L0050213 World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical
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World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) lifting a wounded man out of a trench. Painting by Gilbert Rogers.
Below, a trench in which a man stands lifting one end of a stretcher over the top of the trench. Above, three man receive the stretcher, on which lies a man with his face covered with a bloody bandage. Left, a shell explodes. The background is buff, the trench and the figures are predominantly grey, yellow and green, giving an impression of mud everywhere.
Of the men in the upper half, two have armbands with red crosses on a white ground, in addition to uniform badges with red crosses on, while the third, on the left, has only the red cross badge on his uniform, and no armband.
The body of the man on the stretcher is foreshortened to show the soles of his boots, a device also found in paintings by Mantegna, Borgianni, and Rembrandt.
1919 By: Gilbert RogersPublished: –
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The imagine I have chosen is, World War I: stretcher bearers of the Royal Army Medical. I chose this image because of how powerful it is to me, and also because most medical advances have been an achievement of warfare. Throughout history almost every medical advance has been something that has come forth because of human’s capacity to kill each other with the most creative ways that we can think of at the time. But with all the evil, and torment that are associated with war there has been some good that has come out of it. Almost every major medical breakthrough that has been achieved by human beings has come about because of war. Through ways to treat trauma injuries, mental disorders, and infections, the cures have come because physicians and governments are looking for ways to save their fellow citizens from certain ravages of war. From the first medic/shaman that first treated injured soldiers in ancient battle fields in the near Middle East, to the advancement that we have today. The military has been the testing grounds for certain procedures, theories, and innovations of already existing techniques and equipment. For as long as there has been warfare, there has been men who try to help the wounded men heal. Most of humanity has benefited from all the medical discoveries that have been made through battle fields’ hospitals and research to treat those that have come home with physical and mental wounds.

Wellcome Library offers a variety of images to choose from. I chose an image called Pian Fungoide by Jean Luis-Marie Alibert that was published in 1806 in Paris. Jean-Louis Alibert was a dermatologist born on 1768 in southern France and died in 1837. Pian Fungoide was a term used for the first time by him and the name came from the fact that this condition had skin lesions that resembled the mushrooms. This picture is a profile drawing of the face of a middle age man, that has large deep brown overgrowth of lesions on his face. The background is white and plain. The image does not say much about the class status of the patient. Hi does not have a clean haircut, and the seems to be wearing a white coat.  The name of the condition has been printed on the bottom of the paint, and I`m not sure if the name of the author has been printed on the left bottom side of the drawing. Initially when I saw this image, it captured my attention because I had no idea what the condition could be and was interested on exploring the image and condition further. The lesions on his face are very large and I can imagine the effect they had on patient himself. They make his face look scary especially considering that this drawing was from the early 1800. Since this condition caused such deformity, I feel that people might have been scared of him and even seen him as an evil human being. Even though we see the right side of his face, I noticed the growth is a little obvious left eyebrows, but we cant see the much of the other side. It seems as if the right side must have been more deformed than the left.

L0020973 J. L. M. Alibert, Description des maladies de la peau.
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Pian Fungoide
Description des maladies de la peau observees l’Hopital Saint-Louis
Jean Louis-Marie Alibert
Published: 1806
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The image I chose from the Wellcome Library is called “Mr Gledell, suffering from a rodent disease which has.” This watercolour painting, painted in 1829, is one of the six portraits forming a group of works showing gentlefolk of Leeds with grievous illnesses. The painting shows a young, white man with short black hair dressed in a black coat and stock, possibly in upper class society. He is almost emotionless. It is hard to tell whether he is calm or unhappy. And the grayish white on the background of the painting gives a feeling of sadness. The painting captured my attention because of his red nose. It looks like the red nose that we all get in the cold winter season. However, looking closer to the painting we could find a flat red scaly patch on his right nostril.  Indeed, this young man suffers from a rodent disease which has consumed his left nostril. This young man is facing half left, so we could not see the disfigurement on left side of his nose resulted from the rodent disease. This is similar to the images we saw in class. They all depict some types of diseases, illnesses or cancers. The only difference in the painting is the hidden of the disfigurement because the young man is facing half left and looking away from the painter.

L0037317 Mr Gledell, suffering from a rodent disease which has
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Mr Gledell, suffering from a rodent disease which has consumed his left nostril. One of six portraits forming a group of works depicting gentlefolk of Leeds with grievous illnesses. A youngish man, facing half left, dressed in a black coat and stock, his left nostril eaten by a cancer and the whole nose a vivid red.
Watercolour
1829 Published: April 1829.
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