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Calots spinal surgery, 19th century

Calot's spinal surgery, 19th-century artwork. This operation is being carried out by the French surgeon Jean-Francois Calot (1861-1944) on a condition known as Pott's disease. This curvature of the spine is also known as tuberculous spondylitis, and is caused by tuberculosis (TB). Calot's technique was described in 1896 in a paper he read to the Academy of Medicine in Paris, and the operation is named after him. An orthopaedic institute he founded is also now named after him. Artwork from the 19th volume (first period of 1897) of the French popular science weekly La Science Illustree

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Ms 1335 f.219 Dissection of the body of Alexander the Great

XIR347305 Ms 1335 f.219 Dissection of the body of Alexander the Great, from Vie d'Alexandre le Grand (vellum) by French School, (15th century); Bibliotheque Municipale, Reims, France; (add.info.: from the French edition of the biography of Alexandre le Grand (356-323 BC) by Quintus Curtius Rufus (c. 42 AD); translation by Vasque de Lucene, Portuguese humanist scholar at the Burgundian court; commissioned by Charles the Bold (1433-77) c. 1468 and produced as lavishly decorated manuscript; Vasco de Lucena; Charles le Temeraire;); French, out of copyright

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Hercules, illustration from, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Librorum Epitome, Basel

1764424 Hercules, illustration from, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Librorum Epitome, Basel, 1543 (vellum) by Vesalius, Andreas (1514-64); Glasgow University Library, Scotland; (add.info.: Andreas Vesalius (31 December 1514-October 1564) was an anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body). Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He was born in Brussels, which though now part of Belgium, was then part of the Habsburg Netherlands. He was professor at the University of Padua and later became Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V.); A© University of Glasgow Library ; Belgian, out of copyright

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