Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1501

ROBERT CARSWELL (1793-1857) Pathological anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman 1838 [218] pp., 48 col. plates. 36.3 cm.

This striking work is rightly regarded as one of the finest pathological atlases ever produced. It is rivaled for beauty and accuracy only by Cruveilhier's Anatomie pathologique du corps humain (see No. 1479). The drawings are taken from a set of 2,000 watercolor paintings of diseased structures which remain at University College where Carswell was professor of anatomy. Osler (see No. 2119 ff.) said of the work: "These illustrations have, for artistic merit and for fidelity, never been surpassed, while the matter represents the highest point which the science of morbid anatomy had reached before the introduction of the microscope" (Osler 2250).

See Related Record(s): 1479 2119

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2291; Osler 2250; Wellcome II, p. 306

Gift of John Martin, M.D.