Sources
Each plate carries its own Chicago-style notes and references. This index opens the source trail plate by plate.
On the Sacred Disease
The falling sickness declared a malady of the brain, not a visitation of the divine.
Open Sources →The Four Humours
Blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile — the body read as a balance of fluids.
Open Sources →On the Usefulness of the Parts
Animal anatomy and beautiful purpose harden into law for fourteen centuries.
Open Sources →Physician to the Gladiators
Wounds of the arena become a window into the living body.
Open Sources →The Canon of Medicine
Ibn Sīnā's five books set the entire healing art in order.
Open Sources →Contagion & Quarantine
An early intuition that some sicknesses pass from hand to hand.
Open Sources →De Humani Corporis Fabrica
The body drawn from the body — and Galen, at last, found wanting.
Open Sources →The Theatre of Anatomy
Padua's tiered hall makes a public spectacle of dissection.
Open Sources →De Motu Cordis
The heart a pump, the blood a ring — measured, not merely imagined.
Open Sources →Of Valves and Vessels
Ligature proves the one-way road travelled by the veins.
Open Sources →An Inquiry into the Cow-Pox
A dairymaid's blemish becomes armour against the speckled monster.
Open Sources →The Boy James Phipps
A single inoculation that would one day empty the pest-houses.
Open Sources →A Cylinder of Paper
A rolled tube lets the ear descend, unhindered, into the chest.
Open Sources →The Sounds of the Lung
Râles, crackles and murmurs given their names for the first time.
Open Sources →A Day at the Ether Dome
“Gentlemen, this is no humbug” — the operation without the scream.
Open Sources →Chloroform & the Queen
The royal childbed lends respectability to the sweeter, more dangerous vapour.
Open Sources →The End of Heroic Speed
Anaesthesia ends the race against pain, and opens the dangerous interval before antisepsis.
Open Sources →The Broad Street Pump
A map of the dead traces the cholera back to a single well.
Open Sources →The Lady with the Lamp
Nightingale turns cleanliness on the ward into plain arithmetic.
Open Sources →The Rose Diagram
Death counted, coloured, and made impossible to ignore.
Open Sources →The Swan-Neck Flask
Broth left open to the air, yet sealed against the living dust.
Open Sources →Of Ferments and Disease
The notion that unseen creatures sour the milk — and the man.
Open Sources →On the Antiseptic Principle
Carbolic acid turns the gangrenous ward into a house of healing.
Open Sources →The Carbolic Spray
A carbolic fog pumped at the air over the wound; the spray Lister made famous, then disowned.
Open Sources →The Tubercle Bacillus
The white plague brought at last beneath the lens.
Open Sources →Koch's Postulates
Four rules to bind a single microbe to the malady it makes.
Open Sources →A New Kind of Ray
A ghostly hand of bone — the skeleton seen straight through the flesh.
Open Sources →The Shadow of the Ring
The ray that saw through the body learns to burn it, and medicine learns to weigh the shadow.
Open Sources →The Discovery of Insulin
A pancreatic extract calls the dying diabetic back from the coma.
Open Sources →The Boy in the Public Ward
A starving public-ward boy receives the second injection that turns the fatal chemistry back.
Open Sources →A Curious Contamination
A clear ring of dead bacteria about a stray blue-green spore.
Open Sources →The Oxford Concentrate
Florey and Chain turn a curiosity into a cure for a world at war.
Open Sources →Structure of Nucleic Acids
The shape of heredity, drawn before it was proved.
Open Sources →Photograph 51
Franklin's cross of shadows holds the secret in plain sight.
Open Sources →The First Transplant
A dead woman's heart beats on within the chest of a living man.
Open Sources →Eighteen Days
The borrowed heart holds; the man is lost to the very cure that guards it.
Open Sources →