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Brain 2006 129(3):820-824; doi:10.1093/brain/awl019
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‘An old chinese proverb’


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‘One picture is worth more than a thousand words’. A medical artist should always consider an illustration with this in mind. Unlike the brilliant illustrators of Dickens's novels, who needed to portray larger than life characters, a medical illustrator has to portray small, often complex structures, which may never be seen in the way it is illustrated, something a photograph could never achieve. Perhaps this is why photographic illustration still plays a relatively small role in medical publishing. A carefully planned and well-executed illustration remains a useful and often the key feature of modern textbooks.

The beginnings of medical illustration are lost in antiquity. Presumably, the paucity of anatomical information in medical practice meant that there was little to illustrate. There probably were illustrated texts but none has survived. The wood-cuts prior to Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical studies and drawings were speculative rather than informative, making the truly amazing work . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Patten

Hindhead, Surrey


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