Novel surgical tools demand revision of our anatomical knowledge. Anatomical drawings are extraordinarily useful to describe organs and highlight surgical details, representing an exceptional method ...

During his long journey through Europe and the Levant in 1867, Mark Twain stopped off in Milan. Like many, he was struck by the grandeur of the city’s great cathedral, but it was something else that ...

For the first time in almost 250 years the Pennsylvania Hospital in Center City is showing its original collection of medical drawings publicly. But even though they were made for education, the ...

Leonardo Da Vinci was one of the first people to draw detailed sketches of human anatomy. His drawings showed that he noticed networks of muscle fibers on the inside of the heart. Da Vinci thought ...