Biomedical Ephemera, or: A Frog for Your Boils
A blog for all biological and medical ephemera, from the age of Abraham through the era of medical quackery and cure-all nostrums. Sometimes featuring illustrations of diseases and conditions of the times, sometimes fascinating ephemeral medical equipment, and sometimes clippings and information about the theories themselves.
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General Spine (historically):

Jacopo Berengario da Capri, 1523
Mansur ibn Ilyas, 1390

Bartholomeo Eustachi, 1500s (published 1783)

Johann Adam Kulmus, 1774 [Tokyo]

Shinnin Kawaguchi, 1772

Carlo Ruini, 1618 [horse spine]

William Cheselden, 1733

Adriaan van Spiegel and Giulio Casseri, 1626

Andreas Vesalius, 1555

Bernardino Genga, 1691
Posterior Spine (accurately):
Surprisingly, classic Gray's Anatomy books don't actually have the full vertebral column in one illustration. I didn't believe it when I couldn't find the plate online and flipped through my own copy from 1980. Nope, no full spine. So here are some others.

Thoracic spine by Gray, 1918

Siebart, 1910

Spondylotherapy. Albert Adams, 1910.
Pearson Scott Foreman publishing company, donated to WikiMedia Commons

Overall spine, still under copyright protection.

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