Presented at the Medical Library Association 2015 Conference in Austin, Texas in the History of Medicine Division Section program.

1. Memory Makers of Human
Anatomy Studies at the
University of Michigan
Michelle B. Bass & Barbara L. Shipman
Taubman Health Sciences Library
University of Michigan
Presented at Medical Library Association Conference
May 18, 2015
@mbbassdrlib
email: mbbass@umich.edu
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2. -Leonardo Fioravanti, Del regimento della peste, fol. 70r
Only those who are written up
in the books stay alive forever
and their names will never die.
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3. Define memory makers
Introduce memory makers
Review seminal works
Overview of importance of
medical special collections
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4. Memory Makers
Collective memory is the result of
the interaction among three types of
historical factors: the intellectual
and cultural traditions that
frame all our representations of the
past, the memory makers who
selectively adopt and manipulate
these traditions, and the memory
consumers who use, ignore, or
transform such artifacts according
to their own interests”
-(Kansteiner, 2002, p. 180)
The role of the archive…
preserving and
perpetuating the role of
memory makers
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5. Memory Makers Part I
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6. Leonardo Fioravanti Andreas Vesalius
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7. 131-201
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8. Galen
Greek anatomist
Galen. Photograph of engraving . Image
retrieved from Images from the History of
Medicine (NLM)
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9. 1507
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10. Anothomia Mondini nuper optime emêdata ac sûma diligêtia îpressa
by Mondino dei Luzzi
An anatomy textbook with no images
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12. 1542
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19. Andreae Vesalius
Father of Anatomy
Tabulae Anatomicae Sex
(1538)
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
(1543)
Epitome (1543)
Image retrieved from http://www.med.nagoya-u.ac.jp/medlib/history_en/archive/image/gallery/49_003.jpg16

