Category Archives: Medicine

William Hawes 1736-1808

English physician and philanthropist, founder of the Royal Humane Society. As well as his work to spread the practice of resuscitation, he was concerned to relieve poverty in east London.
Artist: Bertonnier
Date:
Size 12 x 21 cms
Price £28.00

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Claude-Nicolas Le Cat 1700 – 1768

Famous French surgeon and urologist of the 18th century
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Benoit Louis Henriquez, After Jean-Bernard Restout (1732 – 1796)
Date:1771
Size 18 x 24 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2107

Jan Astruc 1684-1766

French professor of medicine who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Monnct
Date:
Size 17 x 26 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2100

Galen of Pergamon, Greek physician

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus, often Anglicized as Galen and better known as Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Date:
Size 15 x 20 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2477

Antoine Petit and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets French physicians

Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets was a French physician. Born in the French village of Dricourt in 1755, Corvisart translated Leopold von Auenbrugg’s Inventum Novum from Latin into French. Corvisart was especially fond of Auenbrugg’s use of chest percussion as a diagnostic tool, and began to perfect the technique.

Antoine Petit was a French physician, master of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and Félix Vicq d’Azyr.

Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2326