| Autor: |
Koehler PJ; Faculty of Health, Medicine & Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Wijlre, The Netherlands., Visser A; Independent Scholar, The Netherlands. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of the history of the neurosciences [J Hist Neurosci] 2022 Apr-Jun; Vol. 31 (2-3), pp. 351-367. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Apr 12. |
| DOI: |
10.1080/0964704X.2022.2054644 |
| Abstrakt: |
In his Recollections (1947), Dutch neuropsychiatrist Cornelis Winkler mentioned his colleague Ada Potter, who made many of the neuroanatomic drawings in his publications. She also made two microscopical brain atlases (of a rabbit and a cat) and participated in endeavors to publish a human brain atlas. Born on East Java (Dutch East Indies), Potter received her M.D. from the University of Amsterdam. She worked with Winkler until his retirement (1926) and then moved to the United States. Subsequently, she went back to East Java, practicing in an insane asylum. In the meantime, she was active in the women's mancipation movement. After a short stay in Geneva, she returned to the Netherlands in 1939. The rabbit and cat atlases (1911 and 1914, respectively) were major projects that served animal experimenters up to the 1980s. They consist of 40 and 35 black-and-white plates, respectively, depicting microscopic fiber and cell structure drawings with extensive legends. In a period in which medical photography had fully developed, they preferred drawings, particularly because neurons in thick microscopical slices can only be seen by continuous focusing. The choice was shared by well-known neuroanatomists, such as Ramon y Cajal, who noted that drawing facilitates analysis and teaches scientists how to see. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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