John Ranby FRS, William Hogarth and the Barber Surgeons.
Br Dent J
; 236(3): 200-204, 2024 02.
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ABSTRACT
The progress of dentistry towards a profession allied to medicine and surgery was incremental, and a most important step in that process was the separation of the surgeons from the barbers in 1745. Hogarth's illustration of a dentally active barber has been discussed previously in the British Dental Journal. In this paper, his probable contribution to the campaign for separation led successfully by his friend, surgeon John Ranby FRS (1703-1773), through the dramatic and much analysed painting The death of the countess (1743), is analysed. In this paper, it is suggested that William Hogarth was not only aware of the tensions between the physicians, surgeons and barbers that had come to a head, but that he modified the first thoughts, seen in a sketch (now at the Ashmolean, Oxford), to incorporate in this painting, and the print made from it a conspicuous sub-scene, almost central in a composition where the dying countess would be expected to be the only subject, as a satirical comment on that internal conflict.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Pinturas
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Médicos
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Cirurgiões Barbeiros
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Medicina
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Br Dent J
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
Reino Unido