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J Assoc Physicians India
December 2006
Dept. of Medicine, TN Medical College & BYL Nair Ch. Hospital, Mumbai.
Rembrandt's painting 'The Anatomy Lesson' (1632) is revolutionary in its portrayal of members of the Anatomic Guild. It has an entirely new composition and vividly depicts the dynamics of the event and the interest of the participants. However, the structures of the dissected forearm have been taken from a copy and not from the original.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe beginning of the seventeenth century marked the start of a scientific revolution, which had consequences for medicine. Vesalius in anatomy, and Harvey in physiology, were important figures who gave the Hippocratic and Galenic traditions new impulses. In this period of change in medical thought, Nicolaas Tulp (1593-1674) wrote his 'Observationes Medicae' (Tulp, 1641).
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October 1993
Ziekenhuis De Wever & Gregorius, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
In 1641, Nicolaas Tulp, a well-known physician from Amsterdam, published his Observationes Medicae, in which medical knowledge and practice in that period is described in more than 200 systematically organized case histories. Next to symptomatic headaches he mentioned two different types of "recurring headache" based on the characteristics of the pain and reaction to contemporary treatment: migraine and, probably, cluster headache.
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