This photograph of leprosy affecting a young male subject comes from John Wood's book of poems titled, Endurance & Suffering. The book was reviewed by the Canadian Medical Association Journal—the print version of the journal has 65,000 subscribers and the on-line version gets over a million hits a month. To access the PDF file of the review, click on "Begin manual download" on the web page here »» An expanded version with more images and poems can be accessed directly here »»
Cataloged a paper written by Emily Dickinson's sometime physician, Dr. Dyer Ball Nelson Fish.
Cataloged Addinell Hewson's copy of a memorial of Dr. Andrew Nebinger. Written by John H. Grove.
Cataloged a paper on surgical intervention of a cavernous angioma disrupting the orbit, authored by Nephtali Brunschvig.
Paper titled "The photo-micrography of histological subjects" written by a remarkable woman, Dr. Y. May King, the first Chinese woman to receive a medical diploma.
Cataloged "Specimen of a hermaphrodite," by Fancourt Barnes.
Completed the cataloging of about two dozen photo-illustrated papers published in the Annals of gynaecology and pediatry. The hyperlink above brings up one of the more interesting of these cases, reported by Dr. James Percival Tuttle and titled, "A case of extra-uterine pregnancy, the foetus being delivered at four months, per rectum."
Cataloged a monograph by Dr. Moses Greeley Parker on photomicrography.
Continued reading, researching the first volume of the Annals of gynaecology and pediatry. Put up several more papers including this one by Dr. Frank Leslie Burt on the prolapsed uterus.
Cataloged Bernays' paper on extra-uterine pregnancy.
A paper on laparotomy illustrated with photographs of 16 trophy specimens. One hundred and ten laparotomies for the removal of the uterine appendages, by Walker Gill Wylie.
Cataloged a paper on lithopedion written by Dr. W. H. Fales. Could find no biographical information. He was living in Boston when the paper was submitted but the name "Willard" or "William H. Fales" crops up in the literature in association with the University of California Medical School in Los Angeles in the position of adjunct professor of obstetrics.
Cataloged another paper from the Annals of gynaecology and pediatry titled, "Multiple papillomatous deposits on peritonæum," written by Dr. F. L. Burt.
Added a paper on tubal pregnancy.
This being Día de los Muertos, it is appropriate to catalog another obscure death commemorative – of Dr. Alessandro Sella, a beloved Turin physician and statesman.
Cataloged this very obscure commemorative of a beloved Sicilian surgeon.
Began cataloging John Reisberg Wolfe's radical treatise on grafting the human eyelid titled, Clinical demonstrations on ophthalmic subjects. Below is his anatomical description of the eye as compared to a camera, extracted from his 1882 textbook, On diseases and injuries of the eye....etc. :
Added linked references including Bourneville's reports on the photography service at Bicêtre published in, Recherches cliniques et thérapeutiques sur l'épilepsie, l'hystérie et l'idiotie.
Put up the entire chapter on clinical medical photography, extracted from Legrand Du Saulle's book, La folie devant les tribunaux.
Began cataloging Augusto Tebaldi's monograph, Fisonomia ed espressione studiate nelle loro deviazioni, con una appendice sulla espressione del delirio nell' arte. Opera corredata di un atlante.
Began cataloging Dr. Giovanni Zoja's paper on the head of Antonio Scarpa titled, La testa di Scarpa.
Updated Labarthe, Nos médecins contemporains. A fine copy has just come to market, offered by the antiquarian bookseller Jean-Pierre Aubert.
Began cataloging Paolo Mantegazza.
Cataloged a paper titled, Sopra un metodo facilissimo di riproduzione fotografica delle sezioni istologische, by Arnaldo Trambusti. Theme of the paper is a short cut method for making photographic records of tissue samples prepared in the lab.
Cataloged a paper on bacterial disease titled, The Park River nuisance as affecting the sanitary condition of Hartford, by Arthur J. Wolff.
Cataloged a paper on cerebral inflammation by Dr. Joseph Edward Root titled, Arteritis of the brain; with a case.
Cataloged a brief titled, A new clothing case for the soldier, written by a military surgeon and veteran of the Indian Wars, William Thornton Parker.
Cataloged Klinische Beobachtungen zur Dystokie durch Beckenenge, by Franz Karl Ludwig Wilhelm von Winckel.
Completed cataloging of ..traitement des déviations rachidiennes par les corsets platrés.
Leaving Dickson and his book, The science and practice of medicine in relation to mind. Will return in the future, but picking up with research and cataloging Gustave Gevaert's doctoral thesis on using appliances to treat spine deformity.
Finished cataloging Gayet's Iconographie photographique appliquée à l'ophthalmologie. Cataloging of Dickson's The science and practice of medicine in relation to mind...etc. commences.
Began work on a paper by Charles-Jules-Alphonse Gayet.
Catalogued an important textbook on diseases of the ear titled, A manual of diseases of the ear, for the use of students and practitioners of medicine, written by Dr. Albert Henry Buck, the son of Gurdon Buck who was the first surgeons to learn and deploy the photographic arts.
Another paper published in the Transactions of the American Otological Society and illustrated by cheap photoengravings.
