. Annals of medical history. ookup his anatomical studies which resultedin his famous writings on the heart andblood vessels, as well as those relating totlie structure of the car. Charles Greene Cumston. 86 Historical NotesTHE DEACON OF ROUS 87 The accompanying cut entitled TheDeacon of Rous (Den Deken Rouse) isby Peter Brueghel, the Elder, a disting-uished engraver and painter of represents the interior of a doctors ofFicewhere operations for removing stonesfrom the head are going on. In the six-teenth century and later, a person whowas a little queer was said to have stonesin hi
. Annals of medical history. ookup his anatomical studies which resultedin his famous writings on the heart andblood vessels, as well as those relating totlie structure of the car. Charles Greene Cumston. 86 Historical NotesTHE DEACON OF ROUS 87 The accompanying cut entitled TheDeacon of Rous (Den Deken Rouse) isby Peter Brueghel, the Elder, a disting-uished engraver and painter of represents the interior of a doctors ofFicewhere operations for removing stonesfrom the head are going on. In the six-teenth century and later, a person whowas a little queer was said to have stonesin his head just as \vc saj he is nutty. somewhat and arc apparently not in asgood condition as the one represented engraving now in Amsterdam wasreproduced by Dr. Henry Meigs in thelionograpbif clc la Saltpetriere, 1895. Apainting of the same scene was reproducedby Meigs in the same journal in 1899. gives an interesting account of thepierres de tete endemic of those early Leyden copy has the \\ords Den. The Deacon of Rous (Den Deken Rouse). Probably pains and headaches were attri-buted to the same cause. At any rate,pierres de tete opened up a fair field for thecharlatans, who apparently made incisionsin the scalp and then dropped the supposedstone into the patients lap or a neighbor-ing bucket. Very likely wens were alsoremoved as stones. This particular engraving has a specialinterest, because it is one, and the bestone, of the three copies of this engravingnow extant. Of the other two, one is inAmsterdam and the other in Leyden. (Seecatalogue of the engravings of Peter Brue-ghel LAncien by Rene Van Bastelaer.)The other two engravings arc cut down Deken Rouse in Vlaedire on the hem ofthe robe of the operator at the left of thepicture, but these words were written inand do not belong to the picture. My printMeasures by Peter Brueghel was born in Flanders inabout the year 1530, and was the son of apeasant. He was instructed in painting byPet
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