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

Idol (marble from Keros, Groupe de Syros, type de Spedos)

Year: 2700 BC

Author: Anonymous Ignoto or

Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Keywords: FEMININE FEMALE SPEDOS SYROS KEROS SCULPTURE HEAD NOSE

Amerindian infant in Papoose

Year: 1856

Author: Krieghoff Cornelius - (1815-1872)

Location: Art Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Keywords: Papoose Child Board Restraint

Profile of Canadian Amerindian with flattened (induced) forehead

Year: 1848

Author: Kain Paul - (1810-1871)

Location: Art Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Keywords: RED SKIN AMERICAN CANADIAN NATIVE QUEBEC

Canadian Amerindians infant

Year: 1848

Author: Kain Paul - (1810-1871)

Location: Art Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Keywords: CHACTAW AMERICAN INDIAN AMERINDIAN NATIVE FLAT PLAGIOCEPHALY CHATA INFANT COMPRESSION DEFORMATION

Canadian Amerindians (Caw-Wacham)

Year: 1856

Author: Krieghoff Cornelius - (1815-1872)

Location: Art Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Keywords: TENT BARK FAMILY FISH COOK CANADA INDIAN AMERICAN AMERINDIAN INFANT BABY DEFORMITY CHOCTAW CHATA PLAGIOCEPHALY

Chasseur indien et sa famille

Year: 1856

Author: Krieghoff Cornelius - (1815-1872)

Location: Art Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Keywords: AMERINDIANS CANADA HABITAT COOKING SNOWSHOE RIFFLE AXE HUNTING FAMILY SURVIVAL

Marriage of a Microcephalic

Year: 1806

Author: de Goya y Lucientes Francisco Jose - (1746-1828)

Location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain

Keywords: NUPTIAL WEDDING ESPOUSAL FACIES MENTAL RETARDATION OLIGOPHRENIA MICROCEPHALY DEVELOPMENTAL ANOMALIES

Thalidomide Embryopathy

Author: Warkany Josef

Location: Private Collection

Keywords: THALIDOMIDE MALFORMATION REDUCTION LIMB ANOMALIES DEFECTS IQ BIRTH DEFECTS DRUG TERATOGEN FDA

A woman to be a mother seems stunned and in fear that the contents of her womb, uterus, or matrix materializing matter into her child may produce an infant harmed by medications or other teratogens.

Year: 1960

Author: Albrizio ( 1894 - 1973) A. Conrad

Location: Lobby University Hospital of the University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA

Keywords: HIPPOCRATES GALEN VESALIUS IMHOTEP ARCHITECT TERATOGEN TERATOLOGY MEDICINE HOSTORY EMBLEM STAFF ROD WAND BATON CADUCEUS MOSAIC USA SOUTH ALABAMA MOBILE OATH ORACULAR ORACLE PROGNOSTICATION PROGNOSIS HEALING HOMEOSTASIS GENETIC COUNSELING IMHOPTEP IMHOPT IMUTHES IIEMHOTEP ALBRIZIO MOSAIC IMHOTEP HIEROGLYPH OWL ATHENA TETRADRACHMA IMHOTEP

Aesculapius Asclepius Esculapius Esculapio Asclepios Asklepios

Year: 1960

Author: Albrizio Conrad A. - (1894-1973)

Location: University Hospital, Mobile, Alabama, USA

Keywords: ASCLEPIUS AESCLEPIUS ESCULAPIUS AESCULAPUS ESCULAPIO ESCULAPIUS ASKLEPIOS AESKLIPIAS STAFF MEDICINE HISTORY EMBLEM HEALING SNAKE PAEAN HEALER HIPPOCRATES OATH IMHOTEP