Iconographic representations are always
both suggestive and challenging to the historian. Interpreting
an image, relating it to the values, beliefs, feelings and world
perceptions at a particular point in history can open a window
to an era and society that are not only previous to our own, but
above all different of ours.
This page contains some images directly or indirectly
related to the research theme, since epilepsy and what it
represents is present in works of art, scientific illustrations,
or in the votive offerings from the faithful in return for
prayers granted in resolving earthly problems. There are also
registers of some places of memory of medicine in Brazil.
Art
Votives
Books, magazines and
scientific illustrations
Other images
Cure of an epileptic – Livre des heures du maitre Saint Louis.
Fifteenth Century
Epilepticus sic curabitur – Sloane Manuscript
Twelfth Century, British Museum
Nueva crónica y Buen Gobierno – Poma de Ayala – Sixteenth
Century – The wife of Inca ruler Capac Yupanqui suffering a
seizure
Paris – Museum of Ethnology
Loris Marazzi – Your Brain is Your Strength – Wood carving
Twentieth Century – Germany (Imagem em
www.epilepsiemuseum.de)
Hieronymus Bosch (1485) – The Extraction of the Stone of Madness
(The Cure of Folly) – Madrid – Prado Museum
