Nov. 16, 2008–March 17, 2020 Dibner Hall of the History of Science
In the exhibition Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World, the medicine gallery illustrated the wildly different and sometimes extreme ways the body has been represented. It charted physical experiences from birth to death and traced the development of new techniques for understanding and treating diverse medical conditions.
De humani corporis fabrica (Epitome: On the fabric of the human body, 1543), by Andreas Vesalius.
Anatomy, descriptive and surgical, 1858, Henry Gray
Transparency of an early diagnostic x-ray, 1896, Michael Pupin
