Author explains how Hector Beriloz as young medical student faces the horrifying physical impact of hospitals and experiences corpses dissections. In the beautiful poem, Burch connects Beriloz’s awful experience and horrifying scene at the hospital. …show more content…
But throughout the research author found two things that left him astonished. One was a loose leaf of paper on which Cooper hastily written some anatomical observations after the death of King George IV. The other object was a scene of forest illustrating human breast which was painted with “romantic sensibility”. Author explains, “the trunks were not of trees but were the ducts along which flowed a mother’s milk; the leaves were the glands producing it”. His work majorly depended upon obtaining specimens. He was supplied with a diseased, rotten breast. He examined the breast with beauty and illustrated it to a forest. His research on it saved many lives as surgeons mistook abscesses for cancer and often removed breasts. Cooper’s belief on the idea of human beauty was based on the perception to see the world truthfully. Druin Bruch asserted how Cooper recognized anatomy in new ways and approached it in clinical ways with his strong ideas. Cooper knew how to enjoy his profession and showed how success can be achieved by seeking beauty in things where others saw horror. His discoveries in anatomy and surgery won him worldwide fame.
The article “ The Beauty of Bodysnatching” by Druin Burch profiles anatomist Astley Cooper, whose time as a grave looter procuring bodies to hospitals for essential experimental discoveries over the human body. Cooper was an early proponent for dismemberment or any …show more content…
But throughout the research author found two things that left him astonished. One was a loose leaf of paper on which Cooper hastily written some anatomical observations after the death of King George IV. The other object was a scene of forest illustrating human breast which was painted with “romantic sensibility”. Author explains, “the trunks were not of trees but were the ducts along which flowed a mother’s milk; the leaves were the glands producing it”. His work majorly depended upon obtaining specimens. He was supplied with a diseased, rotten breast. He examined the breast with beauty and illustrated it to a forest. His research on it saved many lives as surgeons mistook abscesses for cancer and often removed breasts. Cooper’s belief on the idea of human beauty was based on the perception to see the world truthfully. Druin Bruch asserted how Cooper recognized anatomy in new ways and approached it in clinical ways with his strong ideas. Cooper knew how to enjoy his profession and showed how success can be achieved by seeking beauty in things where others saw horror. His discoveries in anatomy and surgery won him worldwide fame.
The article “ The Beauty of Bodysnatching” by Druin Burch profiles anatomist Astley Cooper, whose time as a grave looter procuring bodies to hospitals for essential experimental discoveries over the human body. Cooper was an early proponent for dismemberment or any