Gain access to your downloads today and start creating your own remarkable medical inspired artwork. When downloading your assets, you will also get access the Vault Editions Skulls and Anatomy sample pack completely free. This book is an essential resource for creatives and curious minds. These images can be used in art and design projects, or printed and framed to make stunning decorative artworks for your home and office. However, if you're interested in accessing a treasury of bizarre imagery that documents the amazing progression that lead to modern medicine as we know it, keep reading.Įach book comes with a unique download link providing instant access to high-resolution files of the hundreds of images featured. If you are not comfortable with surgery being performed on the human body, this may not be the book for you. This book contains highly graphic images. This offering from Vault Editions is a brilliantly curated resource that features a fascinating curated collection of 17th and 18th-century engravings, etchings and lithographs exploring dentistry, eye surgery, amputation, rhinoplasty, prosthetics, bandages and dressing, childbirth, surgical tools and much more. Get Surgery and Medicine: An Image Archive of Vintage Medical Images for Artists and Designers and access to hundreds of beautifully rendered vintage medial and surgical illustrations to use in graphic design projects, collages and fine art projects. This is the best reference material available for your own vintage medical inspired illustrations and designs. Below, clove illustration from Vintage Botanical Illustration Volume.2 These herbs either have antibacterial purposes (clove, lavender, camphor, storax, myrrh) or their potent and herbaceous aroma help disguise the strong, unpleasant smells associated with dead and dying people. The herbs typically put inside a plague doctor's mask were lavender, peppermint, camphor, juniper berry, ambergris, cloves, labdanum, myrrh, and storax. The herbs used in the plague doctor's mask were meant to counteract these smells and protect the doctor from becoming infected. This obsolete theory was rooted in the idea that bad smells from decaying bodies and other sources were toxic and could infect people with various illnesses, including the plague. Miasma was believed to be the principal cause of the plague. 1656, of a plague doctor of Marseilles (introduced as 'Dr Beaky of Rome'). Below, Paul Fürst, engraving (coloured), c. This garment is one of the earliest examples of what we now refer to as a hazmat suit. People thought germs could not easily penetrate these materials. The plague doctor's long robe was crafted from linen and goat skin, with a wax or oil sealing added for an extra layer of safety. Their distinctive wooden canes served multiple purposes - pointing out areas needing attention, examining patients from afar, and keeping people away to contain the contagion. The gloves, boots, and wide-brimmed hat also helped to protect the individual from coming into contact with anything that may have been harmful. The plague doctor's outfit was based on the idea that it could protect the individual from catching the disease. The plague doctors of the Middle Ages were a mysterious sight, draped in an ankle-length overcoat, a beaked mask, and a wide-brimmed hat. The long beak-like nose piece was fitted with aromatic substances and the eyeholes were covered with glass. The costume’s gown was made of morocco leather, underneath which was worn a skirt, breeches, and boots, all of leather and fitting into one another. The costume was described by Jean Jacques Manget (1652-1742) in his Traité de la peste (Treatise on the plague), published in Geneva in 1721. This watercolor painting depicts the costume worn by physicians attending plague patients in the 17th century. Learning more about their practices helps us appreciate how far medicine has come, and how brave these individuals were to try and assist those suffering at a time when the cause and treatment of the plague were much debated. Their job took them to the epicentre of plague outbreaks during one of Europe's darkest periods in history. Their backgrounds varied some candidates had genuinely trained as doctors, but others, like one ex-fruit seller, were a little more unusual. Clad in an unnerving bird-like beak mask and gloves, these mysterious men were known as Plague Doctors. In 16th and 17th century Europe, a figure encased in strange garments emerged from the shadows of plague-ridden cities.
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