The document provides a historical overview of medical illustration at Mayo Clinic from 1883 to 1911. It describes how the practice began with Dr. William Worrall Mayo and his sons Drs. William and Charles Mayo, and details how they recruited early medical illustrators like Max Brödel and Carl Ludwig. It notes the increasing importance of medical illustration for documenting cases, research, and teaching as Mayo Clinic grew. By 1911, the medical library had amassed over 70,000 images and 100 years of documenting medicine through medical art.

1. Visualizing Medicine
A Historical Look at the Practice of
Medical Illustration at Mayo Clinic
Bob Morreale

2. 1883

3. Mother Alfred Moes
Dr. William Worrall Mayo

4. Will Charlie
1884 1889

5. 1889

7. 1892

8. 1894
Max Brödel

9. Carl Ludwig
Leipzig Physiological Institute, Germany

10. Franklin Mall Howard Kelly Thomas Cullen
William Halsted Harvey Cushing

11. Franklin Mall Howard Kelly Thomas Cullen
William Halsted Harvey Cushing William Mayo

12. 1900

14. 205
The total number of
papers published
between
1889 and 1907

15. 1907
Medical Library Pneumatic Record Transport
Maud H. Mellish Dr. Henry S. Plummer

20. rk Times
right © The New Yo
er 17, 1911 • Copy
Published: Decemb

27. Eleanora Fry
Provided courtesy of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

28. 1911

38. 100 Years of Medical Art
Over 70,000 images

39. SCALPEL
TO
SKETCH
the science and beauty of
medical illustration at Mayo Clinic

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