History of Medical Illustration

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History of Medical Illustration Robert Herrlinger's 1970 graphic history of scientfic images from "Antiquity to A.D. 1600" contains many important reprints of early medical illustration.

One of the most imporant is seen here (left). The first printed medical illustrations appeared in Fasciculus Medicinea, by Johannes de Ketham, a 1491 work printed in Venice by the Gregorii brothers. First and—of a woman to boot—this marks the beginning of printed anatomies according to scholar L.H. Wells. Notice the labeling of the woman and fetus.