20. 1558
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21. De Capricci Medicinali dell’ eccellente medico & cirugico (1573) & Dello Specchio
Di Scienta Universale, dell’ eccellente medico, & cirugico Libri Tre (1563)
By Leonardo Fioravanti
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22. Interior scene of a barber treating a man’s foot (165?) C. Visher & A. Brouwer.
Image retrieved from the Images from the History of Medicine, National Library of Medicine
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23. 1698
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25. 1753
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26. Tabulae ossium humanorum
By Bernhard Siegfried Albinus
Elephant portfolio human anatomy
illustrations
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32. -Dr. Stephen Pilcher, 1914, p.1001
“To the modern physician, the peculiar qualities
displayed by Vesalius must have a special charm
and honor. To energy and enthusiasm he added a
contempt for authority and a demand for
personal demonstration, which is the foundation
of the scientific method for all ages”.
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33. 2014
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34. Translated Edition of The Fabric of the Human Body
By D.H. Garrison & M.H. Hast
A gift from Dr. Bernard Sivak to the University of Michigan Library
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39. Memory Makers Part II
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40. Le Roy Crummer Portrait (1925) Illustration by Laura Knight
Retrieved from Images from the History of Medicine, U.S. National
Library of Medicine on March 31, 2015
Lewis Stephen Pilcher (date unknown) Retrieved from http://
zetapsi.org/about/history/1920-1947/
on March 31, 2015
Lewis Stephen Pilcher Le Roy Crummer
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41. 1845-1935Dr. Lewis Stephen Pilcher
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42. 1862, earned AB from
University of Michigan
1885, founded Annals
of Surgery, served as
editor for 50 years
1900, honorary LLD
from University of
Michigan
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43. Semi-Centennial Gold Medal from Physicians of Brooklyn, 1916
GOOGLE PROJECT - ATTN: BEA MALLEK., Pilcher, L. Stephen. (1925).
A surgical pilgrim's progress: reminiscences of Lewis Stephen Pilcher.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co.
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44. 1872-1934Dr. Le Roy Crummer
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45. - JAMA, 1936, pp.1943-1944
Dr. Crummer collected works “worth owning
not simply because it was old….the author of
the book must mean something in the history
of medical development” to earn a spot on his
bookshelves.
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47. University of Michigan Special Collections Library:
Vesalius Editions
Suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum
epitome (1560) Pilcher Collection
Suorum De humani corporis fabrica epitome
(1543) Pilcher Collection
Suorum de humani corporis fabrica liborum
epitome: cum iconibus elegantissimis iuxta
germaña authrois delineationem artifitiose iam
pridem ex aera (1600) Crummer Collection
De humani corporis fabrica, lib. VII (1552)
Crummer Collection
De humani corporis fabrica, lib. VII (1562)
Pilcher Collection
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1555)
Crummer Collection
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (1555)
Pilcher Collection
Librorvm Andreae Vesalii…:De hvmani corporis
fabrica epitome: cum annotationibus Nicolai
Fontani (1642) Crummer Collection
Andreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum
Patauinae Professoris, De humani corporis fabrica
libri septem (1543) Pilcher Collection
Anatomes totivs, aere inscvlpta delineatio, cvi
addita est Epitome innvmeris mendis repvrgata,
qvam de corporis humani fabrica conscripsit clariss.
/ And. Vesalius: eíqve… (1564) Pilcher Collection
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48. Pilcher Collection Highlights
Celsus, De medicina liber incipit,
1478
Jacopo Berengario da Carpi,
Isagogae breues, plucid ac uberrim,
in anatomia humani corporis.
1523
Gabriele Falloppio,
Observationes anatomicae, 1561
Ambroise Paré, Les oevvres de m.
Ambroise Paré, 1575
Albrecht Dürer, Della simmetria
dei corpi humani, 1591
William Cheselden,
Osteographia, or the anatomy of
the bones, 1733
William Hunter, Anatomia uteri
humani gravidi…, 1851
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49. Crummer Collection Highlights
Johannes de Ketham, Fasciculus
medicie, 1522
Johannes Dryander, Anatomiae,
hoc est, Corporis humani
dissectionis…, 1537
Charles Estienne, De dissectione
partium corporis humani libri tres,
1545
Felix Platter, De corporis humani
structura et usu, 1583
William Harvey, De motu cordis et
sanguinis in animalibus…, 1643
Johann Remmelin, Kleiner Welt
Spiegel, das 1st, 1632
Govard Bidloo, Anatomia humani
corporis, 1685
William Smellier, A sett of
anatomical tables, etc. 1754

50. Referenced WorksAlbinus, B.S. (1753). Tabulae ossium humanorum. Leidae: Apvd J. et H. Verbeek.
Cowper, William (1698). The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with figures drawn after the life by some of the best masters in
Europe, & curiously engraved in copper plates. Oxford, London: Smith & Walford.
dei Luzzi, M. (1507). Anothomia Mondini nuper optime emêdata ac sûma diligêtia îpressa. Venetiis.
Fioravanti, L. (1573). De capricci medicinali…libri Quattro. Con molta diligenza reuisti, cor., & ristampi. Venetia: Appresso
Lodouico Auanzo.
Fioravanti, L. (1632). Della fisica dell’eccelente dottere et cavaliero M. Leonardo Fioravanti Bolognese. Diuisa in libri Quattro.
Venice: Per Gli Heredi di Melchior Sessa.
Kansteiner, W. (2002). Finding meaning in memory: A methodological critique of collective memory studies. History and
Theory, 41, 179-197.
Vesalius, A. (1542). Andrae Vesalii suorum De humani corporis fabrica epitome . Basilae: Ex officinal I. Oporini (Pilcher
Collection)
Vesalius, A. (1543). Andrae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae Professoris, De humani corporis fabrica libri
septem. Basilae: Ex offician Ioannis Oporini. (Pilcher Collection)
Vesalius, A. (2014). The fabric of the human body: an annotated translation of the 1543 and 1555 editions. Translated by
Daniel H. Garrison and Malcolm H. Hast. Basel: Karger.
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