Food for Thoughts – IDEAS in WORDS, IMAGES, and MEDICINE

Allegory of Vanity

Year: 1640

Author: Pereda Antonio de - (1611-1678)

Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Keywords: SECULAR VANITY VANE WANES AUTHORITY TEMPORAL ROYAL CAESAR SPAIN EMPEROR AUSTRIA

Apollo and Cumaean Sibyl

Author: Cerrini Giovanni Domenico - (1609-1681)

Location: Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany

Keywords: SYBIL CUMEAN ERYTHREA DELPHI PROPHETESS JESUS CHRIST ICONOGRAPHY MICHELANGELO LOVE APOLLO ZEUS AGE AGING WHISTLE

Basic Roman Surgical Kit of Scalpels and Knives

Year: 1st century AD

Location: Kent, England

Birth or Delivery in Tahiti

Year: 1896

Author: Gauguin Paul - (1848-1903)

Location: Pinakothek Museum, Munich, Germany

Keywords: BIRTH DELIVERY LABOR TAHITI BED NEONATE NEWBORN OBSTETRIC NATIVE NATIVITY POSTPARTUM

Colliers avec pendentifs divers - Necklaces with various pendants

Year: VI c. BC

Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

El Bufon Barbarroja Don Cristobal de Castanedo of Pernid, emissary of Cardinal Infante

Author: de Silva y Velazquez Diego Rodriguez - (1599-1660)

Location: El Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Keywords: DWARF MIDGET NANIMS ENONANO DOG PROPORTION SCALE

Enano (dwarf) - personal name unknown.

Author: van der Hamen Juan - (1596-1631)

Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

Keywords: DWARF MIDGET NANISM BODY HABITUS SHORT STATURE PROPORTION DISPROPORTION FACE THUMB DIGIT FINGER NAIL INTELLIGENCE PORTRAIT OLIVARES EL PRADO JUAN VAN DER HAMEN BUFO BUFON CLOWN JESTER VISION SEE VISION SIGN SIGNAL SYNDROME CLINICIAN CLINICAL PATHOLOGY PATHOGENESIS ETIOLOGY DIAGNOSIS ACHONROPLASIA NEUROFIBROMATOSIS NF-1

Epilepsy Cyanosis Pallor

Year: 1615

Author: Rubens Peter Paul - (1577-1640)

Location: Kunshistorishes Museum, Vienna, Austria

Keywords: EPILEPSY SEIZURE CONVULSION MIRACLE JESUIT EXORCISE DEVIL EVIL DEMON DIABOLO MEPHISTO MEPHISTOLES PALLOR CYANOSIS DROOLING SALIVA COMA INCONTINENCE

Familial Hirsutism probably due to a Autosomal Dominant Mutation

Location: Kunshistorishes Museum, Vienna, Austria

Keywords: HIRSUTE HIRSUTISM INHERITED MENDELIAN AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT SINGLE GENE MUTATION TRAIT PHEONOTYPE FAMILY BEAR HYPERTRICHOSIS

Feeding Child Jupiter

Year: 1640

Author: Poussin Nicolas - (1594-1665)

Location: National Art Gallery, Washington, DC, USA

Keywords: MOTHER FOSTER NURTURE NURSE FEED MILK HONEY CORNUCOPIA AMALTHEA GOAT CRETE JUPITER ZEUS INFANT CAPA CAPELLA ZODIAC CAPRICORN