Figures
1.1William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress, Plate 2: Surrounded by Artists and Professors, Engraving, 1735. Credit: Getty Images.
2.1Detail from John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis: = Man Transform’d: Or, the Artificiall Changling (London, 1653). Image published with permission of ProQuest Publishing. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission.
2.2Detail from Johannes Scultetus, The Chyrurgeons Store-House (London, 1674). Image published with permission of ProQuest Publishing. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission.
4.1A. Paré, ‘La maniere de traicter les plaies’. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY.
5.1Detail from ‘A Verger’s Dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian, 1495’ by Masterof Los Balbases. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY.
5.2Saints Cosmas and Damian, c. 1370–5, Master of the Rinuccini Chapel (Matteo di Pacino) (Italian, active 1350–75), tempera and gold leaf on panel. Credit: Bridgeman Images.
5.3‘The Resurrection or an Internal View of the Museum [of William Hunter] in Windmill Street, on the Last Day’, attributed to Thomas Rowlandson, 1782. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY.
6.1Descartes, ‘The Path of Burning Pain. Comme elle est incitee par les objets exterieurs a se mouvoir en plusiers manieres’. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY.
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