Here is an analytic on facial paralysis caused by catarrhal inflammation of the middle ear. Unfortunately, the wonderful photographs are served up as cheap halftones. Author is Dr. Erastus Eugene Holt.
Case of congenital deformity of the bladder reported by Dr. Alexander Johnston Stone.
This paper related a case of simple lupus, which had resisted treatment for twenty-two years, and now succumbed to apparently simple remedies. The disease occurred in a female, and commenced at the age of eight years: when first seen, in November last, it occupied almost the whole of the face. After describing the appearance the patient presented, the paper went on to state that the treatment mainly consisted in the local application of ointment of iodide of sulphur, with the internal use of, primarily, cod-liver oil, and subsequently gly^ cerine with iodide of iron. It was further remarked, that the preparations of iodine and sulphur, as well as the analogous compounds of iodine and mercury, did not receive the soma amount of attention, as local applications in the tubercular forms of skin disease, in this country as on the continent. The paper was illustrated by photographic portraits of the patient in the different stages of the cure; and it was remarked, what valuable results might be expected from the introduction of photography officially into our hospitals, especially as a means of instruction and reference, while the expense and labour would be merely trifling. British medical journal, Page 348, 1857.
Als Non plus ultra der Abolition aller Zwangsmittel mitsammt der Seclusion gilt die weibliche Abtheilung von Springflcld. Die Commissioners empfehlen den Besuch derselben angelegentlich. Dr. Diamond, dessen Vater Besitzer einer Privatanstalt und der selbst lange Jahre im Bethlem thätig war, ist der Superintendent. Er ist zugleich geschickter Dilettant in der Photographie und die Wände seiner Zimmer sind bedeckt mit gelungenen Portraits seiner Patienten aus verschiedenen Stadien ihrer Krankheit. Eine nützliche und wo möglich nachahmungswürdigre Sitte. Früher heftiger Gegner des neuen Princips ist er jetzt (nach einem bekannten Gesetze) der leidenschaftlichste aller Eiferer für dasselbe. Page 403 »», Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie, volume xiii, 1856.
THE SOIREE--On Wednesday evening, a soiree was held in the Town Hall. Nearly two hundred and fifty gentlemen were present, including a number of the clergy, magistrates, and principal residents of the town. During the evening, Mr. Stimpson performed on the celebrated organ of tho Institution. Refreshments were provided in tents placed under the gallery; and numerous articles of interest were exhibited. Surgical instruments were exhibited[......]The application of photography to medicine was illustrated by contributions, from Dr. Diamond, of the Surrey Asylum, of photographs of the insane; and from Dr. Sibson, illustrating the form of the body in health and disease. Three hours were spent most agreeably. Page 684 »», Association medical journal, August 9, 1856.
Case of catalepsy of extraordinary duration reported by Dr. Edward George Geoghegan. Illustrated by a woodburytype.
After a new system install, work resumes with this paper by Francois-Jules-Octave Guermonprez on head trauma in older children. Title of the paper is Dépression du crâne survenue pendant la seconde enfance, et suivie d'arrêt de développement des facultés psychiques.
Catalogued a second article by Dr. Charles Bell Taylor in the Practitioner – on division of the optic nerve.
Article on the treatment of hypertrichosis with sodium ethylate, written by Dr. Arthur Jamison.
Early skin graft for ectropion. Reported by Dr. Charles Bell Taylor of Notthingham.
Added the portrait of Auzias-Turenne found in his collected works on syphilization.
We have been shown very beautiful photographs of sections of the frontal bone, illustrating the development and the varying capacity of the sinuses. These illustrations are extremely interesting, as they afford actual, very carefully-collected data respecting the development and capacity of the sinuses, on which our knowledge was hitherto imperfect Mr. Willmott, anatomical modeller to St Mary's Hospital, to whose patient investigation and zeal we owe the sections and photographs, states that '' in some young male and female adults the sinuses are very largely formed, and appear to have been developed somewhat in proportion to the growth of the bones of the head; whereas with some at the same age it is very small and irregular, and in a few no sinuses at all exist above the supra-orbital processes." Hence it appears that great irregularity prevails in this respect, the proportion being one frontal bone without sinuses to six or eight presenting such cavities, in all the skulls of which Mr. Willmott has made sections. The photographed diagram also shows that the capacity of sinuses differs considerably, some being sufficiently large to hold one ounce and a half of fluid, the others hardly admitted one drachm. The knowledge of these facts may certainly be of service to the surgeon in wounds about the forehead, whether gun-shot or others. Nor must it be overlooked, that no correct idea of the shape of the brain in this situation can be formed, considering the existence of such irregularities as regards the capacity of the sinuses. Mr. Willmott's sections and illustrations will be found of great service to all those interested in anatomical science. Source: »»
Updated Friedrich Ahlfeld's monograph on congentinal anomalies of the fetal skull titled, Die Entstehung der Stirn- und Gesichtslagen. Photolithographs were printed by Max Gemoser who invented the term but not the process for "Lichtdruck."
Updated Leub on the stomach tube.
Began updating Ludwig Mayer.
