If you fancy your very own piece of the often barbaric and macabre history of medicine, then a new collection of over a hundred thousand ancient images could be for you.
Illustration of human viscera by Paulo Mascagni. (Credit: Wellcome Images)
Wellcome Images, one of the world-renowned Wellcome Library’s major collections, has released thousands of pictures, paintings, etchings and engravings on a new website, freely available for high resolution download.
The collection includes early photography, advertisements and paintings from names as famous as Vincent Van Gogh and Michaelangelo.
The earliest item is a 3,000-year-old Egyptian prescription on papyrus and more recent items include a newly added series of photos of hysteric and epileptic patients at the famous Salpêtrière Hospital taken in the late 1800s...
Read the rest over at Forbes.
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