Medical conditions in works of artVictoria Salter
North Central Thames Foundation School, UK
Br J Hosp Med (Lond) 69:91-4. 2008
..This article reviews some paintings suggesting underlying medical diagnoses under specialty-based headings...
Medicine and the artistJan Dequeker
Age Ageing 37:4-5. 2008
Obesity in art: a brief overviewRosalind Woodhouse
Department of Endocrinology, Barts and The London, Queen Mary s School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, London, UK
Front Horm Res 36:271-86. 2008
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Relicts of dancing mania: the dancing procession of EchternachP Krack
Neurology Department, University of Kiel, Niemannsweg
Neurology 53:2169-72. 1999
..This view is supported by the religious motivation behind the present-day Dancing Procession in Echternach, a ritual with mixed pagan-Christian origins related to Saint Vitus' dance...
[Andalusian shelters and hospitals. From Granada over Córdoba to Seville ]Axel Hinrich Murken
Hist Hosp 24:211-24. 2004
Gin Lane: did Hogarth know about fetal alcohol syndrome?E L Abel
Department of Obstetrics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Alcohol Alcohol 36:131-4. 2001
..The birth of weak and sickly children, and the high infant mortality rates associated with this period, long preceded the 'gin epidemic' and were primarily due to disease, starvation, exposure, and deliberate infanticide...
[Melancholy in artistic diversity and expression]Peter Stiefelhagen
MMW Fortschr Med 148:64. 2006
The pipes of panDavid J Chalif
Department of Neurosurgery, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Neurosurgery 55:1437-40; discussion 1440. 2004
..The Pipes of Pan now hangs in the Musee Picasso in Paris...
A brief exploration of neurological art historyOtto Appenzeller
NMHEMC Research Foundation, Albuquerque, NM 87122 1424, USA
J Hist Neurosci 13:345-50. 2004
..We consider the art pieces examined here also pertinent to art historians, as they assess the role of art in documenting history...
[Edvard Munch's entoptic bird]Philippe Lanthony
Laboratoire de la vision des couleurs, Centre Hospitalier National d'Ophtalmologie des Quinze-Vingts, Paris
Rev Prat 57:807-9. 2007
Skin abnormalities in the National Portrait GalleryR M Strauss
Department of Dermatology, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK
J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol 18:566-8. 2004
..This exercise however, reflects a subjective interpretation of the different artists's perceptions of their models' physical appearances...
[The history of the flea in art and literature]R Roncalli Amici
American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists, USA
Parassitologia 46:15-8. 2004
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History of the spinal cord localizationSait Naderi
Departments of Neurosurgery, Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey
Neurosurg Focus 16:E15. 2004
..Perhaps the next century will provide the answers to today's questions about spinal cord localization...
Medicine in art. Looking at "The Doctor"Henry N Claman
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 4627 School of Medicine Building, 4200 East Ninth Avenue, B164, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med Soc 67:34-7. 2004
The enigma of painArveen Bajaj
Br Dent J 196:502-3. 2004
..Arveen Bajaj speaks to the exhibition's curator, Javier Moscoso, about the themes, ideas and insights behind the exhibition...
Lives of the artists: differences in longevity between old master sculptors and paintersPhillip Greenspan
University of Georgia, College of Pharmacy, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Age Ageing 37:102-4. 2008
[Human reproduction in fine arts]Akos Jakobovits
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Orv Hetil 149:173-84. 2008
Gunther von Hagens and Body Worlds part 2: The anatomist as priest and prophetCharleen M Moore
Department of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA
Anat Rec B New Anat 277:14-20. 2004
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Captive of art, not disease. Paul Klee and his illness, sclerodermaRichard M Silver
Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA
Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med Soc 71:16-24. 2008
Anxiety (Angst)James C Harris
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:15-6. 2004
[Forbidden anatomy]Per Holck
Avdeling for anatomi, Institutt for medisinske basalfag, Universitetet i Oslo, Postboks 1105 Blindern, 0317 Oslo
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 124:3242-4. 2004
..Two men, William Burke and William Hare, became particularly notorious because of their "business" with the celebrated anatomist Robert Knox in Edinburgh...
