Annals of medical history . t varieties of skeletons in thesebeautiful medieval manuals which wehope at some future time to study. Forthe present, it may suffice to describe apages photographed from a manualoi the borx canonicse printed at Paris in1501 by Pigouchet (Plates I-IV). Most In the plates herewith presented, it willstrike upon the sense of any one that themarginal figurations of death as a half-dissected corpse, as a figure covered withsyphilitic or leprous sores, or as a shrivelledHautskelett (Sudholfs Lemurengestalt) were,in all probability, conceived from someother viewpoint than
Annals of medical history . t varieties of skeletons in thesebeautiful medieval manuals which wehope at some future time to study. Forthe present, it may suffice to describe apages photographed from a manualoi the borx canonicse printed at Paris in1501 by Pigouchet (Plates I-IV). Most In the plates herewith presented, it willstrike upon the sense of any one that themarginal figurations of death as a half-dissected corpse, as a figure covered withsyphilitic or leprous sores, or as a shrivelledHautskelett (Sudholfs Lemurengestalt) were,in all probability, conceived from someother viewpoint than the purely artistic. In the shrivelled figure of Death subscribed Skeletal and Visceral Anatomy 229 le pape in the right-hand margin ofPlate I, the abdomen is opened, suggestingdissection. In the lower right-hand cornerof the center-piece is a leper, with Lazarus- covered with syphilitic sores, with a spade,threatening a newly-married wife (nouvellemarie), and Death jeering at a pregnantwoman (la feme grosse). At the bottom. rattle and wallet, a dog licking the soreson his left foot. The skeleton in the lowerright-hand corner of Plate II (le medecin),grins mockingly at a doctor who is uphold-ing a urine glass. At the top (le moyne),grinning Death shoulders a spade. Theright-hand marginal ornamentation of PlateIII shows an eviscerated Death arm inarm with a nun (la theologiene), Death of the page, a dead eviscerated king, coveredwith luetic sores, lies with his crown besidehim. In the center of Plate IV is a corpseastride a jester, the abdominal viscerabeing dissected out, with lines extendingfrom the heart, liver, stomach and otherviscera to legends in the margin indicatingthe planets influencing these separate parts,a decorative device plainly derived from 230 Annals of Medical History the old zodiacal diagrams for bloodlettingand purgation, in which an exposition ofplanetary influences was frequently com-bined with schemata of the viscera. Thatthese grotesque figurations shou
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