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...Rome. He worked with such devouring diligence that sometimes his wife and children would go without supper rather than disturb him. Day after day for 25 years, he would hunt down ruins, and, as his biographer, A. Hyatt Mayor, has written, he would go at them "like an anatomist at a cadaver-stripping, sectioning, sawing until he had established the structure in all its layers and functions." His Roman Antiquities made him famous; his Views of Rome is the greatest pictorial biography ever done of Rome. He worked tirelessly on, defying to the last the new champions of ancient Athens...
James's picture, painted around 1800, is a classical Venus, treated so gingerly that the figures are the essence of modesty. Boston's William Rimmer, though he was a physician and anatomist, and though he was a sculptor who must have known the classic Greek and Roman models, felt constrained to leave out the genitals when he painted a floating male figure in Evening, Fall of Day. Ralph Blakelock, who ended his days trying to paint million-dollar bills in a Middletown, N.Y., asylum, possessed a talent that still has the power to haunt. His small Wood Nymph...
Dangerous Location. But in the Circle of Willis (named for English Anatomist Thomas Willis, who described it in 1664), surgery is tricky. Into the circle, like highways converging into a cloverleaf, the four ascending arteries pour the brain's blood supply, and from the circle branch off the principal feeder lines from which oxygen is extracted for the brain's ceaseless activity. Located inside the skull about the eye-and-ear level, the Circle of Willis is in too dangerous a place for surgeons to cut into its vessels. Yet the different segments of the circle...
Sharp & Scholar. To the professional satisfaction of his older brother, William, a melancholy anatomist who became one of London's more fashionable physicians, John Hunter could bargain for corpses with the finesse of a whist sharp (which he was). But he had other talents too. A careless scholar, an indifferent cabinetmaker, John at 20 joined his brother's London medical school. He learned fast: within a year he was teaching one of William's dissecting classes; later he helped on his brother's major discovery-the first accurate descriptive anatomy of a pregnant uterus...
Three Slaves. In between are such notables as Caspar Bartholin (1655-1738), who identified the vulvovaginal lubricating glands; Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), a versatile anatomist; Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844-1924), who perfected the head-down, hips-up position for surgery on the pelvis; Isidor Clinton Rubin (1883-1958), who devised a way of blowing C02 through the Fallopian tubes as a fertility test; and the team of Selmar Aschheim, 80, and Bernhard Zondek, 67, whose mouse test has answered-millions of times, quickly and accurately-the question: "Am I pregnant...