Botticelli and the Babinski signConcezio Di Rocco
Istituto di Neurochirurgia, , Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy
Childs Nerv Syst 22:1061-2. 2006
[History of Swedish general practice]Per G Swartling
Lakartidningen 103:1950-3. 2006
The art of hand surgeryPaul R Manske
J Hand Surg [Am] 31:881. 2006
Medical miracles and the longue duréeJacalyn Duffin
Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario K7 L 3N6, Canada
Hist Philos Life Sci 27:81-99. 2005
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[The sick person in art]Bettina Olshausen
, Baden-Baden
Kinderkrankenschwester 25:465-73. 2006
The figures in El Greco's paintings have signs of Marfan's syndromeJan Kwoczyński
Kardiol Pol 64:1214-20; discussion 1221-2. 2006
..In this article, the hypothesis that figures in El Greco paintings have signs od Marfan's syndrome, is presented...
More about FildesLoren A Rolak
Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med Soc 68:53-4. 2005
The auricle in the visual artsWolfgang Pirsig
ENT Department, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Facial Plast Surg 20:251-66. 2004
[Artistic representation of disease, injury and disability]Akos Jakobovits
Orv Hetil 147:2139-44. 2006
[A cultural history of tuberculosis]Mahito Fukuda
Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan
Kekkaku 79:655-8. 2004
..In the second stage consumption, TB was thought to be responsible for the patients' beauty and creativity. This kind of romanticization can be seen both in the West and East, not only in literature but also in paintings...
[Diprosopus triophthalmus. From ancient terracotta sculptures to spiral computer tomographic reconstruction]R Sokiranski
Abteilung fur Radiologie und Nuklearmedizin, Klinikum Traunstein
HNO 53:223-9. 2005
..Our modern spiral computer tomography confirms the ability of our ancestors to depict diprosopia triophthalmica in paintings and sculptures with a high level of natural precision...
Disease of distinctionStephan A Schwartz
The Rhine Research Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451, USA
Explore (NY) 2:515-9. 2006
..American research conducted in the 1960s found that corporate executives, just like their English gentry, or Roman senatorial predecessors, had higher urate concentrations than their blue-collar employees...
Mother and child care in artEmery Alan E H
Green College, Oxford
Clin Med 7:85. 2007
Charcot revisited: the case of Bruegel's choreaGenevieve Aubert
Department of Neurology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate 10, B 1200 Brussels, Belgium
Arch Neurol 62:155-61. 2005
..Beyond any specific diagnosis, Bruegel's work remains universal, giving a unique and compelling picture of human suffering and of the plight of devoted caregivers...
Fish bile and cautery: trachoma treatment in artHorton A Johnson
Three Lincoln Center #47C, New York, NY 10023-6566, USA
J R Soc Med 98:30-2. 2005
[Saint Lucia in pictures]J J Barbón García
Hospital San Agustín de Avilés, Asturias
Arch Soc Esp Oftalmol 78:689-92. 2003
Further early historical evidence of Down syndromeO Conor Ward
Am J Med Genet A 126:220. 2004
[Sacer ignis, quam pustulam vocant pastores: anthrax--cultural historical traces of a zoonosis]J Eitel
Clinica veterinaria alla Moesa, Grono
Schweiz Arch Tierheilkd 145:7-16. 2003
..This term will be analysed in terms of linguistic origin and the changes in meaning it acquired throughout the centuries...
