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Happy weekend!
Left: The Rake at Oxford, or A Consultation of Physicians (sketch) which could be an abandoned first thought for the opening scene of A Rake’s Progress.
Right: The official plate 1 of A Rake’s Progress by #williamhogarth
#18thcentury #saturday
Cartographer, #historian, and #physician Wolfgang Lazius made a small mistake in depicting the crest of #Hungary on his great #map in 1552... #earlymodern #cartography #YouHadOneJob
#MayFlowers: Tree Peonies (Paeonia × suffruticosa). "Paeonia" comes from "Paeon", the Greek name for the physician of the gods who used a peony concoction to heal Pluto. Favourite Flowers of the Garden & Greenhouse, V1 (1896) via @mobotgarden: https://t.co/9g3mpBswWa
Colenius Kan Dorsii
Physician assisting the city watch of the Karnathian capital in their search for the serial murderer known as 'the bloody circle'
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
Visit Carnegie Mellon University now through June 29, 2018 for an exhibit of medicinal plants in watercolor by the European physician and naturalist Charles Dorat (?1806–ca.1870). https://t.co/7YaRiutyDS
The Nocturnist is the overnight attending physician in a hospital, and the Dx case this one cracked made my hair stand up.
@NocturnePodcast
https://t.co/RkggN4fAC8
Our @rhslibraries collections contain some really special works,including those of Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758),Scottish botanical illustrator and author,best known for"A Curious Herbal"(1739) -a reference work on medicinal plants for physicians and apothecaries. #IWD2018
Today's Find: Michael Servetus was a Spanish physician-author-theologian who was first European to correctly describe pulmonary circulation https://t.co/N4rIznxXRL He was burned at the stake for heresy 27 October 1553
Sananda is the Commander-in-Chief of the Ashtar Galactic Command and in leads the physicians and scientists. He's one of the seven Kumaras and brother of Sanat Kumara. #ashtar #aliens #ufos #extraterrestrials #spacehips #sciencefiction #anime #comicbooks #manga #characterdesign
Dr. Bruce Banner-physician, scientist, looking to find a way to control the raging monster that dwells within him The Incredible #hulk ! Here’s a piece of fan art painted in Adobe Illustrator on the iPad Pro 🎨
I kept forgetting to post these oop-
A peek into Diana's future~ She wants to be a physician, and I'm sure she'll achieve that dream! Also would adopt a daughter with Ama 💖
Daily #Sketch - Day #15.136
This is an illustration of #ElizabethBlackwell,
the 1st woman physician to receive a medical degree in the US.
Bottom portion features the symbol of healing and medicine: Bowl of #Hygieia, mixed w/ #Ouroboros, rod of #Asclepius, & #Caduceus.
RT @ArtDungeon: James Tilly Matthew's "air-loom," early 19th century. Courtesy Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. #art #drawing #painting #collage https://t.co/LM4FDQ4F3r : James Tilly Matthew's "air-loom," early 19th century. Courtesy… https://t.co/1wiLeJS2x5
Royal Worcester is one of the oldest established ceramic firms still in existence today. Established in 1751 by Dr John Wall and William Davies (a physician and an apothecary respectively) who had pioneered a new technique for producing porcelain.
https://t.co/VQlgCEZF2h
Huang Ya Dong was a celebrity in England in the 1770s; he is known to have advised Josiah Wedgewood about the production of Chinese porcelain, & explained the principles of acupuncture to physician Andrew Duncan. This portrait of him was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds
18 Dec 1627: John Lambe #astrologer examined by the College of Physicians #otd & found to be ignorant of the language and practice of #medicine. In June 1628 Lambe was stoned & killed by a #London mob as a reputed sorcerer.