Excursion into the Human Body
When one studies medicine i believe there are two defining exciting moments that's hard to forget. First is the encounter with a cadaver and the second the first time in front of a patient with a whitecoat officially a doctor to be but nowhere near that experience and knowledge-wise.
I'll talk about the first one that happened in some 17 years ago in 2000. It's a bit intriguing that you see the inevitable end of human body earlier in your medical training than the living and the ill. The smell of formaldehyde burning your nostrils, and the opened up bodies of different sizes and shapes that gives one a showcase of butchery rather. The first time you enter the dissection room the faces had a bigger impact than later on. You look at them more carefully. One may have a stubbly beard, one may have a mouth open and the other may have scarce hair that looked glued to its neck. Were they poor they ended up in a dissection room?
As time goes by, you get to see a ceertain mechanic side to humanity, the muscles that originated from there pulls this bone. The intestines are hanged to the back of the abdomen by a curtain like tissue and so forth... You internalize the physical part of humanity emotionally and incorporate that knowledge to your library of mind.
As our anatomy instructors and i did for a while in a residency in anatomy, also in the 17th century the dissection of a cadaver was something like a show. It was done in an operation theater where people used to pay to see it and from time to time the portraits of the participants were painted. This time though they say Rembrandt gave a new breath to this business showing a full length corpse in the middle and creating a dramatic scene that shows the awe in the faces of men who are excited to be exposed to new experiences gaining new knowledge.
I'll talk about the first one that happened in some 17 years ago in 2000. It's a bit intriguing that you see the inevitable end of human body earlier in your medical training than the living and the ill. The smell of formaldehyde burning your nostrils, and the opened up bodies of different sizes and shapes that gives one a showcase of butchery rather. The first time you enter the dissection room the faces had a bigger impact than later on. You look at them more carefully. One may have a stubbly beard, one may have a mouth open and the other may have scarce hair that looked glued to its neck. Were they poor they ended up in a dissection room?
As time goes by, you get to see a ceertain mechanic side to humanity, the muscles that originated from there pulls this bone. The intestines are hanged to the back of the abdomen by a curtain like tissue and so forth... You internalize the physical part of humanity emotionally and incorporate that knowledge to your library of mind.
As our anatomy instructors and i did for a while in a residency in anatomy, also in the 17th century the dissection of a cadaver was something like a show. It was done in an operation theater where people used to pay to see it and from time to time the portraits of the participants were painted. This time though they say Rembrandt gave a new breath to this business showing a full length corpse in the middle and creating a dramatic scene that shows the awe in the faces of men who are excited to be exposed to new experiences gaining new knowledge.
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| The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, Rembrandt, 1632 |
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