Visible signs of illness from the 14th to the 20th century: systematic review of portraitsC Als
Chemical Laboratory, Inselspital, University of Berne, CH 3010 Berne, Switzerland
BMJ 325:1499. 2002
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[To picture pregnancy and birth--is it allowed?]Irja Bergström
Lakartidningen 99:3316-9. 2002
Michelangelo and medicineRoland M Strauss
Department of Dermatology, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK
J R Soc Med 95:514-5. 2002
["No onion without a fire". The onion hangs on in both the art and the medicine--neither its medical or symbolic power have been lost during the course of centuries]Stephan Rossner
Gastronomiska akademin, Stockholm
Lakartidningen 99:1091. 2002
[Medical reflections on the Cranach altar in the St. Wolfgang church at Schneeberg/Saxony]R Mohn
Hanau, Germany
Hautarzt 53:622-4. 2002
..For iconographical reasons and because of the very early time of its creation around 1530, the deliberate representation of such a diagnosis, at least for Schneeberg, seems doubtful...
Arthropathy in art and the history of pain management--through the centuries to cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitorsT Appelboom
Erasmus University Hospital, University of Brussels, 808 Route de Lennik, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium
Rheumatology (Oxford) 41:28-34. 2002
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The surgeon's artH David Crombie
Hartford Hospital and Connecticut Surgical Group PC, 85 Seymour St, Hartford, CT 06106, USA
Arch Surg 137:390-6. 2002
Great moments in pharmacy: development of the Robert Thom series depicting pharmacy's historyGeorge B Griffenhagen
American Institute of the History, American Pharmaceutical Association, Washington, DC, USA
J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash) 42:170-82. 2002
[Old European "ars moriendi" (the art of dying) as a challenge for our approach to death and dying]H Herkommer
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Praxis (Bern 1994) 90:2144-51. 2001
..Ars moriendi was cultivated as a means of consciously preparing for death. In modern times, constant thoughts of death are no longer considered as necessary for leading a responsible life...
[Pain--life's dreaded companion. Cultural history of algology and the most important achievements]P Wahrborg
Kardiologiska kliniken, Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset, Goteborg
Lakartidningen 98:1642-6. 2001
..Despite a number of important discoveries and a much improved knowledge in basic science pain is still the dreaded companion of mankind...
Ophthalmology and art: simulation of Monet's cataracts and Degas' retinal diseaseMichael F Marmor
Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5308, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 124:1764-9. 2006
[Depiction of pathological breasts in the fine arts]Akos Jakobovits
Orv Hetil 144:1499-502. 2003
Neurohistory and the arts. Was Kandinsky a synesthete?Amy Ione
Diatrope Institute, 2161 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704 1313, USA
J Hist Neurosci 12:223-6. 2003
The obsession of envy (Monomanie de l'envie)James C Harris
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:764. 2003
Physicians as paintersAvi Ohry
Department of Rehabilitation, Reuth Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Isr Med Assoc J 5:681-4. 2003
Otorhinolaryngological aspects of handicapped children in visual artsWolfgang Pirsig
Ulm University Hospital, Mozartstrasse 22/1, Ulm D-89075, Germany
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 67:S21-52. 2003
[Gustav Klimt, Danae and "the golden shower"]Jarl S Torgerson
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Lakartidningen 105:2503-5. 2008
["Transforming poetry into reality"--figures in the legends of antiquity in modern medicine]A Karenberg
, , Cologne
Dtsch Med Wochenschr 128:2698-706. 2003
[Lars Hertervig and Edvard Munch. Two Norwegian artists balancing between sanity and madness]Irja Bergström
Lakartidningen 100:1644-7. 2003
"Uncle Sam needs you" or does he? Intellectual disabilities and lessons from the "great wars"J David Smith
Department of Specialized Education Services, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC 27402, USA
Ment Retard 44:433-7. 2006
Re "Gout, an American Revolutionary War statesman, and the Tower of London"Christopher M Papa
Pharos Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Med Soc 71:49-50. 2008
Gustave Dore's OgreThomas A McLoughlin
J R Soc Med 99:546-7. 2006
Darwin's unsolved problem: the place of consciousness in an evolutionary worldC U M Smith
Vision Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
J Hist Neurosci 19:105-20. 2010
..They also provide an opportunity to emphasize Darwin's lifelong interest in the relationships between mind, brain, and behavior...
