Engravings of neurological interest
In the 19 th century books including medical books were commonly illustrated by engravings. To make a satisfactory engraving is a much more skilled and time consuming task that to take a photograph. I think because the artist and engraver had to summarise in comparatively simple ways the main points many of these engravings have high artistic merit. Gowers works for instance are illustrated by engravings and I have come across a number I admire to do with occupational cramps. Some earlier writers such as Borelli (1685) ‘de Motu Animalium’ used woodcuts and often these were very good. I also have some collections of clip art on my computer. These are mostly disappointing, perhaps ‘Naff’ is the correction description of some of them. Does anyone on the list know of a collection of clip art of engravings of medical, and particularly neurological subjects ? Nearly all will now be out of copyright. Geoffrey Walsh -- -- Geoffrey.Walsh@ed.ac.uk http://www.ed.ac.uk/~gwalsh Phone (0)131.664.3046 64, Liberton Drive, Edinburgh EH16 6NW UK