Unique drawings by Duchenne de Boulogne.

摘要

Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne (1806-75) is renowned not only for his contributions to the field of muscular diseases, but also for pioneering the use of photography in medical books. Despite his fondness of photography, Duchenne was also a keen illustrator and used his fine drawing skills to portray his patients; unfortunately, unlike his photographic works, most of Duchenne's drawings have not outlived him. One of us (ED) acquired four of Duchenne's drawings from an antiquarian in Paris. The drawings had been kept inside a rare in-folio edition of Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine, published in 1862. To our knowledge, these drawings by Duchenne are the first found since his death.