RCP museumさんのイラストまとめ

In this only known image of physician John Burges (1745-1807) he walks down Warwick Lane, experiencing a movement disorder. Burges avidly collected materia medica (pharmacology artefacts) and served as censor for the @rcphysicians six times.
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Mayerne’s ‘Treatise of the gout’ (1676) however contains a surprising & ghoulish remedy for arthritis: a powder containing human bone.

Mayerne's ‘arthretick powder’ was made from plants, minerals & ‘the rasepings of a humain Skull unburyed’.

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#OnlineArtExchange on fashion you say?

We can't go wrong with Messenger Monsey's **fabulous** pink velvet suit, painted by Mary and Thomas Black. https://t.co/DAUf9ovQKn

Unfortunately Monsey hated the picture and said he looked like 'a hog in armour'. We don't agree!

Looking in our prints collection it seems dogs were witness to key RCP events & the dodgier types of physicians practice.
From witnessing the siege of our Warwick Lane home by medical militants in 1767 to featuring in satirical cartoons about quack doctors!
#InternationalDogDay

#OTD 1825 5 princes, 5 dukes & politicians from both sides were in attendance at the opening of @RCPLondon’s fourth home at Pall Mall East. Designed by Robert Smirke, its windows overlooked what would later become Trafalgar Square.

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Alfred Swaine Taylor, #ForensicMedicine expert & real-life #SherlockHolmes came to forensics as a jr doc in the #JulyRevolution and his #ArchiveCollection includes tests for bodily fluids, notes on poisons, witness statements, even fan letters! #Archive30
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#17thcentury #physician Edward Tyson was hot on #ComparativeAnatomy. This book of his notes and drawings, containing human and animal life in all its splendour, is a definite contender for #FavouriteItem. #Archive30 #histmed

Francis Sibson created extraordinary #autopsy drawings. For a few we can piece together their #UntoldStories. Mary Ann Gathercole died of a lung condition aged 34. Her husband Charles managed to keep their four kids out of the workhouse and keep the family together #Archive30

@OxonMuseum We *love* this pink velvet outfit!

The sitter (the marvellously named physician Messenger Monsey) was less keen. He complained to the artists Thomas and Mary Black that he looked 'like a Hog in armour'. #MuseumSnap

Surrounded by nature -
If you’re a #naturelover like Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist and physician, you may choose to be flanked by allegorical women in sea urchin, shell and tulip headdresses. Seedpods scatter across the bottom of the picture.