A GROUP OF BOOKS DEALING WITH THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN ENGLAND. 305 330 334 348 JOHN E. LANE 367 WILLIAM ABBATT. 381 384 391 392 EDITORIAL NOTE. 393 228 HISTORICAL NOTES A NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF VARIOLATION 394 THE LEGAL CONTROL OF THE SALE OF NOSTRUMS AND POISONS IN FRANCE 396 BOOK REVIEWS NIAS. DR. JOHN Radcliffe, A SKETCH OF HIS Life, with an ACCOUNT OF HIS 400 ROCKWELL. RAMBLING RECOLLECTIONS, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY 400 BOUTAREL. LA MÉDECINE DANS NOTRE THÉÂTRE COMIQUE, depuis ses ORIGINES 402 ROBINSON. THE DON QUIXOTE OF PSYCHIATRY 403 Original articles are published only with the understanding that they are contributed exclusively to the ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY. Manuscripts offered for publication, books for review, and all correspondence relating to the editorial management should be addressed to the Editor, Dr. Francis R. Packard, 302 South 19th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Communications regarding subscriptions, reprints, and all matters regarding the business management of the ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY should be addressed to the Publisher, Paul B. Hoeber, 67-69-71 East 59th Street, New York City. The ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY is published quarterly, the four issues comprising one volume. The subscription price is $8.00 per year. Single numbers $2.50. Entered as second class matter, June 2, 1917, at the Post Office, New York, New York, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1920, by Paul B. Hoeber. FIELDING H. GARRISON, M.D. & EDWARD C. STREETER, M.D. HE earliest known hand drawings in manuscript representing details of human anatomy, from the twelfth century down to the time of Leonardo da Vinci, are of the most rudimentary and diagrammatic character and, for several centuries, reveal nothing but servile adherence to tradition. Before the advent of Leonardo, the finest figurations of anatomical structure were byproducts of the advancement of the plastic and graphic arts. The question, "Did anatomy do anything for art?" has been conclusively answered by the late Dr. Robert Fletcher, in two essays of unrivalled scholarship, viz., "Human Proportion in Art and Anthropometry," (1883) and "Anatomy and Art" (1895). In Fletcher's view, the concept "artistic anatomy" should be replaced by "artistic morphology," its true content being physiology and external pathology, rather than the science of musculature. Our problem is: Did art in the sense of sculpture and painting, do anything for anatomy? What such processes as freehand drawing and engraving did for anatomy has already been exhaustively considered by Choulant himself. Detailed investigation of this subject is of recent date. It has two aspects: (1) anatomical illustration without (didactic) intention; (2) anatomical illustration with intention. Most artistic productions bearing upon our subject fall into the former class. From prehistoric time onward, early man seems to have concerned himself with delineation of the surface anatomy of the human body, particularly during the glacial periods, when increased cold confined him 1 Supplementary section to Dr. Mortimer Frank's translation of Ludwig Choulant's History of Anatomical Illustration (University of Chicago Press). By permission of the publishers. Read at a meeting at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Historical Section), November 13, 1919. |