Nueva edicion delAtlas de anatomia humana ilustrado mas apreciado y conocido a nivel mundial. Sin duda el best seller en anatomia de la mano del Dr. Frank Netter.

This article includes a, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient. Please help to this article by more precise citations. (August 2013) () Frank H. Netter Born 25 April 1906,, Died 17 September 1991 ( 1991-09-17) (aged 85) Education Known for Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy Medical career Profession () Specialism Frank H. Netter (25 April 1906 – 17 September 1991) was an American and celebrated. The first edition of his Atlas of Human Anatomy — his 'personal ' [ ] — was published in 1989; he was a Fellow of the where he was first published in 1957. Contents • • • • • • • • • Biography [ ] Early life, training, and medical career [ ] Frank Henry Netter was born in at and, and grew up wanting to be an artist.

In high school, he obtained a scholarship to study at the, doing so at night while continuing high school. After further studying at the and with private teachers, he began a commercial art career, quickly achieving success and doing work for the and. However, his family disapproved of a career as an artist and he agreed to study medicine. After getting a degree at the, he completed medical school at and a surgical internship at and attempted to begin practicing medicine. However, as Netter put it: 'This was in 1933—the depths of the Depression—and there was no such thing as medical practice.

If a patient ever wandered into your office by mistake, he didn't pay.' [ ] Early medical art career [ ] Having continued doing art during his medical training, including some work for his professors, he fell back on medical art to supplement his income. In particular, pharmaceutical companies began seeking Netter for illustrations to help sell new products, such as. Soon after a misunderstanding wherein Netter asked for $1,500 for a series of 5 pictures and an advertising manager agreed to and paid $1,500 each - $7,500 for the series - Netter gave up the practice of medicine.

Career with CIBA [ ] In 1936, the commissioned a small work from him, a fold-up illustration of a heart to promote the sale of. This proved hugely popular with physicians, and a reprint without the advertising copy was even more popular. Quickly following on the success of the fold-up heart, fold-up versions of other organs were produced. Netter then proposed that a series of pathology illustrations be produced. These illustrations were distributed to physicians as cards in a folder, with advertising for CIBA products on the inside of the folder, and were also popular with physicians.

CIBA then collected these illustrations in book form, producing the CIBA Collection of Medical Illustrations, which ultimately comprised 8 volumes (13 books). Beginning in 1948, CIBA also re-used illustrations by Netter in another series of materials to be given to physicians, the Clinical Symposia series. These were small magazine-like brochures that typically featured an extensive article on a medical condition, commonly with about a dozen of Netter's illustrations. This series was produced until at least the early 1990s. In 1989, Netter's Atlas of Human Anatomy was published, assembled from his previous paintings and correlated by updated diagrams.

CIBA's Medical Education Department (East Orange, NJ) filtered the paintings for printing, in an effort that The Big Green Books 'might appear more 'even' over time.' [ ] This sometimes resulted in a considerable reduction of color variation from the truly-unique originals. Horrible Histories Vicious Vikings Pdf more. Digital re-scanning of the originals continue to be published by the current copyright owner to the collection, Elsevier Medical Publishing.

Selected original paintings have been showcased internationally. Netter's career was presented in a commemorative video by Ciba-Geigy in 1988. Legacy [ ] In all, Netter produced nearly 4,000 illustrations, which have been included in countless publications.