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

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Year: 1778

Author: Suplessis Joseph Siffred - (1725-1802)

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

Detail from "Menina"

Year: 1656

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

Location: El Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Keywords: GENETICS GENE MUTATION AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT CHONDROSKELETAL SKELETAL ACHONDROPLASIA DYSPLASIA NANISM DWARF MIDGET SHORT STATURE HEIGHT ENANO DOG FAMILY PRINCESS PORTRAIT MANDIBLE JAW FOREHEAD MACROCEPHALY MEGALOCEPHALY

El bufon don Sebastian de Morra

Year: 1643

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

Location: El Prado , Madrid, Spain

Keywords: SKELETON BONE DYSPLASIA ACHONDROPLASIA DWARF MIDGET SHORT STATURE DOMINANT AUTOSOMAL MUTATION GENETIC DWARF ACHONDROPLASIA GENE DOMINANT MUTATION CHONDROSKELETAL DYSPLASIA BONE CARTILAGE FACIES SHORT LIMB FOREHEAD PROMINENCE SADDLE NOSE MACROCEPHALY MEGALOCEPHALY

Scientificism (false science)

Year: 1873

Author: Charles Bell Sir

Location: S.R.Wells, New York City, New York, USA

Illustration in a treatise of Phrenology of

Year: 1873

Author: Bell Charles

Location: Illustration in , New York, New York, USA

Keywords: FACE FACIES PHRENOLOGY PHYSIOGNOMY PHYSIOGNOSIS CHARACTER TRAIT PROFILE RACE RACISM FASCIST NAZI CHARACTEROLOGY

An approach to Physiometry

Year: 1873

Author: Charles Bell Sir

Location: S.R.Wells, New York, New York, USA

Cephalus Grieving over the Dying Procris

Year: 1610

Author: Janssens Abraham - (1575-1632)

Location: Ringling Art Museum, Sarasota, Florida, USA

Keywords: LOVE DEATH DYING WOUND PNEUMOTHORAX CHEST ACCIDENT HUNT LETHAL

Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Prometheus Chained

Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Location: Vatican Museums, Vatican, Italy