February 27, 2012

jtotheizzoe:

From the Wellcome Trust’s new collection The Art of Medicine: Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination, a visual history of medical discoveries from two millennia.

Images:

  1. “Organ man” c. 1420-1430, unknown
  2. Bloodletting Points c. ~1650-1700, Tibet
  3. The Health Giver, c. 1920 France
  4. Syphilis Strikes, 1940 USA

(via Salon.com, all images copyright The Wellcome Trust)

(via scientificillustration)

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