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Tag Archives: Medicine
1799: Nine Family Heads
In the late 18th century, a physician from northern Africa named Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim assembled this book of practices for dealing with physical, mental, and spiritual ailments. It also includes sections on secret alphabets, divination by sand, magic, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Africa, Art, Books, Demons, Magic, Medicine, Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim
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1936: Then It Will Be Over
Here we are, alone again. It’s all so slow, so heavy, so sad … I’ll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They’ve talked. They haven’t said much. They’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 2000's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Adam Stennett, Animals, Art, Books, Death, France, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mammals, Medicine, Mice, Novels, Painting, USA, Writing
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1912: Little Demons
Richard Tennant Cooper: An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; symbolising the effect of chloroform on the human body (1912); from a series of medically-themed paintings commissioned in 1912 by … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Demons, Medicine, Painting, Richard Tennant Cooper, USA
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1920: Drag
Drag ball in the USSR, 1920’s From a review of Dan Healey’s Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: Famously, the Russian Revolution brought the decriminalization of homosexuality in an act both nearly unique in Europe and astonishingly advanced in a country … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920's, 20th Century, Books, Dan Healey, Joseph Stalin, LGBT, Marriage, Medicine, Psychology, Revolution, Socialism & Communism, Soviet Union
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2009: Prescription
Margaret Owen: Daily Painting #214 (2009) (source)
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Tagged 2000's, 21st Century, Art, Margaret Owen, Medicine, Mental Health, Painting, USA, Women
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1920: Acts of Mercy
Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy (1916–20); it seems the first two paintings are referred to as The Orphans, while the second two are referred to as The Doctor.
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Tagged 1910's, 1920's, 20th Century, Art, Frederick Cayley Robinson, Great Britain, Medicine, Painting, WWI
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1862: Traveling Companions
Augustus Leopold Egg: The Travelling Companions (1862) The city in the background of this painting is Menton, on the Côte d’Azur, which had become a popular destination for sufferers of tuberculosis following the 1861 publication of Dr. James Henry Bennet’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 1870's, 19th Century, Alice, Art, Augustus Leopold Egg, Books, France, Great Britain, James Henry Bennet, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Medicine, Painting, Trains, Tuberculosis, Women
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