July 27, 2007
Exhibition: Forensic Views\ Visible Proofs
>for example from the "19th Century Forensic Imaging Gallery"
Head and hand of a drownee, 1864
In atlases and manuals of legal medicine, 19th-century forensic pathologists used pictures and words to show students and colleagues their methodology—a precise inventorying of the condition of the victim's body. The chromolithograph, which could render coloration, texture and subtle shading, was particularly well suited to the task.
Johann Ludwig Casper, M.D., Atlas zum Handbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin [Atlas for the Manual of Legal Medicine], Berlin; Artist: Hugo Troschel; Lithographer: Winckelmann & Sons
link to all the galleries http://www.nlm.nih.gov/visibleproofs/galleries/
media index (Quicktime or Windows Media Player required)
| US National Library of Medicine
~ Many images and articles: a PG-13 exhibition.
Posted by Stubbornson at July 27, 2007 09:15 PM