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Ars medica : a collection of medical prints presented to the Philadelphia Museum of Art by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories : catalogue /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Other Authors: Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Philadelphia Museum of Art, ©1959.
Subjects:
Medicine and art.
Prints > Exhibitions.
Engraving and Engravings > catalogs.
Medicine in Art > catalogs.
Médecine et art.
Estampe > Expositions.
Prints.
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • From medicine man to doctor of medicine
  • Allegories of the healing arts
  • Great names
  • Physicains and the arts and sciences
  • Pharmacy
  • The practice of medicine
  • The practice of surgery
  • Hospitals in peace and war
  • Hygiene and preventive medicines
  • Medical teaching
  • Anatomy demonstrations
  • Charts and diagrams
  • The arist observes the sick
  • The artist looks at disease
  • Satire and caricature
  • Charlatans
  • The sleep of reason
  • The madhouse I
  • The madhouse II
  • The beginning and end of life
  • Emblems of mortality.