In the ‘Anatomy lessons’ that were painted for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Frank IJpma is a surgeon at the University Medical Center Groningen.
Thomas van Gulik is emeritus Professor of Surgery at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
1. Sebastiaan Egbertszn [1] 1601–1603
2. Sebastiaan Egbertszn [2] 1619
3. Johan Fonteijn 1625–1626
4. Nicolaes Tulp 1632
5. Jan Deijman 1656
6. Fredrik Ruysch [1] 1670
7. Fredrik Ruysch [2] 1683
8. Willem Röell 1728
9. Petrus Camper 1758
Portraits of the Governors
Bibliography
Picture Acknowledgements
Index
Acknowledgements
About the authors