The cure of folly or The operation for the stone by Hieronymus Bosch (C. 1450-1516)Michael Salcman
Baltimore, Maryland
Neurosurgery 59:935-7. 2006
Mother and child care in artAlan E H Emery
Green College, Oxford
Clin Med 6:403. 2006
The thyroid gland in works of famous old anatomists and great artistsMile Ignjatovic
Surgical Clinic, Nikola Spasić, University Medical Center Zvezdara, Dimitrija Tucovića Street 161, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Langenbecks Arch Surg 395:973-85. 2010
..The aim of this work is to bring out the thyroid gland in works of famous old anatomists and great artists, without valorization of its precisions and exactitudes...
[Fragments and body unity: questions and artistic opinions of neoclassical and realist painters in France in the first half of the 19th century]Jean-Pierre Blay
Stadion (Koln) 28:155-71. 2002
Neuroradiology and art: a review and personal contributionSlobodan Marinkovic
Institute of Anatomy, University School of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia
Tohoku J Exp Med 222:297-302. 2010
..In conclusion, thanks to the esthetics of some radiological images and the valuable creations of certain artists, neuroradiology has become an important field of contemporary art...
["It is a gift given to me"]Benjamin Tobler
Krankenpfl Soins Infirm 99:51. 2006
[Empathetic doctor or hard-boiled professional--the physician in art]Mia Hemborg Kristiansson
Lunds universitet
Lakartidningen 103:3393-6. 2006
Alexandra Reinhardt 1960-2004. River and Red Butterfly -- psychiatry in picturesAlexandra Pitman
Br J Psychiatry 192:332. 2008
Who is Dürer's "Syphilitic Man"?Colin T Eisler
NewYork University Institute of Fine Arts, 1 East 78th Street, NewYork, NY 10075, USA
Perspect Biol Med 52:48-60. 2009
..The young Dürer had ample opportunity to study such mercenaries during his journeyman years in present-day Switzerland and Strasbourg, since most of them came from precisely the same impoverished territories...
The diagnosis of art: Caravaggio's jaundiced BacchusJeffrey K Aronson
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK
J R Soc Med 100:429-30. 2007
Anatomy, technology, art, and culture: toward a realistic perspective of the brainDaniel D Cavalcanti
Division of Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, St Joseph s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Neurosurg Focus 27:E2. 2009
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Medicine and the arts. Two allegories of love by Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano "Bronzino" and Bartels, et al. CommentaryPaolo Fusar-Poli
Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
Acad Med 82:1108-9. 2007
"The rainbow at the edge of the shadow of the egg"Polyxeni Potter
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1339-40. 2008
Mind on Canvas: anatomy, signs and neurosurgery in artF Geranmayeh
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, Department of Neurosurgery, Kings College Hospital, London, UK
Br J Neurosurg 22:1-12. 2008
..We aim to highlight the existence of neurosurgical themes within paintings and drawings from different eras...
[From alcohol to liquid ecstasy (GHB)--a survey of old and modern knockout agents. Part 1: historic and classic knockout agents]Harald Schütz
Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Universität Giessen
Arch Kriminol 228:89-95. 2011
..Diethyl ether and chloroform are among the classical knockout substances. Although they have meanwhile been replaced by modern sedatives and hypnotics, their use is still observed in isolated cases...
Thomas Beddoes and the German psychological traditionNeil Vickers
Department of English Language and Literature, King s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
Notes Rec R Soc Lond 63:311-21. 2009
..Conolly, J. C. Bucknill and H. Maudsley...
Heterosexual anal sexuality and anal sex behaviors: a reviewKimberly R McBride
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
J Sex Res 47:123-36. 2010
..This article reviews existing data on a range of heterosexual anal sex practices and provides conceptual and methodological recommendations for new research...
Oslerians and the Rolls Park portrait of William HarveyD J Canale
J Med Biogr 15:78. 2007
Arthritis in the Durer familyGeorge M Weisz
School of History and Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales
Wien Klin Wochenschr 119:553-6. 2007
..One such case is the arthritis identifiable in three out of four artists in the Durer family, visible in paintings or engravings of the early 16-th century...
