{"id":417,"date":"2013-07-03T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T20:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/?p=417"},"modified":"2013-07-10T14:58:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T18:58:26","slug":"digital-exhibition-sneak-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/digital-exhibition-sneak-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital exhibition sneak preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missed our 2011 exhibition \u201cOur Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics, 1901-1944\u201d? Here\u2019s a sneak preview of the digital exhibition currently under construction. You can listen to the original exhibit talk by curator Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn here<\/a>. And stay tuned for more!<\/i><\/p>\n

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S. I. Rainforth. The stereoscopic skin clinic; an atlas of diseases of the skin, consisting of colored stereoscopic illustrations and a text in the form of clinical lectures, designed for the use of practitioners and students of medicine<\/em>. New York: Medical Art Pub. Co., 1914.<\/p><\/div>\n

These images are designed for an early twentieth-century viewing device called a stereoscope, originally intended less for medical purposes than for entertainment. The image shows a disfiguring case of lupus vulgaris, tuberculosis of the skin, on the face of a male patient. The two photos are each shot from a slightly different angle so that when viewed together through the stereoscope they form an optical illusion in 3D.<\/p>\n

Dr. Selden Irwin Rainforth (1879-1960) was a young physician from New York when he compiled The stereoscopic skin clinic<\/i>. The work consisted of over 130 stereoscopic plates with a viewing device and was published in multiple editions. Detailed descriptions of the diseases on the back of each photo card provided useful information about skin conditions at a time when dermatologists were still rare.<\/p>\n

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Further reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Thorne Crissey, Lawrence Charles Parish, and K. Holubar. Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists<\/a><\/em>. Boca Raton, FL: Parthenon, 2002.<\/p>\n

Robert Jackson. “Historical outline of attempts to classify skin diseases<\/a>.” Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/em> 116, no. 10 (May \u00a01977): 1165\u20138. PMCID 1879511. [McGill users]<\/p>\n

Helmut Gernsheim and Alison Gernsheim. The History of<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>Photography: From the Earliest Use of the Camera Obscura in the Eleventh Century up to\u00a01914<\/em><\/a>. London: Oxford University Press, 1955.<\/p>\n

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Missed our 2011 exhibition \u201cOur Friend, the Sun: Images of Light Therapeutics, 1901-1944\u201d? Here\u2019s a sneak preview of the digital exhibition currently under construction. You can listen to the original exhibit talk by curator Dr. Tania Anne Woloshyn here. And … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[117,67,114,115,116],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eresources","tag-dermatology","tag-exhibition","tag-lupus-vulgaris","tag-our-friend-the-sun","tag-stereoscope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/osler-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}