Began cataloging Victor Babes and Nicolas Kalindero, their analysis of leprosy in Romania.
Vincenz Czerny's meloplasty transcribed from a lecture at the Heidleberg clinic where he was director. Titled, Ein Beitrag zur Wangenplastik mit gedoppeltem Halshautlappen.
—The truth is, it seems to us, that photography is too much used in medical illustration, quite apart from considerations of decency and of the rights of the patient. It is invaluable, no doubt, within a properly restricted sphere, but most of the conditions that writers wish to show pictorially can be brought out much more tellingly in a sketch, or even a diagram. The most humiliating thing of all about the rage for photographic illustrations, lies in the undeniable fact that many writers resort to them mainly to support their statements, to establish their veracity. In plain words, they say to themselves that their clinical histories are likely to rouse incredulity, and that hence they must fortify them with pictures made with the machine that "cannot lie.".—excerpt, N. Y. Medical Journal, 1894.
Indecency in Photography.—"Medicus," in the New York Medical Journal, doubts whether photographic illustrations of anatomical and surgical phenomena exhibited by the human body convey as clear and instructive ideas of the conditions worthy of attention as may be conveyed by outline illustrations and drawings. But he has no doubt whatever, and the profession generally will agree with him, that if photography is to be employed at all in depicting the human body and its organs, decency requires that, even in medical publications, the scope of the photograph should be confined to the parts in which the phenomenon noted occurs; that the rest of the body, being unnecessary to the demonstration, be left out of the field, or be suitably covered up.
Cataloged a popular health guide by George and Susan Everett.
Updated Cabot's paper, Cases of osteoclasis.
Cataloged the biography of a ship surgeon for the East India Co., Memoir of John Milne, M.D.
Wonderful photograph of a provincial Piedmontese doctor who rose to become the 10th prime minister of Italy. He poses with his stethoscope. Uno sguardo sul cuore umano, ovvero lezioni di esperienza ; Pensieri, by Giovanni Lanza.
Cataloged an exceptionally rare album of materia medica botanica by the Pennsylvania chemist and photographer, Charles L. Lochman.
Memoir of the first British homeopath.
Began cataloging a work on syphilitic bone disease by the Dublin surgeon John Hamilton, titled, Lectures on syphilitic osteitis and periostitis.
Completed, for now, the description for the Joseph Delves paper, On the application of photography to the representation of microscopic objects. The positives were made by Talbot's former assistant, Nicolaas Henneman.
Continued with the description for the Delves paper.
Added content and links to the Delves paper.
Morbid Specimen In Photography.—Mr. Bransby Francis, of Norwich, has forwarded to us a photographic engraving of an enlarged prostate, with the bladder in all respects healthy, except that it contains fourteen calculi, or rather three whole ones, one broken into two, one into three, and one into six pieces; much worn away since fractured; weight five ounces two drachms; age of patient eighty-one; standing of disease more than fifteen years. The representation seems to be accurate, and the various objects are well defined. Mr. Francis is entitled to commendation for the novel use he has thus given to photography.—excerpt, London Lancet, 1853.
Began cataloging a paper illustrated by the first photomicrographs published in a journal (1853).
Cataloged an important early textbook on microbiology titled, Le microbe et la maladie, by Émile Duclaux, later director of the Pasteur Institute.
A record of the Metropolitan Fair : in aid of the United States Sanitary Commission, held at New York, in April, 1864. With photographs, published by the United States Sanitary Commission.
Another biography of a physician, French.
Handbook of the diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases, by Arthur Van Harlingen. Six photographs showing progression of alopecia areata.
Cataloged a great quackery, The new cancer treatment, by Dennis Turnbull.
Cataloged one of the first photographically illustrated titles from the Netherlands, Het dierlijk magnetisme, written by Jacobus Christian van Dooremaal.
Another monograph by Horace Benge Dobell with photographic reproductions of his watercolor sketches.
A monograph on chronic heart disease titled, On affections of the heart and in its neighbourhood. Cases, aphorisms, and commentaries, by Horace Benge Dobell.
The latest Charles Wood catalog of nineteenth century photography is out with several choice medical and scientific works illustrated by photographs. Today's link goes to one of his treasures, Des fractures du crâne, by Cauvy de Agde.
Began cataloging a rare treatise on Blanche Dumas titled, Note sur un monstre humain femelle à trois membres pelviens. D'un genre et d'une famille tératologiques encore incertains, written by Dr. Étienne-François Maurice.
Cataloged one of Auguste Corlieu's many medical biographies on a minor provincial doctor who was loved by the village he served.
Updated Ermengem's treatise on cholera
The photograph for this medical biography is unverified. Éloge du professeur Lallemand, by Amédée Hippolyte Pierre Courty.
Catalogued Sir William MacCormac's paper titled, On amputation through the knee joint.
Catalogued a biographical memoir of Sir John Forbes written by Edmund Alexander Parkes, the founder of the science of modern hygiene.
Catalogued Woillez's biography of the physician, Pierre-Charles-Alexandre Louis.
The second Déclat monograph on carbolic acid.
Began cataloging the first of two Déclat monographs on the clinical applications of carbolic acid.
