Sublime

Shep Nuland, chirurgien-philosophe renommé, donnait encore des cours à la fac de médecine de Yale quand Lucy et moi y fîmes nos classes.

Morantz-Sanchez quotes Professor Henry Hartshorne, delivering the 1872 commencement address at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania: It is not always the most logical, but often the most discerning physician who succeeds best at the bedside. Medicine is, indeed, a science, but its practice is an art. Those who bring the quick eye, the

A doctor’s goal is not just to cure disease. It’s to cure disease within the confines of what’s reasonable and tolerable to the patient.

It’s only in modern times that this view has changed, with the central emphasis on the brain as our most important organ.

Leonardo was among the first to fully appreciate that the heart, not the liver, was the center of the blood system. “All the veins and arteries arise from the heart,” he wrote

The centrality of anatomy to medicine’s project was proclaimed in the Renaissance

At the time when he was perfecting Lisa’s smile, Leonardo was spending his nights in the depths of the morgue under the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, peeling the flesh off cadavers and exposing the muscles and nerves underneath. He became fascinated about how a smile begins to form and instructed himself to analyze every possible movement of each