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Purpose of medical art is didactic, to teach medical students about healthy and unhealthy human bodies and how to operate on them. Earliest known examples of medical art are Babylonian baked clay models of the liver. Earliest known medical painting represents the birth of one of Cleopatra's babies. In the Italian Renaissance painters belonged to the Guild of Physicians & Apothecaries, because they bought supplies from drugstores. Artists thus developed friends among doctors, and had opportunity to study anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci made more than 750 anatomical sketches, was the first to depict the true position of the fetus...
...Kelly's associate, Gynecologist Thomas Stephen Cullen, persuaded the late President Henry Walters of the Atlantic Coast Line R. R. to finance a chair of "Arts as Applied to Medicine" in Johns Hopkins. Associate Professor of Art Brödel gives a two-year course. Hardest thing to teach, says he, is "the use of highlights to represent the glistening character of fresh tissue, vessels, nerves and delicate structures of all kinds upon which, in medical drawings, so much depends." Over 100 have graduated from this course since 1913, among them his daughter, Elizabeth Brödel, who draws...
Like many another State, Virginia requires its public schools to teach the harmful effects of alcohol. But two years ago the State General Assembly went further, commissioned University of Virginia's Dr. James Alexander Waddell and Medical College of Virginia's Dr. Harvey Bernhardt Haag to prepare a scientific treatise on alcohol's effects. Two months ago Drs. Waddell & Haag submitted their report to the State Board of Education, which warmly endorsed the work, sent it to the General Assembly for approval as a textbook. In no time at all the Woman's Christian Temperance Union...
...criticism levelled at Professor Lake for "teaching a work with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content" is summed up in Gradgrind's "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root up everything else...
...Ryan School of Aeronautics, which last week surveyed its 15 years' activity. Ryan's students come mostly from farms and small towns. Though the average age of enrollment is 21, each fresh batch includes a few middle-aged executives, bankers, retired Army & Navy officers. Seventeen instructors teach ten full courses each year, turn out master navigators for $100; radio engineers, $250; master mechanics, $495; private and limited commercial pilots, $545 to $795; commercial pilots, $2,285; master pilots, $3,275. The two-year aeronautical engineering course costs $1,275. Most parents help with fees, though Ryan finds oldsters...