Index of Medieval Medical Images - from UCLA

From Cradle to Grave: an art installation by David Critchley, Susie Freeman and Liz Lee

COMPASS entry

Woman's Hour, 2003

On the cover of the BMJ, 333(7557)

"From cradle to grave": NHS History

Turning the Pages at the Wellcome Trust includes the Wellcome Apocalypse (c.1420-30), Nujum al-'Ulum (Stars of Sciences) and On Cutaneous Diseases by Robert Willan (London, 1808).

Meanwhile, the National Library of Medicine's Turning the Pages Online includes Conrad Gesner’s Historiae Animalium (Studies on Animals), Ambroise Paré’s Oeuvres, Andreas Vesalius's De Humani Corporis Fabrica and Johannes de Ketham's Fasiculo de Medicina

"At Padua Evelyn acquired the preparations of human arteries, veins and nervesdissected out in the anatomy theatre by [Johann] Vesling's assistant, the surgeon Giovanni Leoni. Dried and mounted on four panels-the "tables" of Evelyn's description-these preparations were shipped to England by a circuitous route, and reunited with Evelyn in 1649. He records that he showed them to "Moulins the greate Chirurgion" in April of that year.3 Finally in October 1667 Evelyn presented the tables to the Royal Society, having some years previously declined Dr Charles Scarburgh's invitation to donate them to the College of Physicians.

... Evelyn's tables were presumably displayed there, until virtually the entirecontents of the repository were made over to the British Museum in June 1781 ... Held in store by the British Museum for a number of years, the tables were eventually presented to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1809, together with a miscellaneous collection of mainly medical and anatomical objects deemed "unfit to be preserved in the Museum". Here they survived the Blitz and the subsequent rustication of the Hunterian Museum collections, and are today displayed in the Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields."--'John Evelyn's Tables of Veins and Arteries: a rediscovered letter' by Richard K. Aspin. Medical History, 1995, 39: 493-499.

"The architecture of the human form." Who knew we were so beautiful under our skin? The National Museum of Health & Medicine, clearly.

Since You Were Born is an interesting interactive from the Women's Health Project. Enter your birth date to find out how many days you have been alive and read key landmarks and statistics in (American) women's health since the day you were born. The website also provices interactives in the areas of risk, detection, prevention and control.

Radio 4's This Morning drew attention to a study that has applied automated textual analysis to three of Iris Murdoch's novels, including her last, and found interesting evidence of the presence and sequence of decline during her well-known development of Alzheimer's Disease.

~ This Morning interviw with the study's lead scientist and with John Baylis, Murdoch's widower (Realplayer file).

~ Article on the study in Nature.

~ Abstract of the study's report in Brain, with link to full-text for subscribers (and appropriate Athens users).

The book that launched the science of anatomy,De Humani Corporus Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius (1543), is one of the books included in the British Library's Turning the Pages Project, the online part of which is launched today.