Memory Makers of Human Anatomy Studies at the University of Michigan

Michelle B. Bass & Barbara L. Shipman Taubman Health Sciences Library

University of MichiganPresented at Medical Library Association Conference

May 18, 2015 @mbbassdrlib

email: mbbass@umich.edu

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-Leonardo Fioravanti, Del regimento della peste, fol. 70r

Only those who are written up

in the books stay alive forever

and their names will never die.

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Define memory makers

Introduce memory makers

Review seminal works

Overview of importance of medical special collections

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Memory MakersCollective memory is the result of the interaction among three types of historical factors: the intellectual and cultural traditions that frame all our representations of the past, the memory makers who selectively adopt and manipulate these traditions, and the memory consumers who use, ignore, or transform such artifacts according to their own interests”

-(Kansteiner, 2002, p. 180)

The role of the archive…preserving and

perpetuating the role of memory makers

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Memory Makers Part I

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Leonardo Fioravanti Andreas Vesalius

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131-2017

GalenGreek anatomist

Galen. Photograph of engraving . Image retrieved from Images from the History of

Medicine (NLM)

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Anothomia Mondini nuper optime emêdata ac sûma diligêtia îpressa by Mondino dei Luzzi

An anatomy textbook with no images

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Andreae Vesalius Father of Anatomy

Tabulae Anatomicae Sex (1538)

De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543)

Epitome (1543)

Image retrieved from http://www.med.nagoya-u.ac.jp/medlib/history_en/archive/image/gallery/49_003.jpg16

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De Capricci Medicinali dell’ eccellente medico & cirugico (1573) & Dello Specchio Di Scienta Universale, dell’ eccellente medico, & cirugico Libri Tre (1563)

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Interior scene of a barber treating a man’s foot (165?) C. Visher & A. Brouwer. Image retrieved from the Images from the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine

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Tabulae ossium humanorum By Bernhard Siegfried Albinus

Elephant portfolio human anatomy illustrations

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-Dr. Stephen Pilcher, 1914, p.1001

“To the modern physician, the peculiar qualities displayed by Vesalius must have a special charm and honor. To energy and enthusiasm he added a

contempt for authority and a demand for personal demonstration, which is the foundation

of the scientific method for all ages”.

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Translated Edition of The Fabric of the Human Body By D.H. Garrison & M.H. Hast

A gift from Dr. Bernard Sivak to the University of Michigan Library

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Memory Makers Part II

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Le Roy Crummer Portrait (1925) Illustration by Laura Knight Retrieved from Images from the History of Medicine, U.S. National

Library of Medicine on March 31, 2015

Lewis Stephen Pilcher (date unknown) Retrieved from http://zetapsi.org/about/history/1920-1947/

on March 31, 2015

Lewis Stephen Pilcher Le Roy Crummer

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1845-1935Dr. Lewis Stephen Pilcher

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1862, earned AB from University of Michigan

1885, founded Annals of Surgery, served as editor for 50 years

1900, honorary LLD from University of Michigan

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Semi-Centennial Gold Medal from Physicians of Brooklyn, 1916 GOOGLE PROJECT - ATTN: BEA MALLEK., Pilcher, L. Stephen. (1925). A surgical pilgrim's progress: reminiscences of Lewis Stephen Pilcher.

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1872-1934Dr. Le Roy Crummer

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- JAMA, 1936, pp.1943-1944

Dr. Crummer collected works “worth owning not simply because it was old….the author of the book must mean something in the history of medical development” to earn a spot on his

bookshelves.

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University of Michigan Special Collections Library: Vesalius Editions

Suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome (1560) Pilcher Collection

Suorum De humani corporis fabrica epitome (1543) Pilcher Collection

Suorum de humani corporis fabrica liborum epitome: cum iconibus elegantissimis iuxta germaña authrois delineationem artifitiose iam pridem ex aera (1600) Crummer Collection

De humani corporis fabrica, lib. VII (1552) Crummer Collection

De humani corporis fabrica, lib. VII (1562) Pilcher Collection

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1555) Crummer Collection

De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1555) Pilcher Collection

Librorvm Andreae Vesalii…:De hvmani corporis fabrica epitome: cum annotationibus Nicolai Fontani (1642) Crummer Collection

Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae Professoris, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1543) Pilcher Collection

Anatomes totivs, aere inscvlpta delineatio, cvi addita est Epitome innvmeris mendis repvrgata, qvam de corporis humani fabrica conscripsit clariss. / And. Vesalius: eíqve… (1564) Pilcher Collection

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Pilcher Collection HighlightsCelsus, De medicina liber incipit,

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Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, Isagogae breues, plucid ac uberrim, in anatomia humani corporis. 1523

Gabriele Falloppio, Observationes anatomicae, 1561

Ambroise Paré, Les oevvres de m. Ambroise Paré, 1575

Albrecht Dürer, Della simmetria dei corpi humani, 1591

William Cheselden, Osteographia, or the anatomy of the bones, 1733

William Hunter, Anatomia uteri humani gravidi…, 1851

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Crummer Collection HighlightsJohannes de Ketham, Fasciculus

medicie, 1522

Johannes Dryander, Anatomiae, hoc est, Corporis humani dissectionis…, 1537

Charles Estienne, De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, 1545

Felix Platter, De corporis humani structura et usu, 1583

William Harvey, De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus…, 1643

Johann Remmelin, Kleiner Welt Spiegel, das 1st, 1632

Govard Bidloo, Anatomia humani corporis, 1685

William Smellier, A sett of anatomical tables, etc. 1754

Referenced WorksAlbinus, B.S. (1753). Tabulae ossium humanorum. Leidae: Apvd J. et H. Verbeek.

Cowper, William (1698). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in Europe, & curiously engraved in copper plates. Oxford, London: Smith & Walford.

dei Luzzi, M. (1507). Anothomia Mondini nuper optime emêdata ac sûma diligêtia îpressa. Venetiis.

Fioravanti, L. (1573). De capricci medicinali…libri Quattro. Con molta diligenza reuisti, cor., & ristampi. Venetia: Appresso Lodouico Auanzo.

Fioravanti, L. (1632). Della fisica dell’eccelente dottere et cavaliero M. Leonardo Fioravanti Bolognese. Diuisa in libri Quattro. Venice: Per Gli Heredi di Melchior Sessa.

Kansteiner, W. (2002). Finding meaning in memory: A methodological critique of collective memory studies. History and Theory, 41, 179-197.

Vesalius, A. (1542). Andrae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica epitome . Basilae: Ex officinal I. Oporini (Pilcher Collection)

Vesalius, A. (1543). Andrae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae Professoris, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basilae: Ex offician Ioannis Oporini. (Pilcher Collection)

Vesalius, A. (2014). The fabric of the human body: an annotated translation of the 1543 and 1555 editions. Translated by Daniel H. Garrison and Malcolm H. Hast. Basel: Karger.

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