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Vesalius and the Invention of the Modern Body Conference, Saint Louis University

Vesalius and the Invention of the Modern Body Conference, Saint Louis University

Vesalius and the Invention of the Modern Body Conference, Saint Louis University

Vesalius and the Invention of the Modern Body Conference, Saint Louis University

Vesalius and the Invention of the Modern Body Conference, Saint Louis University

Vesalius and the Invention of the Modern Body Conference, Saint Louis University

In The English Dance of Death Rowlandson applies his morbid sense of humor to a narrative poem by William Combe. The Quack Doctor depicts a busy apothecary mixing medicine for a line of anxious patients, while a man with gout, perhaps a regular…

In 1778 Rowlandson produced a series of prints, The Comforts of Bath, about this popular English spa resort. Displayed here is a preliminary drawing for one of these prints, entitled The Pump Room, depicting a social center at the spa where the water…

George Henry Harlow (1787-1819) was highly regarded as a portrait painter who produced many portraits of famous actors and actresses, as well as this portrait of Thomas Rowlandson at age of 58, two years after Rowlandson first produced The Tour of…

First published in 1771, this epistolary novel by Thomas Smollett (1721-1771), MD, follows the travels of the household of Matthew Bramble, who suffering from gout, spends time taking the waters at Bath. Writing to his physician Dr. Lewis, Bramble…