Thomas Rowlandson’s print, The anatomist, published by Thomas Tegg of Cheapside on 12 March 1811, is one of Rowlandson’s most recognizable caricatures with a medical theme. For the modern day non-historian, Rowlandson’s comic prints, particularly the more abundant social as opposed to political caricatures, are characteristically transparent and easily accessible to interpretation, no doubt con...

Style is a familiar category for the analysis of art. It is less so in the history of anatomical illustration. The great Renaissance and Baroque picture books of anatomy illustrated with stylish woodcuts and engravings, such as those by Charles Estienne, Andreas Vesalius and Govard Bidloo, showed figures in dramatic action in keeping with philosophical and theological ideas about human nature. ...

When an unknown sea creature was washed ashore on the Orkney Islands in September 1808, Edinburgh anatomist John Barclay declared that this first solid scientific evidence for existence of ‘great snake’. The testimony witnesses along with some its preserved body parts were examined by both Wernerian Natural History Society and surgeon Everard Home London. Contradicting Barclay's opinion, identi...

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) was first described within the medical literature by anatomist and physician Thomas Willis in 1685. Risk factors for RLS include advanced age, alcohol intake, smoking cigarettes, caffeine intake. Poorly defined feeling of weakness pain also are related to this syndrome. Sometimes, motor symptoms could be present several times during day; at other they'll totally abs...

Jean Falcon, an Aragon native, became a famous surgeon at the Faculty of Montpellier. He was a Royal physician, wealthy enough to live a luxurious life and treat influential patients. His lectures were legendary, and his works gave him fame among the surgeons' class. Of all his manuscripts stands the "Guidon", which became an anatomical surgeons' handbook, worthy of reference from the scientifi...

OBJECTIVE Conceptualization of the physical objects and spaces that constitute the human body at the macroscopic level of organization, specified as a machine-parseable ontology that, in its human-readable form, is comprehensible to both expert and novice users of anatomical information. DESIGN Conceived as an anatomical enhancement of the UMLS Semantic Network and Metathesaurus, the anatomic...

At the height of his scientific career, anatomist Nicolaus Steno published Elementorum myologiæ specimen (Florence, 1667), a book unlike any other anatomy until then. Rather than an book, it seemed more like mathematics, with propositions, lemmas and corollaries. is thought to have developed mathematical interests in Florence school Galileo. However, this article challenges interpretation argue...