Physicians' Galleryさんのイラストまとめ

On International Day of the Midwife here is a handy guide - James Wolveridge's C17th midwifery handbook, written to 'inform midwives in their office' #IDM2019

Maria Sibylla Merian’s early 18thc natural history illustrations, she was a major contributor to #entomology – particularly with her research on the metamorphosis of butterflies

Spotlight on #iwd2019 - Elizabeth Blackwell was a talented 18thc botanical artist who had a difficult life and an even more difficult husband, who she supported from debtors prison to accusations of high treason. Discover more: https://t.co/DegLmnANpf

Mark Catesby's early 18thc ‘Natural History’, credited with being the first fully-illustrated study of North American #botany and #zoology Catesby rejected ‘artistic’ techniques believing they compromised truth, using instead what he called ‘a Flat tho’ exact manner’

Born #OTD 1774 in #Edinburgh, Scottish surgeon, artist and neurologist Charles Bell. In the early 19thc he produced the most influential anatomy books in Britain, you can read our digitised Bell texts online now: https://t.co/RuXeIE2OE6

Christian Egenolff’s 17thc herbal. Egenolff was a publisher, not a botanical writer, and pirated many of his works from other authors. It was written that there were none who had "more of the crassest errors than those published by Egenolff". #NationalGardeningWeek

Illustrations of Ebenezer Sibly, an 18thc physician, astrologer and occultist. Sibly was famed for his prediction of American independence, although he only published this 9 years after the event. Always a good trick to predict something after it has happened (a la #DerrenBrown)

Sir Robert Sibbald, Edinburgh university’s first Professor of Medicine, co-founder of @TheBotanics, personal physician to the king, Scottish Geographer Royal and founder of @RCPEdin (and one impressively busy man) was born #otd 1641

William Buchan author of ‘Domestic Medicine’ died #OTD in 1805. His book was a guide for the lay public to treat themselves at home. Although it did include the tip to avoid bathing, because human perspiration inhibited germs and gave you a ‘healthy glow’ https://t.co/6EXaJz1vDO

Fascinating blog post from @monaob1 on tea, coffee and gender anxiety in the 18thc, part-based on her research in our collections https://t.co/OF7CYvmRkW