The history of The Bone & Joint Journal, with Mr Frank Horan. Frank Horan on the history of The Bone and Joint Journal. The journal descends from the British volume of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery and is one of the specialty's oldest.
  57. - NLM History Lecture - Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections. National Library of Medicine lecture on Islamic medical manuscripts in the National Library of Israel. Illustrated Arabic and Persian medical manuscripts include instrument plates and anatomical figures.
  58. - World War I Centenary Forum: Stories from the Collections of the National Library of Medicine. National Library of Medicine forum on First World War material in its collections. The NLM holds a very large and largely public domain collection of medical print and photography.
  59. - From the Archives: "The Poster Child and National Ambassador Programs". March of Dimes on its poster child and national ambassador programmes. The programme used images of braced and paralysed children as its principal fundraising instrument, which is worth naming directly.
  60. - Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus; first textbook in the history of Surgery Anatomy. On the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, copied around 1600 BCE and thought to derive from an older text. It contains forty-eight cases of wounds and fractures ordered from the skull downward, and is described as the first comprehensive trauma treatise. It is named for the American dealer who bought it in Luxor in 1862, which obscures that it is an Egyptian document.
  61. - 5 things you (probably) won’t know about corsets with Bernadette Banner. Wellcome Collection talk with dress historian Bernadette Banner on corsets. The corset sits at the boundary between clothing and orthopedic appliance, and the Wellcome holds brass and steel corsets alongside spinal jackets in its collections.
  62. - Florence Nightingale – History Maker- Pioneering Medical Statistician. On Florence Nightingale as a pioneering medical statistician. Her polar area diagram made mortality data legible to people who could not read tables.
  63. - Medical Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. National Library of Medicine on the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. The multi-volume work is one of the most detailed surgical records ever compiled and it names and depicts patients who could not consent.
  64. - From the Archives: Vesalius' Epitome. Columbia University Department of Surgery on Vesalius' Epitome from its archives. Andreas Vesalius published De humani corporis fabrica in 1543, and the Epitome was its condensed companion.
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