Contemporary art and Hanna Segal's thinking on aestheticsAdela Abella
Int J Psychoanal 91:163-81. 2010
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A Rake's Progress: "bedlam"James C Harris
Arch Gen Psychiatry 60:338-9. 2003
Surgically repaired cleft lips depicted in paintings of the late Gothic period and the RenaissanceW Pirsig
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg 39:127-33. 2001
..It was therefore late Gothic and Renaissance artists who depicted the conspicuous signs of surgically treated patients with cleft lip more than 130 years before the surgeons...
[From the craftsman to the specialist physician. The professional rise of surgeons]Th Schlich
Departement of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Praxis (Bern 1994) 93:36-7. 2004
Hitchcock's "Vertigo": the collapse of a rescue fantasyE Berman
Department of Psychology, University of Haifa
Int J Psychoanal 78:975-96. 1997
..A defensive emphasis on the pathology of artists and their work may alienate us from art, and blind us to ways in which we could learn from it personally and professionally...
Representations of blindness in Picasso's Blue PeriodJames G Ravin
Section of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Ohio, 3000 Regency Court, Toledo, OH 43623, USA
Arch Ophthalmol 122:636-9. 2004
Portraits of artists: emergence of visual creativity in dementiaBruce L Miller
Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Arch Neurol 61:842-4. 2004
..Art in the context of dementia provides a unique window into the cognitive processes of various brain regions and an opportunity for rehabilitation...
History of spine surgery in the ancient and medieval worldsJames Tait Goodrich
Leo Davidoff Department of Neurological Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children s Hospital of Montefiore, Bronx, New York 10467, USA
Neurosurg Focus 16:E2. 2004
..For purposes of an overview and to highlight changing trends in spine surgery, he divides the paper into four eras of medicine: 1) Egyptian and Babylonian; 2) Greek and early Byzantine; 3) Arabic; and 4) medieval...
Paul Klee in the Wizard's KitchenMarta Schneider Brody
1734 Fillmore Street, 6, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Psychoanal Rev 91:395-422. 2004
[August Natterer exhibit in Heidelberg. Displays of the world court]Klaus Brath
MMW Fortschr Med 146:61. 2004
Pity, modernity and the spectacle of sufferingAlan Radley
Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicester, UK
J Palliat Care 20:179-84. 2004
..From this perspective, dignity is shown to be part of a collective response to a medicalized world in which ideas about illness and health are also being transformed...
[Gerard de Lairesse. Born ugly, with hereditary lues?]Nils Brage Nordlander
Lakartidningen 101:4133. 2004
[Cosmetic surgery, certificates and the 'head-baker' of Eeclo]J N Keeman
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 147:2513-22. 2003
..One only has to open a modern newspaper to see that this phenomenon has not died out...
[Posters reflect also history of medicine]Kristina Räf
Lakartidningen 101:4035. 2004
[The still frustrating mysterious gallstone. A century of gallstone disease in Lakartidningen]Jon Ahlberg
Lakartidningen 101:4238-41. 2004
[Medical figures in the opera]Reijo Norio
Duodecim 119:2242-52. 2003
Signs of love, not a love potionJeff Aronson
University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE
BMJ 327:1471-2. 2003
Down syndrome before Down: a retrospectJ M Berg
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Med Genet 102:205-11. 2001
..In the interests of historical authenticity readers are invited to point out perceived errors or omissions in this presentation...
[Not Available]D Laurenza
Universita di Siena
Nuncius 13:3-37. 1998
..Leonardo appears to be influenced by a scholastic tradition of biology represented by authors such as Albertus Magnus and the fifteenth-century Bolognese doctor Hieronymo Manfredi...
Museums on paper in Emilia-Romagna from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries: from Aldrovandi to Count SanvitaleG Olmi
Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche, , Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna, Italy
Arch Nat Hist 28:157-78. 2001
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